The gaping disconnect between newspaper and television journalism is on full display in the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war controversy. Television, and cable news in particular, would have us believe that the story is about posting 90,000 documents on the Internet and not what the documents themselves say. Television would have us believe that the Pentagon’s outrage [...]
Read More...————————————————————— Is it possible we’ve outgrown our politicians and their media cronies? Is it possible they’ve died and don’t know it? I have a hunch, based on the kind of casual conversations we all have from time to time, that many of us are fed up with the kind of gotcha politics that cable news [...]
Read More...Every child betrayed by an adult—that would include the church’s thousands if not millions of victims—instinctively at some fathomless depth understands the Deepwater Horizon tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico… …understands because the child has been cleaning up the mess for the rest of his or her life, listening to adults lie and mislead and [...]
Read More...There is an unsettling similarity between the recent bank crisis and the unfolding oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. In both cases exploitative industries had carte blanche to stuff money in their pockets without having to prove to anyone that they were prepared for trouble ahead. Congress is mulling over 2,615 pages of [...]
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