Archive for June, 2008
You need to understand what is going on in Congress with FISA. Democrats and Republicans are uniting to pass legislation that will allow our government to spy on us without any oversight, and to give immunity to the telecom companies that helped them in order to keep details of the programs from ever coming out [...]
Disaster scenes in our own country are becoming all too-familiar to Americans. The dramatic photos show people forced out of their homes seeking shelter, massive property destruction and often death. The recent pictures coming out of Iowa City last week call up memories of Hurricane Katrina but with an all-white cast of characters. These weather-related [...]
Tim Russert died today, which is front page news on all the networks and papers. My condolences to his family for the loss of a loved one. For the rest of us, I can only hope that his removal will allow a real journalist to occupy the position that he wasted for so long. Tim [...]
If you haven’t watched the HBO movie “Recount” yet, you should. It is a painful, sometimes funny, and fairly accurate reminder of the chain of events that led to the installation of George W. Bush as President in 2000. I will never forget the horror with which we all watched the events unfold at the [...]
On Dan Rather’s excellent news show for HDNet, “Dan Rather Reports,” he tackles the kind of investigative reporting that used to regularly grace the network evening news, but would never pass muster at any of the networks now for fear of offending an advertiser. In this piece, Rather makes a case that the new Boeing [...]
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