AXIS OF EVIL:* MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY*YOUR LETTERS Who is in your “Axis of Evil”? Are you one of the protesters preparing to challenge what you consider the evil empire? It is the World Economic Forum. If you are part of the Forum in-group, you probably include the protesters themselves. If you were on the air at [...]
STATE OF THE MEDIA *FBI AND CNN* THE ARAFAT DEBATE “Good morning, my fellow Americans. I am here to deliver my annual State of the Media, address, and that state is not good.” Oh, how I long for someone of great stature to give such an address — and have it taken seriously. Today, we [...]
Bill O’Reilly’s Fallacies *Punditry Trumps Journalism* Chomsky Responds A serious “fallacy” to say the Chinese, on the eve of President Bush’s second state of the Union Speech, is undermining US policy. And what is that, you may ask? What fallacy? “A signed commentary in the influential official journal Outlook Weekly has slammed the “Bush doctrine” [...]
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