TRICK OR TREAT? REMAKING IRAQ’S MEDIA TIMES “UNDERWHELMED” BY TV Trick or Treat? For a country that has been tricked, Halloween represents a respite. It’s the day that everyone can be someone else, dress as their fantasy, mock their pretensions and make fun of their enemies. Neighbors welcome children, whom they tend to ignore the [...]
MOGULS ON PARADE REVEALED: THE FOX NEWS “BIBLE” THE PENTAGON’S COMMISSARS California may be on fire, Iraq in turmoil, Ariel Sharon under investigation, and President Bush speaking in tongues, but many of my fellow New Yorkers are obsessed by one thing and one thing only: what to wear for tomorrow’s round of Halloween parties and [...]
ABC DEBUNKS CONSPIRACY THEORIES DISSECTOR DEBUNKS DEBUNKERS FAIR FINDS FAULT The crime of the century has been solved. AP reports that ABC News has solved the Kennedy Assassination. At last, we learn, for the umpteenth time that the Warren Commission was right. Lee Harvey Oswald done it! There can be no doubt. This comes on [...]
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