“HAPPY” MEMORIAL DAY “THE GREATEST GENERATION” BAY AREA ART OUTRAGE Call me obsessed. It is a holiday and I should be resting, chilling out, tuning out the news and my own news blues. At least I did spend a few hours alongside the Hudson yesterday not far from what we still call Ground Zero. The [...]
UNFACTORED MEDIA SELF-CRITICISM TERROR FEARS I was sitting there, just minding my own business yesterday when an e-mail comes in from “THE FACTOR.” It wasn’t something I had factored into my day. It asks if I was available to come on the air last night on Fox News Channel factor forum with Bill O’ Reilly. [...]
THE WANTED SEVEN ISRAEL’S NEW PUSH NY TIMES MEA CULPA When I grew up, the number seven was considered lucky. I loved films like “The Magnificent Seven.” (and John Sayles’ “The Secaucus Seven.”) Now I go to bed fearing the most wanted Terror Seven, 7 evil looking suspects who we are told who represent “a [...]
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