28
Dec
Readers: Share your picks for the worst reported stories of the year.
BUSH DEFIED COURT’S REJECTIONS
BOLIVIA’S NEW PRESIDENT SPEAKS
YOUR PICKS FOR MISSING STORIES OF 2005
A police expert on CNN claims that one fifth of the American people—20%–are coping with mental problems. The news seems filled with mental cases while the radio is overloaded with wingnuts raving […]
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28
Dec
REMEMBERING NEIL POSTMAN
The insightful media reporter and critic Aaron Barnhart of TVBarn.com has an excellent piece on the year on television carried by Knight Ridder:
”A review of the year in television must begin with its most significant milestone: the 20th anniversary of the publication of “Amusing Ourselves to Death,’’ Neil Postman’s laser beam of a […]
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28
Dec
Eugene Duran wrotes about the money supply:
”Danny, Honestly, economics of this scale are not completely understood by me but I’ll do my best. On November 10, 2005 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve announced that they will no longer publish M-3 money aggregate. M-3 is different from M-2 and M-1 in that it […]
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