Jackie’s Quote of the Day at Summer’s End: ” Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Watterson BUSH BACK ON THE WAR PATH ISRAEL CONDEMNED FOR CLUSTER BOMBS NEWS 21 TRYING TO IMPROVE JOURNALISM Here We Go [...]
Yesterday, Mediachannel’s “Diamond” Dave Olson and I trekked over the Carnegie Corporation in a building over on Madison advertising over 40 surveillance cameras. Did we feel secure! We were there to meet media exec and consultant Merill Brown who is helping to shape an innovative media Fellows program at four major universities to produce innovative [...]
PRESS THE PRESS—FORGET IT Stephen writes in response to my article on the Iraq War: ” I totally agree with most of your article ‘America is losing Iraq: is anybody watching?’ . Where I disagree is your closing comment as follows: “Now is the time for all good news consumers to come to the aid [...]
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