Archive for August, 2006


30
Aug

Katrina Was Also A Media Failure

And yes I wept again, as I watched the conclusion of Spike Lee’s opus 4 Act Requiem on Katrina on HBO last night and realized again how much our media WAS NOT reporting this past year. Somehow we could track the daily body count in Iraq, but not the day to day betrayal and […]


30
Aug

A New Bushian Broadcast Scandal

SCANDAL: BROADCAST CHIEF A SLEAZE, REPORTS NY TIMES
” WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — State Department investigators have found that the head of the agency overseeing most government broadcasts to foreign countries has used his office to run a “horse racing operation” and that he improperly put a friend on the payroll, according to a summary of […]


30
Aug

Your Insights and Anger and Interests

EF writes:
”Pity poor John Karr, who now finds himself in the lonely position of Pluto. Once heralded as the confessed killer, he is now to be dropped and forgotten, a mere amalgamation of cosmic waste. So much for champagne, roast duck and a business class flight. Will he be able to return to his teaching […]

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