CNN proves that it makes the news and that people can’t think for themselves

I’m sitting at the airport waiting for weather to clear up in NYC so I can fly from here through there to my destination.  I may have said before that I don’t have television at home.  The one (dis)advantage of hanging out in the airport lobby is that I have an opportunity to catch up [...]

You can’t lie in politics and expect to have people’s confidence – ORLY?

Do we really care? I mean honestly, do we REALLY care? Here’s the thing, people – everyone has a private life, everyone has a love life. It should not be our business. If the media accused you publicly of having an extramarital affair, and you were a politician in the limelight with a wife battling [...]

Hearing too much about Obama or McCain? Maybe it’s the wrong type of coverage.

This article, titled “Obama: Time to cover the other guy?” is attempting to establish through a lit review of recent publications in other news sources that we are sick of hearing about Obama and need to hear more about McCain.  MSNBC has taken information from the Boston Globe, which says: Barack Obama may be the [...]

Hipster racism and plain old racism

Last week there was a furor over whether the cover of the New Yorker was satirical or racist. Many people went with satirical, because it’s not as comfortable to vote for racist. Or, because they genuinely thought it was funny. The one person that I know who thought it was funny is a loyal reader [...]