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Media & Politics

Nov 14, 2009: Recommended: ‘Fort Hood & the Perversion of Language…’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media & Politics , Opinion & Analysis
Jason Adams, a resident of Hudson, Wisconsin, USA, posted the best analysis I’ve read to date on the news coverage surrounding Major Nidal Malik Hassan’s alleged killing and wounding of U.S. soldiers and civilians at Forth Hood Texas, USA, on...

Sep 30, 2008: Foreign Policy Magazine's New Home
Comments: 0 | Categories: Foreign Affairs , Media & Politics
I see the Washington Post Co. has bought Foreign Policy magazine from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington, D.C. based think tank. See "FP: now brought to you by the Washington Post Company." According to Foreign Policy editor-in-chief...

Mar 17, 2008: Obama Forced to Walk a Tightrope as He Denounces Ex-Pastor
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media & Politics , Opinion & Analysis , Political Affairs
The Wall Street Journal Online's Suzanne Sataline and Douglas Belkin make important observations about sermons in many African-American churches in a March 17, 2996, post headlined "Blunt Sermons Rooted in Black Tradition." While the sermons of Mr. [Jeremiah] Wright, Sen....

Sep 11, 2005: Where Did Bush Get Phrase 'Compassionate Conservative'?
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While reading "A farewell after 60 Monitor years," Godfrey Sperling Jr.'s article in the September 6, 2005 edition of The Christian Science Monitor recounting his 60-years with the Boston-based paper, I ran across this tidbit: When George W. Bush first...

Aug 20, 2005: Is MSM Suffering Collateral Damage From Iraq War?
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Ron Hutcheson of Knight Ridder Newspapers asserted August 18, 2005 that, "As the battle for Iraq's future plays out half a world away, the American news media are caught in the crossfire at home." For more, see "Mainstream news media...

Aug 10, 2005: It Starts With a Small Crime
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Stephen Crockett at American Chronicle made this observation about the Valerie Plame Affair: Abuse of government power for partisan political purposes was at the root of the Watergate scandal. The collapse of the Nixon White House started with a simple...

Aug 8, 2005: Ebony and Jet Magazines Publisher John H. Johnson Dead at 87
Comments: 0 | Categories: Media & Politics
The National Political Observer offers condolences to the family of Ebony and Jet magazines publisher John H. Johnson, 87, who died August 8, 2005 here in Chicago. Here is the Johnson Publishing Company press release on his death. May he...

Aug 7, 2005: Did Army Archered Hang Around Too Long in the Gossip Business?
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Jeff Jarvis over at BuzzMachine comments on Jesse McKinley's "brief " New York Times "Week In Review piece sussing out the vaster meaning of gossip Army Archerd's retirement." "People magazine did it," he declared. "He quotes Jessica Coen of Gawker...

Aug 7, 2005: Begala Predicts Bush Will Pardon Rove
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Paul Begala predicts that President George W. Bush will pardon Karl Rove if he is indicted and convicted of deliberately blowing CIA operative Valerie Plame's' cover as an agent working on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) issues. The Bush Administration...

Aug 7, 2005: Can Newsweek's Ben Ladin Exclusive Hold Up Under Scrutiny?
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Will the Bush Administration force Newsweek to retract this headline in its August 15, 2005 issue? "Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away." Just asking.