Month: May 2005

“It’s okay to correct the president – just not in front of all the TV cameras.” —Bush, speaking at the White House Economic Conference, after being corrected by a participant, Dec. 15, 2004.

An explosive new study of American television coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be released at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday, May 9. The study is a follow-up to a similar report released two weeks ago on The...

Cross-posted at Daily Kos As I’m writing this the Quick Vote on CNN.com is "Should the man who found a severed finger in a pint of custard have returned the digit right away?" The top story at ABCNews.com is...

Cross-posted at DailyKos.Robert McNamara in this month’s Foreign Policy: At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily...

‘Suffer the little children to come unto me’? Intelligent design? Respected RC Editor of America magazine sacked on Vatican orders? The Christian Wrong? What the Hell (viz) is going on? This weird story in the Brit...