About the ongoing Wikipedia on Katrina, media blogger Dan Gilmor writes: By many standards, the Wikipedia entry on Hurricane Katrina is an example of journalism. It doesn’t have first-hand accounts, true. But it’s...
Read MoreAs you arrive into this sleepy little town you are greeted by a huge billboard welcoming you to Crawford The home of George and Laura Bush with their faces smiling at you. What a creepy feeling that was.Take a right on 5th,...
Read MoreIn the late 70s, having just bought the new refrigerator for our house in Mobile where Spouse, a USCG officer, had just been transferred, it was time to board up, sedate the horse in his trailer, hang all the hay bags he could...
Read MoreAnother media person, Reuters TV soundman Waleed Khaled was killed in Iraq. I heard it described on Air America this morning. The man was wearing a press pass and two of the five sniper’s bullets hit him right through his...
Read MoreFormer C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on “Meet the Press,” that U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that “we’d all be thrilled,”...
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