Month: September 2007

NPR: Transforming into a Public Media Company

The Knight Foundation has given a $1.5 million grant to help NPR increase its expansion into digital news. The investments intend to speed the news industry’s digital transformation and accelerate NPR’s...

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Vichy Dems and the New World Order

Is it time to start a dis-loyal opposition yet? And I don’t mean Unity ’08. I’m afraid we won’t win back our America by jotting off a vicious email or winning an intellectual debate. You might have...

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Iraq Costs Half a Mil a Minute

The war is costing a little bit of money: CHICAGO, Sept. 21 — The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes...

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Obama and Clinton’s Down Ticket Influence

I don’t like writing about the presidential race. But I do have to comment on this: Conventional wisdom dictates that Democratic voters are thrilled with their choices for president, bursting at the seams to rally behind...

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