Spelling bees are a vulgar spectacle masquerading as education. The ability to properly spell guerdon is a cheap parlor trick demonstrating the most mechanistic and trivial expression of intelligence.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
On the one hand, I considered Scott McClellan's revelations better late than never, but then upon further consideration, I began to become angry. Yes,...
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
There are civil society initiatives in Palestine, but in reading the mainstream media we are to believe that there is nothing besides the corruption of the Palestinian Authority and the militancy of Hamas.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Would it have been better if he dramatically stepped to the podium one day and said, "We have been doing an organized propaganda campaign to deceive the American people and I resign!"?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
McClellan's revelations make it worth looking back at what I called last year, the "most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq."
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living
No matter how nutty or surgically altered, real human beings can be counted on to (generally) have the right amount of body parts in the right places and in the right proportions. Not so in Photoshop land.
Joe Vogel | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
You simply do not joke about the assassination of a United States Senator and probable Democratic presidential nominee. You also do not deliberately identify him with a terrorist.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the plight of security guards working for a company called Inter-Con, a contractor at Kaiser Permane...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media
The ad funded by "Women Count" counts every woman -- as long as she is married. I wonder, are single women also invisible to Hillary?
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
Pundits missed the two best kept secrets about Appalachia: it is far from homogeneous and has been a burning ground of change for the past 250 years.
Aaron Greenspan | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
One has to wonder what exactly is wrong with Glenn Beck. I don't particularly care that he identifies himself as a conservative. The problem, I think, is that he doesn't actually know anything.
Hugh Hamilton | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
The power of books is in their content, not in their print wrapper. But the history of media is the story of evolution and survival, so books are likely to survive in some form beyond a conversation piece.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media
BusinessWeek is updating a cover story it did three years ago on how the impact of blogs is changing the media landscape and asked me to weigh in. He...
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.19.2008 | Entertainment
When Robert Downey Jr., the inherently ironic leading man, arrives on the scene in the Marvel Comics blockbuster Iron Man, you immediately wonder how are you're going to end up liking this hipster merchant of death.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Just recently I wrote about the new Evangelical Manifesto, of which I was a signatory. It's been interesting to see the news coverage that followed it...
Politico | Kenneth Vogel | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent Barack Obama, but at the media. On the c...
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
An administration that has foreclosed on the American Dream cares as much about our homeowners as it did about the victims of Katrina.
Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Do you think for a minute that a large corporation would allow any kind of pro-labor stories to be carried on news media that it owns?
Josh Silver | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
The Senate's vote reflects growing awareness -- in Congress and with average Americans -- of the perils of concentrated media ownership.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
It's good to see that famed war reporter Joe Galloway is hitting back at attempts to embroil him in the Pentagon's "media generals" propaganda scanda...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
It took one straight week of non-stop political commentary for me to finally realize how cable news had not only driven me crazy, but just how much it was negatively impacting politics as well.
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PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
Gary Stager | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media