Today, I read a post on TPM suggesting that the Pigford Settlement could’ve been a second target for right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and his like in addition to the NAACP (for their criticism of the Tea Party leadership for tolerating racism within their ranks). …Andrew Breitbart’s timing of the release of the grossly distorted video [...]
There are two things that happen when a show goes off the air. One is you quit and the other is somebody from the network knocks on your door and says, ‘Stop doing this.’ – Carol Burnett, actress, comedian For veteran journalist Helen Thomas, it was both. Yesterday, Thomas, the first woman to be admitted [...]
Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on capping the oil pipe as well as the lack of confidence in the administration’s ability to bring BP to [...]
This morning, “Good Morning America” brought in Diane Sawyer for an update on the explosion inside the Upper Big Branch mine owned by the Richmond, VA-based Massey Energy company. Twenty five people died in the mine; 4 were missing at the time of this report. Rescue workers were still searching. This is being described as [...]
The final vote on health care reform will take place tonight. All the procedural voting is done and it appears that the House Democrats have their minimum votes to pass the bill with the sounding of the gavel perhaps the same one held by Representative John Dingell (D-MI) when Medicare passed in 1965. This health [...]
I had to rip this one off from the front page of E-Notes in its entirety. He probably posted it after my little anxiety email I slipped in his mailbox yesterday evening. This analysis of news media “calls” on elections was conducted by Black Box Voting.org, the group run by Bev Harris based in Washington [...]
Meet Nexi. I was introduced to her via a CBS News special report on American Creativity and innovation – “Where America Stands.” Nexi was born in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. She is part of an on-going project to develop robots that can help out in the home and probably a few [...]
While the “Today Show” was trotting out another Tiger Woods “transgression,” Geoge Stephanopoulis was transitioning into his new schedule as the co-host for ABC’s “Good Morning America.” And I have to say, I thought George looked pretty good next to Robin. And I kinda like the new under-hyped tone of the morning show. It was [...]
This morning I decided to watch the “Today” show. One of the top stories was an interview with police officer Kimberly Munley, the heroine of the Foot Hood shooting. She was credited for taking down Major Hasan after being shot 4 times herself. This morning Officer Munley was joined by her husband, father, doctor, and [...]
From my sister. And be sure to check out the Pew Research Center for People and the Press’ report on how the public evaluates the acuracy of the news media. The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and [...]
