No longer tied to his desk with a sock in his mouth, Van is now freed to do what he does best: inspire and energize groups around the country. Student groups and labor groups and small business groups and middle class Americans everywhere who are losing jobs and losing homes and losing hope. He’s free [...]
Before getting into the President’s Weekly, I hope you will take a look at “Critical Condition” which was highlighted last night on “Bill Moyers Journal” (PBS). “Critical Condition” is a documentary from the series P.O.V. (also PBS). It is one of the rare television moments during this health insurance reform debate that we get the [...]
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: “And that’s the way it is.” To me, that encapsulates the newsman’s highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. Walter Cronkite [...]
I’m looking forward to meeting Alex Nicholson next weekend. So far we’ve only conversed by email. Alex knows five languages. [I'm jealous.] And he is an Arabic linguist. Alex served in the U.S. Army during the height of 9-11 and its fall out wars in Iraq and Afgahanistan. But Alex was discharged in 2006 because…he [...]
It’s fascinating how words taken from one cast’s political script, and given to another cast of actors, takes on a whole new different meaning. And the most disturbing difference is, this second cast always gets a longer and more frequent airtime run. Jon Stewart sets the stage. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – [...]
FYI: Spew cue at 3:15 into video. Maybe tomorrow I’ll switch topic to cupcakes.
I couldn’t have said [this, then] this better myself.
“There’s no news here.” That’s what I heard from a local television producer while I was hydrating myself at the Starbucks counter in downtown Denver. For me, that’s true. I haven’t watched any TV, radio or even read much news online or on the page since arriving in Denver for the DNC convention. “What do [...]
