Commentary by Eric Boehlert Smart newsrooms develop an ethics code to help journalists do their jobs well, and to create clear lines of demarcation for when inevitable conflicts arise. To its credit, National Public Radio operates under a wide-ranging ethics code that leaves little doubt about how its journalists should[Read More…]
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Who’s Behind the Right’s Base Closure Smear?
Commentary By Jamison Foser The right-wing media are accusing the Obama administration of playing politics with national security. But by using a trumped-up allegation peddled by a discredited former McCain aide to smear the White House, Obama’s critics are guilty of the politicization of the military they claim to denounce.[Read More…]
Glenn Beck and the Paranoid Style
Commentary By Simon Maloy "The modern right wing … feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The old American virtues have already been eaten away by[Read More…]
The Muppets Perform Bohemian Rhapsody
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Creating a ‘Gitmo North’ an Alarming Step, Says ACLU
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2009. The Obama administration announced today that it will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purpose of holding some of the detainees currently remaining at Guantánamo. Though the administration is leaving unsaid which detainees will be moved there and for what purposes, the information[Read More…]
Nonsense About Medical Marijuana and Teens
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2009. A new survey showing, among other things, a slight uptick in teen marijuana use, got considerable press yesterday and today. A widely-circulated Associated Press story, along with many other reports, included this claim: “The increase of teens smoking pot is partly because the national debate over[Read More…]
SEIU and LIUNA Support President Obama’s Emission Reduction Target and Demand a Fair Transition for Workers
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2009. Today, as world leaders seek a climate change agreement in Copenhagen, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) released a joint statement in support of President Barack Obama’s 17 percent carbon emissions reduction commitment. The unions also demanded[Read More…]
Will Federal Government Become More Open? Jury Still Out
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director We’re either on the verge of a new era in transparency in the federal government — or we’re not. On just his first full day in office, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama pledged that the public[Read More…]
The Persecution of Sarah Palin: Teflon in Convenient Book Form
Commentary By Terry Krepel Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti’s book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star lives up to its name — the author does indeed paint his subject as the victim of persecution by the "feral[Read More…]
The Washington Post’s Tiger Beat
Commentary By Jamison Foser There are important things going on in the world — climate change talks in Copenhagen, health care reform nearing its endgame, President Obama sending more troops to Afghanistan (and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize), and continued economic uncertainty, just to name a few. And yet The[Read More…]
