Commentary by Eric Boehlert If James von Brunn weren’t in a locked security ward at Southeast General Hospital in Washington, D.C., and awaiting trial for the murder of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the 88-year-old racist and neo-Nazi might have taken comfort from listening to Lou[Read More…]
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Media Matters: Captain Lou and the Birther Brigade
Commentary By Karl Frisch Leave it to Lou Dobbs: If there’s a right-wing conspiracy theory out there floating around on the Internets, he’ll latch onto it like a pit bull. He may be past his prime, but he just won’t let go. It must be tough for CNN to look[Read More…]
I Guess You Could Say She’s Been ‘Sotomayored’
Commentary By Karl Frisch Long before the pundit-driven 24-hour news cycle began poisoning the media landscape, the 1987 confirmation hearings of Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork played out in front of a national television audience. Though CNN broadcast the hearings live, the network was not yet available in many[Read More…]
Saradise Lost: How Alaska Bloggers Dethroned Sarah Palin
Commentary by Eric Boehlert It turns out that blogger Phil Munger hears all his big, breaking Sarah Palin news in the kitchen of his house, which overlooks Neklason Lake and sits just 10 miles from the center of Wasilla, the Southcentral Alaska town where Palin once served as mayor. On[Read More…]
Illinois FY10 State Budget: Bad News, Period
Commentary By State Rep. Greg Harris (D – 13th District) If you are hoping to find good news about our FY10 State Budget, you will not find it here. Illinois now joins the rest of the country in having approved a new budget for our new fiscal year, but there[Read More…]
Remembering the Day I Met Walter Cronkite
Commentary By Gary Kopycinski "Youth is wasted on the young." – George Bernard Shaw That’s what Mr. O’Neill used to tell us in grade school. It was one of his favorite sayings. We’re told the quote originated with George Bernard Shaw, but, as far as I’m concerned, Mr. O’Neill said[Read More…]
Recovering the Mental Health of Illinois
Commentary By Mark Heyrman and N’Dana Carter The Illinois legislature recently called for a special session after Governor Quinn vetoed the proposed “doomsday budget” passed by the House and Senate. This budget would have drastically cut mental health services. State legislators now have the chance to reconsider their priorities and[Read More…]
Did Michael Jackson Doctor Violate Medical Law on Larry King Live?
Dr. Arnie Klein on CNN. (Click image to watch video on CNN) Commentary Amidst the constant barrage of news reports seeking to cover every possible aspect of the late Michael Jackson’s life and death, one Hollywood doc is coming under fire from others in the profession for comments he made[Read More…]
Mika Brzezinski’s ‘Real Americans’ Elitism
CommentaryBy Jamison Foser Even after landslide victories for the Democrats in the 2008 and 2006 elections (not to mention the fact that a Democrat has won the popular vote in four of the past five presidential elections), MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski still insists that “real Americans” are conservative. Brzezinski says the[Read More…]
Insider Dinners with News Outlets Leave the Public Hungry
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director The general notion is not really open to dispute today that the news media of tomorrow will be very different from the news media of yesterday — but the specifics are. The challenges of operating a[Read More…]
