Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– An interesting tidbit came to mind following conservative activist James O’Keefe’s arrest for allegedly participating in an attempt to tamper with phones at the New Orleans offices of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Let’s go back a few months: After O’Keefe released a video of ACORN workers in Baltimore[Read More…]
Opinion
How Will SCOTUS Decision Affect Corporate Media?
Commentary By Karl Frisch In 2004, the United Church of Christ produced a television commercial promoting its inclusive approach to organized faith. The ad showed two nightclub-style bouncers guarding the rope line of a church as they denied entry to a gay male couple, several people of color, and a[Read More…]
Does Fox News Coverage = GOP Campaign Contribution?
Commentary by Eric Boehlert With its open and aggressive cheerleading — not to mention on-air fundraising — for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown last week, Fox News crossed yet another threshold in its unabashed transformation into a purely political entity. Now completely turning its back on producing any semblance of independent[Read More…]
Fox News Volunteers For Scott Brown’s Campaign
Commentary By Jocelyn Fong Picking up where the network left off in 2009, Fox News jumped into its first political campaign of the year, this time setting its sights on the U.S. Senate to help elect Republican Scott Brown to the seat previously held by Democrat Ted Kennedy. Fox News[Read More…]
The Incredible Shallowness Of The Media’s Political Analysis
Commentary By Jamison Foser For a group of people who get paid to cover politics (and who regularly forgo serious policy coverage in favor of political analysis), reporters can be remarkably shallow — inept, even — in their assessments. For example, we need only to look back at Mark Halperin’s[Read More…]
Media Ignore Obama’s Accomplishments To Claim He Has ‘Little To Show For ’09 ‘
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In the weeks approaching President Obama’s first State of the Union address, some in the media have claimed that Obama has lacked accomplishments in his first year as president and thus, in the words of Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden, Obama has "little to show for ’09."[Read More…]
AARP Applauds Senate Rejection of Fast-Track Commission that Threatened Social Security, Medicare Benefits for Millions of Americans
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2010. AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement today after a vote in the U.S. Senate on a proposed fast-track debt commission: “On behalf of the association’s nearly 40 million members, AARP is relieved that the Senate rejected a provision that would likely have[Read More…]
I Laughed A Solid 15 Minutes at the Walmart Screaming Clown Commercial
Commentary So I was watching the New York Jets lose to the Indianapolis Colts Sunday when this commercial aired. I laughed a solid 15 minutes. Out loud. And I was alone. Enjoy the video. If you haven’t seen it yet, just watch and enjoy.
Step Back into a 1950s Valentines Day
In February, the 1950s Park Forest House Museum has a Valentines Day theme. The classroom is decorated for a 1950s Valentines Day party with vintage valentines and crepe paper candy baskets, and construction paper heart-shaped valentine “mailboxes” on each desk. Red honeycomb, puffy hearts are hung around the room. Vintage[Read More…]
PFHS Archivist’s Column February 2010
<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> In My Own Little Corner. Jane Nicoll excerpted from February 2010 Park Forest Historical Society Newsletter. A[Read More…]
