Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center The sports adage “It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game” has a unique link and application to how the future of a free press plays out in the 21st century. As news organizations[Read More…]
Opinion
Why Would United States Senators Vote to Protect Corporations Over Rape Victims?
Commentary By Bill Goldberg In 2005, a female employee of KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq, was drugged and gang raped by several of her male colleagues. This was done after she reported several times the sexist behavior of many of the men. When she reported the rape to her[Read More…]
Irony Is Dead: Limbaugh Threatens Legal Action over False Statements
Commentary by Eric Boehlert Actually, the fact-free talker is threatening to sue journalists who report what Limbaugh claims are falsehoods regarding him. Hmm, suddenly, Limbaugh doesn’t like being on the other end of misinformation? Suddenly he’s demanding folks back up and source all their information, in a way that he[Read More…]
Christopher Columbus and The Myth of ‘America’
Happy Columbus Day Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two … May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you. Wishing you a great Columbus Day – Columbus Day greeting card Commentary By Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola t r u t h o[Read More…]
Cheerleading For Christ: Not In Public Schools
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar The varsity cheerleaders at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School are getting their 15 minutes in the news media spotlight this week. Unfortunately, much of the sound-bite coverage may serve only to fuel the ignorance and strife over[Read More…]
Pennsylvania Finally Gets a Budget, but the Fix is a Real Gamble
Blog Commentary From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Gov. Ed Rendell ended one of the most contentious statehouse conflicts in recent history when he signed a $27.8 billion spending plan last night, the 101st day of the nation’s longest budget impasse. The plan cuts overall spending by 1 percent while it adds[Read More…]
TNR Should Apologize For Promoting McCaughey’s Lies
Commentary By Jamison Foser No Apology When it became clear that Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke fabricated the story for which she and the paper were honored, Washington Post executive editor Benjamin Bradlee apologized to the Pulitzer advisory board, and the prize was withdrawn. When The Boston Globe[Read More…]
Right Again Makes Anti-American Ass of Itself Following Obama’s Nobel Win
Commentary By Karl Frisch On Friday, the nation awoke to the news that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to President Barack Obama. "I am both surprised and deeply humbled," Obama said that morning. "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as[Read More…]
President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: It’s About Hope
(PHOTO: ENEWSPF) Commentary The news of President Barack Obama has circulated and percolated throughout the world for just over three hours now. I’m not even taking a look at what anyone on the far right is saying at this point. No doubt the right wingnuts now have to figure out[Read More…]
All Aboard! The Right’s Fox News Gravy Train Rolls On
Commentary By Karl Frisch Since President Obama took office, Fox News has been acting more like the propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee than a legitimate news outlet. Back in March, Fox News vice president of programming Bill Shine described his network as the "voice of opposition [to Obama][Read More…]
