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…]
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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…]
Haiti: Doctors Without Borders Teams Adapting to Needs on the Ground
HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2010. The core medical activities in Haiti are still very much focused on treating people who were injured in the January 12 earthquake, with surgery continuing and post-operative care expanding. But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Emergency Medical Coordinator Rosa Crestani explains, there is a new[Read More…]
Historic Park in Haiti’s Capital Overflows with Quake Survivors
Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–26 Jan 2010 – There is surely no more symbolic site in Haiti than Champs de Mars, Port-au-Prince’s main park and place of political power. On the park’s west side sits the now ruined Presidential Palace. To the north is the Dessalines barracks—which has been reduced to a façade—named[Read More…]
5,000-Bed Hospital to Increase Haitian Medical Capacity
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 26, 2010 – U.S. and international relief workers in Haiti are developing a 5,000-bed hospital in the capital of Port-au-Prince to increase medical capacity as the country struggles to recover two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck. Among other facilities, the hospital will accept patients from the floating hospital[Read More…]
Senator Burris Introduces Resolution Honoring Northwestern University
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2010. U.S. Senator Roland W. Burris today announced that he has sponsored a Senate resolution to congratulate Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine for its 150 years of commitment to advancing science and improving health. For decades, the Feinberg School has been at the forefront of the[Read More…]
Haitian Leadership Vital to Post-Quake Response – UN Relief Officials
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 January 2010 – Haitians must have leadership of the post-earthquake recovery process, top United Nations humanitarian officials stressed today as they reported that aid agencies are making important progress in reaching people affected by the disaster. Significant steps forward are being made in the areas of water and[Read More…]
After Five Days Buried Alive in Haiti, UN Worker Recalls Moment of Rescue
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 January 2010 – For five days, Jens Kristensen felt like he was living in a coffin. Under the twisted mountain of rubble of the United Nations headquarters in Haiti, the aid worker was enclosed in a five-foot long space so dark that it made no difference if his[Read More…]
