Archives for April 2007
The Democratic presidential hopefuls staged their first debate, and it was not Thursday Night at the Fights. It seems they want to present a more-or-less amicable style to political campaigning against which the American voters can see a stable Democratic Party that has differences, but is not fractious to the point where people say “these […]
The media has a new story, and they’re milking it for all the ratings they can get. Wolf Blitzer stands in front of a four-screen video wall that rotates images of wounded students and cops standing behind trees instead of moving toward the gunmen. He plays an from-the-seen audio and counts down the gunshots aloud […]
George W. Bush has placed a help wanted ad: he needs a “czar” to run both of his failed wars: Afghanistan’s just war that he neglected and now is in nearly as chaotic a situation as before the Taliban took power in 1996; and the Iraqi Murder Expedition. While Mr. Bush continues to put on […]
The blogosphere has become a powerful entity to an information-hungry citizenship across the world. While in the West we may feel news-and-information saturated, most of the rest of the world—nearer to 70%—do not have the right to criticize their government leaders, nor have free press rights, which again mean no rights to criticize the government […]
