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Living and Dying with Character and Integrity
Professor Randy Pausch, whose 'Last Lecture' made him a YouTube phenomenon loses his battle with cancer.
ABC's The View Plays Kissyface with Katy Perry
The ladies ask some hard questions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but gush over the lesbian-experimenting pop star.
Susan Estrich: 'Arrogance Will Not Help Get Obama Elected
After telling her readers on July 16 how nervous she was about Barack Obama's chances to win the White House this November, Michael Dukakis's former campaign manager, Susan Estrich, was clearly less impressed with the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee's world tour than most folks that consider themselves journalists.In a column published Friday entitled "Arrogance Will Not Help Get Obama…
AP: Obama's 'Superstar Charisma' Promises to 'Redeem' America
Before moving on from “Barack Obama's Magical Media Tour” of the past week, a look at an Associated Press story so over the top that the Washington Posts's Howard Kurtz on Friday cited it as an example of coverage which “bordered on gushing,” though in this case there really was no “bordered.” In the July 22 dispatch in advance of Obama's arrival in Berlin, “Obamamania in full flight ahead of…
Couric: ‘Glimmer of Hope’ in Israel’s Agreement to Release Terro
When the Israeli government and the terrorist group Hezbollah carried out a prisoner release agreement in which Israel released five Lebanese prisoners while Hezbollah released the bodies of two Israeli soldiers who had been killed, there was a substantial contrast in the way the broadcast network evening newscasts reported the story. While ABC’s Charles Gibson and Simon McGregor-Wood reported on…
In Rochester, Almost Half of 7th and 8th Graders Fail Exam -- Even Whe
Given how much grief charter schools and other creative initiatives get from the government-school establishment if they don't instantly turn at risk kids into Einsteins, along with the hounding of homeschoolers that seems to be on the rise, this story shouldn't be allowed to fall through the cracks, or remain confined to its local area. Last Sunday's Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story (HT…
Kurtz: Is Journalism Giving One Candidate Twice the Coverage
On Sunday, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz continued his mission of exposing the absurd amount of coverage the media are giving to Barack Obama as compared to John McCain.On CNN's "Reliable Sources," Kurtz amazingly asked his guests, "Where does journalism get off saying it's OK to give one candidate twice as much coverage -- this week, I would say four times as much coverage -- as the other…
Penn & Teller: Al Gore is an EPA -- 'Egregiously Pushy A**hole
I bet you thought EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency.Not according to the comedy team Penn & Teller, who during Thursday's "Being Green" installment of their hit television series on Showtime, tore Nobel Laureate Al Gore apart while referring to him as an "Egregiously Pushy A**hole."To be frank, that's just one marvelous snippet from Thursday's evisceration of all things related…