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People's Sexiest Man Alive issue is out (Matt Damon?) and inside, there's a feature on "Sexy at Any Age," with pictures of men from 20 to 60. The media's represented, with CNN's Anderson Cooper representing the age of 40, and at 59....Bryant Gumbel. What else is up today?
Anchoress's Anecdotes Demonstrate Ongoing Negative Impact of Old Media
The Anchoress, a three-time Weblog Awards finalist and 2007 Catholic Blog Awards Winner (congratulations!) in the Best Political/Social Commentary category (scroll down at link to see it), delivered a cold but necessary shower earlier this evening to those of us who are tempted to exaggerate or overstate the impact New Media is having on most Americans. I'll bet that a lot of us can relay similar…
Weekend Captionfest
Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff winks after asking planted question on climate change to Hillary Clinton at a town hall in Newton, Iowa on November 8th.
Sean Penn: Hugo Chavez Is 'Much More Positive' for Venezuela Than Nega
Dictator-groupie Sean Penn told Australia's The Age that Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez is “much more positive for Venezuela than he is negative” and the Chavez-crafted constitution is “a very beautiful document.” Yes, that's the same leader who is a student of the Robert Mugabe School of Economics, shut down a TV station that criticized him and just installed himself El Presidente for life. …
On PBS, Brokaw Says No One's Ever Found He Had an On-Air Bias
Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw took the publicity tour on his book on the 1960's to PBS’s Tavis Smiley show, where he discussed how he was "in a rage" when a friend of his died in Vietnam, although he initially believed in it when John F. Kennedy insisted in a domino theory in southeast Asia, a premise that "quickly came apart." Brokaw agreed with Smiley that there were many parallels between…
CNN Includes Conservative Questions in Democrats’ Debate
Surprisingly, CNN, during its Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, asked a numbers of questions that conservatives might propose on Thursday night. During the first hour of the debate, moderators Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, and John Roberts asked a total of 13 questions (not counting follow-up questions) on a number of issues. Of these, five could be considered to be "conservative."…