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The April Fools' Awards
by Ed Naha
Ben Franklin once wrote, "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." To Ben's list, I would add "and political buffoons." Now, technically, April Fools' Day has come and gone. However, the American political scene has provided us with so many jokes this month that every day has seemed April Fools' Day. So, let us honor the fools of April (thus far), in the first Annual April Fools' Awards! | After The ABC News Debacle: How To Change Media - Why Making Media The Issue Is Crucial For Saving Democracy
by Danny Schechter
How ironic that in the same week that the National Association of Broadcasters gave actor Tim Robins a platform to challenge media gatekeepers to open the airwaves to more perspectives ABC NEWS gave us all a classic example of how a network can dumb down a presidential debate and turn it into a disgraceful hit job rather than an enlightening hit. | Is the Sky Falling?
by Maud Muller
As an older American, I find myself ashamed at what this nation has become. While many people mindlessly continue to repeat the mantra that America is the greatest nation in the world, it is hard for me to understand why they still believe this. I love my country, but my husband and I now experience sadness instead of the pride when we hear the National Anthem. | "21st Century Bull Connors" Stand In Way of Progress in Florida's Fields
by Jeffrey Buchanan
This past Tuesday, Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Bernie Sanders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on modern day slavery, persistent labor abuses and stagnant sub-poverty wages facing farmworkers in Florida's tomato fields. Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress banned the transatlantic slave trade and 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, America is still dealing with human trafficking of workers on our soil and an agricultural industry dependent on unspeakable labor practices standing in the way of human rights and social justice. | Barack Obama - Subplots of Operation Board Games - Part I
by Evelyn Pringle
The investigation dubbed "Operation Board Games," into the influence peddling within the cesspool of corruption that encompasses Illinois politicians from both major parties, has developed into multiple subplots, many of which feature Barack Obama.Therefore, Obama should start bidding for the starring role in the movie that is sure to follow the criminal trials involved in this case because he has absolutely no chance of winning the White House, even if the leaders of the Democratic party allow this sorry charade to carry on and his name appears on the ballot. | To Bob Franken, Who Defends Stephanopoulos and Gibson
by Brent Budowsky
Bob, with all due respect, if you think that first hour of oppo-research questioning reflects the news of the day of real Americans in the real world, I would like to know how many real Americans you actually talk to who agree with you about this.I am talking not about cable studios or lunch dates with George and Charlie, but Americans who have lost their jobs, or who are hungry, or who fear they may be foreclosed upon tomorrow, or the 300,000 veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq we learned yesterday will return home with major psychological disorders, or what we learned from the homeless veterans’ association this week about a problem we are not dealing with, which is getting worse. | "Pull My Finger" Journalism on ABC
by Bob Patterson
The questions used Wednesday night echoed topics that had been covered relentlessly by conservative talk show hosts, but when ABC visited those subjects some would see it as a manifestation of quality journalists being undeterred in the quest for answers to questions that were crucial to the selection of the next President. | If the Democrats Lose Another Presidential Election, This Time It Won't Be Their Fault
by Russ Wellen
In the previous two presidential election campaigns, Al Gore and John Kerry, starched at the collar to begin with, ran campaigns prudent to the point of pussyfooting. Both Democrats attempted to court the corporate interests that helped bring Bill Clinton success. Meanwhile, those who had sought to take it away, the religious right, were given a wide berth. | The Fat Bush Theory
by Gail Collins
George W. Bush says we’re on track to meet the nation’s goals for curbing global warming.I see some hands waving out there. Didn’t know we had any goals for curbing global warming? Where were you in 2002 when the president put us on the road toward reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012? | Top Bush Aides Pushed for Guantánamo Torture
by Richard Norton-Taylor
America’s most senior general was “hoodwinked” by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.0419 01 1 | Probe Sought of Whether Israel Targeted Media Crew
by Reuters
A leading human rights group called on Friday for an independent investigation into the death of a Reuters cameraman and other civilians in Gaza this week, saying Israeli forces may have targeted the media.0419 03 1Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, a 23-year-old Palestinian, was killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday while covering events in the enclave for the international news agency. He had been filming an Israeli tank dug in about 1,000 yards away. |
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