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Mon, 26 Nov 2007
The War Expert
Wrong, wrong, wrong again. But the media still want Ken Pollack
By Posted at 01:00 PM Comments (10)
On July 30, as the debate over the Bush administration’s “surge” in Iraq was heating up, The New York Times ran an op-ed article that enthusiastically endorsed it. Titled A WAR WE MIGHT JUST WIN, it was written by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, both of the Brookings Institution, and, reading through it, I grew increasingly irritated. Part of... Read More
Tue, 10 Jul 2007
Memorial Day Mush
It’s time for the networks to get real about the war
By Posted at 10:45 AM Comments (1)
As is their custom, the national TV news programs spent the Memorial Day weekend offering tributes to U.S. soldiers and their families. CNN introduced us to Marine Lieutenant Andrew Kinard, “an officer in the true tradition of the Marines,” who, despite having lost all of his left leg and most of his right one, had not lost his sense of... Read More
Thu, 1 Mar 2007
Missing Middle
That gaping hole in our national news report is called the Midwest.
By Posted at 08:30 AM
In early January, more than 6,000 journalists from around the world descended on Detroit’s Cobo Center for the annual Detroit auto show. For three days, they attended parties and briefings, interviewed executives and engineers, and participated in the annual ritual of picking their own personal winners and losers from among the fifty or so new car models on display.... Read More
