What is a news story?

You know what I haven’t heard much about lately…the “left-wing media.” Newt certainly hasn’t been talking about it and he was one of the most vocal critics. Santorum, Romney, and Paul don’t care; they’re getting their coverage; it’s not all good, but the coverage is there. I guess that radical left-wing media group must have [...]

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Who really runs this country?

Colonel Gadhafi’s 42-year dictatorship appears about to crumble. John McCain (R – Arizona) and Phil Gramm (R – Texas) publicly congratulated France, Great Britain, and NATO, and omitted any reference to the part played by their own Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama. This just shows you have far we have come as a country. Congressmen from the [...]

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Parochialism at home

“If it happens west of the Mississippi,” you don’t hear about it. The speaker was Juli, my partner, and she is absolutely correct. Boston newscasters and even those who purport to be reporting on news of a wider sort rarely discuss news making events in other parts of our own country. Oh, sure, we see [...]

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What an idiot!

When 56 members of Congress can hold the rest of the nation hostage, that is a form of terrorism, period, end of report. Recently, one Ryan Rhodes, founder of Iowa’s Tea Party, confronted President Barack Obama in the rudest, crudest, most malicious, vicious, and ignorant manner possible. The President was, in fact, stumping in Iowa; [...]

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What does “local” really mean?

“If it happens west of the Mississippi,” you don’t hear about it. The speaker was Juli, my partner, and she is absolutely correct. Boston newscasters and even those who purport to be reporting on news of a wider sort rarely discuss news making events in other parts of our own country. Oh, sure, we see [...]

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