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January 18, 2006
Ford and now DaimlerChrysler are the latest companies to take the
layoff route to try and save their corporate skins. We watch our TVs
day after day as the numbers add up 7,000, 20,000, 30,000…
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January 4, 2006
There was a time when we had nothing to fear but fear itself. Those
were the days. Now the home of the brave is anything but and
Americans find ourselves in a constant state of fear.
We…
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December 15, 2006
Freedom of information is the backbone of good journalism. Keeping information open and available also helps democracy function. But contrary to the “information-wants-to-be-free” mindset left over from the dot-com era, free information isn’t…
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November 29, 2006
In 1975, Bob Dylan sang about being given “shelter from the storm.” In 2006, the media warned us that was what everyone would need facing another devastating hurricane season.
Americans braced back in May as the media belted out another…
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November 15, 2006
Don’t eat that! It doesn’t even matter what it is, somewhere someone on network news shows is probably telling you it’s “bad for you.”
If you believe them, almost everything meets that requirement. Caffeine. Sugar. Cereal. Meat. Alcohol.…
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November 1, 2006
Watching TV can be torture. This close to the election, it’s even worse thanks to TV news.
For more than a year, the networks told us almost every bit of good economic news was somehow bad. Now that they feel they have conservatives right…
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November 28, 2007
Once upon a time, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby went off on the road to Bali. Fifty-five years later, politicians are heading to Bali for sun, sand and socialism – and they want us to pay for it to the tune of trillions of dollars.
The…
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October 25, 2007
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? The classic question is a good way to look at the economy. Even economists don’t agree whether we’re in a “crisis” and a recession looms, or we’ve turned a corner and things are getting better.
The…
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October 3, 2007
No matter how much conservatives might resist, some issues seem to call for federal intervention.
Imagine something so important that threats to a particular industry are endangering our children’s future. One scary multibillion-dollar…
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September 12, 2007
“Armageddon.” “Collapse.” “Recession.” The media have been crying wolf about bad economic news throughout the four-year recovery. Now that they finally have some legitimate bad news, you can expect journalists will huff and puff even louder…
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