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December 18, 2006
One country’s terrorist menace is one Baltimore Sun reporter’s insurgency.
In his December 18 article, “Paying the price for resistance,” Sun foreign reporter Scott Calvert gave readers a snapshot of a “violent insurgency that has forced…
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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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December 15, 2006
“What can be done to break Big Pharma’s growing control of our minds and bodies? I wish I knew,” a critic of the pharmaceutical industry wrote recently on a media blog. But the author of that post was an ostensibly unbiased investigative…
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December 14, 2006
Looking for factual medical reporting that avoids milking tragedy to create hype? If you’ve made an appointment to watch the CBS “Evening News,” you may want to get a second opinion.
While all…
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December 14, 2006
Just how are car companies staying in business without caring about their customers? “The manufacturers would prefer to save the $100 that it would cost to make a strong roof and put it into their…
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December 13, 2006
On the heels of two E. coli outbreaks that are still under investigation, ABC News hyped the risk of food-borne illness and suggested more government regulation could prevent illness and death. But Americans are as likely to…
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December 13, 2006
Have
a Holly Jolly Something
Which holiday is that? The one with
the Christmas trees and stockings hung by the chimney with care and
the birth of…
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December 13, 2006
The camera pans across a sparkling Christmas tree, then zooms in on singer Clay Aiken, who begins to sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: “... and ransom captive Israel … that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God…
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December 12, 2006
To The New York Times, balanced reporting on global warming is just a matter of how better to run up your cost of living: higher taxes or more regulation.
Finding “a surge in support in business and politics for cutting emissions,”…
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December 12, 2006
“Hungry? Watch out, food in America is becoming increasingly suspect,” warned Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly as he introduced his top story for the December 11 “O’Reilly Factor.”
But in the interview segment…
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