As the press delves more deeply into Sarah Palin’s life and past, it’s yielded such information as the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, a tidbit seemingly at odds with the wholesome “hockey mom” image Palin and her family seek to put forth.
Such facts have raised the “moral contradiction” alarm, leading fellow candidates, in this [...]

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The Dixie Chicks are apparently too controversial for NBC. The Washington Post reported Friday that NBC refused to run ads for their new movie Shut Up & Sing because “they are disparaging of President Bush.”
Larry Lessig points out that this is not the first time NBC has acted in order to protect the [...]

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NBC announced its decision to save $750 million over the next 2 years by filling the first hour of prime time with low-cost schlock like reality programs and and game shows, and by laying off 5 percent of by cutting NBC Universal’s full-time workforce of 15,000. (This amounts to about 700 job cuts.)
NBC plans to [...]

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Jon Stewart is convinced that the reason for Bush’s low job approval rating is that Americans just don’t understand what his job entails. This montage of Bush spouting sound bites about what he believes his job to be is both disturbing and hilarious.

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A favorite of every pulp tabloid, insider blog and gossip show, Paris Hilton has achieved pop-cultural ubiquity. No mere celebrity, she has created a public persona outrageously exploitable in the marketplace– a long-legged, cat-walking, air-kissing, drunk-driving designer advertisement.

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 Alleged voting irregularities during both the 2000 and 2004 were under reported by the mainstream news media. They are most commonly thought of as mere rumors generated by conspiracy theorists unhappy with the election results, as inadvertent errors caused by technological problems on the part of voting equipment or organizational mishaps on the part election [...]

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Truth Out today posted an Agence France Presse round-up of international newspaper editorials. There are no big surprises but the general disgust on the part of editors around the world toward the Bush response to the attacks in the last five years is sobering.
Papers in Europe and the Middle East were the most brutal– which [...]

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Facebook released several new features Tuesday, including something it calls “news feed,” which appears on users’ homepages and reports every move their friends make. It’s not the information that’s new, just how it’s being presented. And apparently many of the 8 million-plus Facebook users don’t like it. According to Al Tomkins, by 9:45 [...]

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Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, is all over the web today for lambasting the Bush Administration’s new election-season angle of attack on media dissent (the most effective way to limit any dissent). In a series of speeches this week, first Rumsfeld and then Bush linked American journalists with the Nazis and al Qaeda, [...]

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Andrew Young, in offending Koreans and Jews and Arabs in one fell swoop this week, demonstrated that African-Americans, even those who have dedicated their entire life to working for expanded civil rights and inter-ethnic dialogue, are not immune to the “Turned Old, Tired, Bigoted and Cranky” syndrome known to affect white folk over 60 in [...]

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The recently foiled terrorist attacks and the escalating violence in Iraq have given a cringing world another blast of the president’s vapid sound-bite foreign relations analysis that sounds more like the comments of a jilted lover than the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. Comments like “They hate us because they hate our freedom” [...]

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This week an open source journalism project was lanched to investigate congressional earmarks–line-items inserted into a bill to direct funds to a specific project or recipient without any public hearing or review. There are currently 1,867 secret spending earmarks worth more than $500 million in the Labor-Health and Human Services appropriation bill now before Congress. [...]

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The Washington Post reported today that the FCC has FINALLY launched an investigation into broadcasters who air unattributed video news releases as straight news. The investigation was prompted by Center for Media and Democracy study released in April that found that 77 stations had aired without proper labeling video news releases (or what the center [...]

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