It's Tim Russert, not Walter Cronkite!
Yeah, it’s tragic that Russert died, and my prayers go out to Tim and his family, but if Tim Russert is the pillar of journalism that he’s being hailed as in all these gushing reports, then journalism...
View ArticleNYT Column Gives Needed Perspective on Russert's Death
A column by David Carr at the front of today's NYT business section offers valuable perspective on the untimely passing of Tim Russert. In particular, it places his death in the broader context of the...
View ArticleCountdown with Keith Olbermann - July 29, 2008
It's 98 days until the election, and I realized this morning that I left a very important item off the "list" for male F.O.O. - a cod piece and/or athletic supporter. 'Nuff said!Last night, I alluded...
View ArticleCountdown with Keith Olbermann - July 30, 2008
It's 97 days until the general election, and today we were greeted with the news of Britney Spears & Paris Hilton in an anti - Obama ad, TurdBlossom held in contempt of Congress, but there won't be...
View Article"DH"ing for PastorDan Part Deux - Righteous (?) Anger
Thank you allSO MUCH for your support, kudos, & kind words last week & tonight. Next Sunday, we return you to your regularly scheduled "programming." :D
View ArticleThe Andreasen Files
MSNBC President Phil Griffin drinks Electric Kool-aid, selling out his Viewers to the RNC by Suz Andreasen, Spetember 9, 2008Dear MSNBC President Phil Griffin,Are you insane? Olbermann and Matthews are...
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My Katie Couric fantasy (with photos)
I woke up this morning in a sweat, the hot passionate images of Katie still filling my brain. Was it a dream? Or was it a blissful memory, suppressed but oh-so-real, just now bubbling to the surface of...
View ArticleRoosevelt's 1942 tax proposal and patriotism
In June of 2006 I did this post about Roosevelt's 1942 tax proposal.Given the back and forth regarding Biden's statement that it would be patriotic for wealthy Americans to chip in more to help our...
View ArticleThe Other Joe: McCain and Palin Resurrect McCarthy's Attacks
Just over fifty years ago, Joseph McCarthy attacked Edward R. Murrow with some of the exact same language that John McCain and Sarah Palin are using today to attack Barack Obama.In these chilling...
View ArticleUnAmerican & Proud of It! - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - Oct. 20, 2008
I know some of you here are big Family Guy fans, I am a HUGEFamily Guy fan - all 5'2" of me, & Keith Olbermann is an ENORMOUS (according to David Letterman, anyway) Family Guy fan. Last night's...
View ArticleObama Backs Delay for Digital TV Conversion
As a follow-on to Mangala's diary from earlier today, "Another ATTACK on the POOR: Digital TV Conversion", the New York Times is reporting the Obama team has quickly backed-up the advice of the...
View ArticleCountdown with Keith Olbermann - Mar. 9, 2009
We've got whiplashian (yep, made up that word) events for "this day in history." On one side, on this date in 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller acknowledged the...
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann - Apr. 27, 2009
It's been 5 days since the Mannity offered to be waterboarded for an organization to help military families. I guess I can be charitable & assume the Mannity's been under a rock for a few days, so...
View ArticleYou probably think this song is about you
It's been a few months now since John Stewart's face-off with CNBC's Jim Cramer. We've moved on, of course, but that interview remains one of the best modern examples of a journalist effectively...
View ArticleUncle Walter Sometimes Stung
The main thing to remember about Walter Cronkite is not why he was beloved, but why he was hated.The media, by which people only started to mean "television" in the 1960s, did not do much to revivify...
View ArticleRIP Walter Cronkite, Rest In Peace
This will be kind of short, but I just want/need to say this.There was a time in my life where I wanted to be a journalist. In graduate school I got a grad assistance job for the Manship Chair at LSU....
View ArticleUncle Walter, We Hardly Knew Ye (w/poll)
http://www.cspan.org/... I did not see this diaried today, but C-Span has the Walter Cronkite memorial service on. These weird media days, wherein correspondents and talking heads tell us how we...
View ArticleHold Max Baucus Accountable c/o PCCC/DFA (with Action & Poll)
I'm sure many of you know about the ads that the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America have cobbled together to put pressure on key Senators (i.e. Ben Nelson, Charles...
View ArticleCheney Certainly Didn't 'Dither' During Vietnam - He Hauled Ass
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREECheney Certainly Didn't 'Dither' During Vietnam - He Hauled AssWhere is Dick Cheney's shame? And where is the shame of the people who are supposed to be covering...
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann - Mar. 9, 2010
Good good evening! Don't forget to spread the word about the new diary logo "contest." I want people to be able to vote on lots of ideas, and I've been seeing MANY potential logo ideas here in the last...
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