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What exactly is a "presidential exploratory committee?" Is it an important distinction in the life of a campaign that signified a significant step forward, or just some part of the overall pageantry of a presidential campaign? As it turns out, it's both!
I sit down with Biz Stone for an extensive conversation, including his thoughts on the highs and lows of this remarkable five year journey.
The American media's coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the conflict that ensues because of this occupation is quite infuriating. Why not tell us both sides of the story? Why not provide us with context?
The trouble with journalism grad school is that you're dumping up to $80,000 into an education that won't come close to paying off financially for a really long time.
Of all the icons that the iconoclastic Jon Stewart chooses to smash, the one that gets media figures in the most trouble is the infallibility of Israel, which is why Stewart is all alone out there. But he won't be for long.
No one can be so ridiculous as to suggest that some sort of miserable, bearded Christian deity was just sitting around, bored out of his mind, and suddenly decided, on a frustrated whim, to flick his middle finger against the Pacific plate.
Charles Krauthammer wants you to know two things: There's no "lockbox" for Social Security and there's no such thing as a free lunch. He's wrong about Social Security, but first things first: Let's do lunch.
Although the airwaves that all media travel over are, in fact, owned by the public, commercial entities continue to expand and dominate them, and it is critical that American citizens demand a stake in the information coming into their homes.
Our ability to respond ethically to situations depends on accurate information and truthful reporting. Our principles are useless unless we first understand the reality. "What is happening?" necessarily precedes "what should we do?"
The reason almost all news outlets can readily be accused of having a liberal bias regardless of how diligently they try to stay in the middle of the road is this: Reality has a liberal bias.
At first I didn't put all the pieces together. Why wouldn't he return my calls? After all, in January alone he'd had Jane McGonigal, Michael Lewis, and Amy Chua. But still, no invite.
AT&T;'s plan to take over T-Mobile foretells a dark scenario for the future of all communications -- a future that looks increasingly like a bygone era of monopoly control.
Been to a cannabis trade show lately? The floors are crawling with barely-clothed women pitching products. People shrug and say that's what happens at trade shows, but why does that have to be the case at our shows?
How do we inhabit this kind of world where boys as young as fourteen feel they can rape a young girl and not feel anything -- guilt, repulsion, empathy?
It would be a pity if an institution as great as UCLA could not figure out a way to reach out to Alexandra Wallace and its entire student body in order to make a recent unfortunate incident a teachable moment.
I get Rush Limbaugh. He's not the issue. I understand why he says what he says. I don't have to like it. Here's what I don't get: His listeners.
President Obama, by going to Latin America this past week, you showed the region -- and Latinos here at home -- that we matter. Thank you for doing the right thing.
I began my career at a local paper covering local news. Our paper was a key player in the community -- a partner, if you will. It'll be the same in the case of the two new Patch sites in Newark.
As if the triple whammy of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster weren't enough to enthrall and terrify us, the war in Libya is now providing cable news viewers a fresh hell to follow 24/7.
Sue VanDerzee, 2011.03.23
Bill Swadley, 2011.03.23
