Okay, I know lots and lots of folks – trash-ers as well as supplicants — read the NY Times and post the readings all over the place as if no one else reads the Times like they do. But this quote was too good to be overlooked and my students are in the back of my mind when they aren’t in the front:
This is a snapshot of a whiplashed country that (understandably) doesn’t know whose butt to kick first. — Frank Rich, NY Times, November 6, 2010.
I have no idea.
My two news writing and one journalism ethics/responsibility courses were given assignments inquiring about the economy’s dire effects on families, friends, neighbors and, indirectly, of course, themselves. Otherwise, I’m not sure how much and what they are referencing.
I can hardly wait to see what they bring turn in. Except for one student who said she believe that the assignment was seemed, in so many words, intrusive, there were no other responses from the three classes.
Yet …
FAIR, the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. since 1986.
Someone Has to Defend Goldman Sachs
4/26/2010 by Peter Hart
And that someone is Fareed Zakaria, in columns published in the Washington Post (“Cool the Goldman Rage”) and in the Post-owned Newsweek. Zakaria is unimpressed by the SEC’s fraud case against Goldman Sachs; he likens the firm’s mortgage securities bonds to someone placing a bet against the New York Yankees.
Click here for article.
By Chris Hedges
Posted March 1 @ truthdig
We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.
A compelling last paragraph: (more…)
New America Media, Commentary, Aaron Glantz, Posted: February 20, 2010
It was one year ago that this week that President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package. It’s the biggest investment in our country since the Great Depression, but in this commentary I show how for most of us, a year of stimulus is not enough.
Two sentences provide clarity about the driving forces of this particular race drama: If there was a teachable moment in this incident, it could be found in how some powerful white people well beyond Cambridge responded to it. That reaction is merely the latest example of how the inexorable transformation of America into a white-minority country in some 30 years — by 2042 in the latest Census Bureau estimate — is causing serious jitters, if not panic, in some white establishments.”
— Frank Rich, New York Times, Column, August 2, 2009
Click here for his column
He did and his comments were heard around the world. [Google results: 1,230,000 for obama calls cambridge cop stupid]
Brown, a no-show tonight. John Roberts fills in. Â Race shows up, though not the lead story, but in prime time view:
Bad News!
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Ed Kent is a former Brooklyn College philosophy professor who seems to read everything and then disseminates the information. I sort through his choice tidbits for material to post on the WORD Blog.
One of his latest:
The rest is here.
Tags: Afghanistan war, great recession, Iraqi war, middle east imbroglio, Obama
Posted in Commentary, News/Commentary/Opinion | No Comments »