Super Bowl Sexism, by the Numbers
Though the New Orleans Saints' decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads, where CBS showed just how low it can go.
The TV cameras will be at the health care summit, thus making up for that time the Obama administration didn't put the conference committee negotiations on C-SPAN, which Americans in the tens of tens were planning to watch.
Though the New Orleans Saints' decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads, where CBS showed just how low it can go.
I don't doubt that our natural and technological environment can add to our problems, perhaps even traumatize us. I just don't think that such traumas rise to the level of pathologies.
Can technology help us build channels that facilitate not just participation and engagement, but true empathy?
Free speech is meaningless if only one position has access to the public square. It's incumbent upon CBS to revise its practices so that those of us with stories about the benefits of abortion can do so in programming and advertising.
The mad complexity of Lost merits a grand, glorious finale that will keep people talking for years to come. If the show's writers don't deliver, we may never again see a show as demanding and uniquely entertaining as theirs.
In order to sell their beer, brewer-owners formed their own rival to the National League. Thus the American League was born, beginning the close relationship between beer and American sports that continues today
Now that his sex tape and other assorted sleazy doings seem to have taken John Edwards to the bottom, the mainstream media is on to the inevitable next story in this minor Greek tragedy, "Can Edwards make a comeback?"
When it came to Citizens United, the news media expressed righteous indignation. Where was the outrage in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act triggered a wave of media ownership consolidation?
The Vancouver 2010 Games are unique in at least one important aspect: they are the first genuinely digital and mobile Olympic Games. New media allies are already in place across the city.
Random thoughts while zipping through the Sunday morning shows, from the tape-delay of the Olympics to the surprising revelation that Peggy Noonan and Hugh Hewitt are hypocrites
I awoke this morning to a scene that the Donner Party would have recognized. Where I know I parked my car there is a mound of white. Two feet of snow and it's still coming down.
Are Sarah Palin's condemnations of Rahm Emanuel the deservedly stern comments of an offended mother or the hypocritical nonsense of a political opportunist?