The Hypocrisy Of The Media
I am amazed at the hypocrisy of the international media's attack on Beyonce for her performance at Nikki Beach in St. Barts over the holidays.
The appointment of Amanda Simpson to the Commerce Department may be the first time that David Letterman's viewers have seen a trans person as anything other than the butt of a joke.
I am amazed at the hypocrisy of the international media's attack on Beyonce for her performance at Nikki Beach in St. Barts over the holidays.
If Bono truly cares about poverty, education, health care and fair trade in developing regions, he should be against draconian copyright enforcement regimes and for more balance.
Media madness in the financial arena is spreading. Recently, the usually reliable Fox Business Network served up another incredulous dilly -- a segment featuring stocks "you can hold forever."
A line or two of advertising does not do much to undermine the sanctity of Google's home page. But these small cracks have a way of letting water in that eventually erodes foundations.
The New York Times reported today on the Fiscal Times scandal that has the Washington Post on the defensive. And the NYT framed the controversy in exactly the right way (emphasis added).

The photo might well have been compelling before Woods's life, and facade caved in, but at this point, its publication is only cheap and punitive.
Nine months ago, the New York Times published an absurd story claiming that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees had "returned" to terrorism. Amazingly, the paper has rerun essentially the same story.
Brit Hume, while I wouldn't presume to advise you to take up Buddhism, maybe you could try reading some Buddhist authors like Jack Kornfield or Pema Chodron to supplement your scripture.
I was mildly alarmed to see news organizations substituting Leibovitz's rules for their own judgment about how long viewers need to actually see a photograph.
What we need are more, not fewer Brit Hume's in the public square, each advocating for their ideas and beliefs.
My new favorite song -- played and replayed umpteen times over the past not even a day is a simple, fabulous acoustic-guitar Lady Gaga medley by Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider.
At the end of the year the Washington Post published as "news" a story that pushed the idea of "a special commission to make the tough decisions that will be required to dig the nation out of debt."