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Fox News is Not Just Biased -- It's a Cult

Bryant Welch | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media


Bryant Welch

For cults, and Fox News, their objective is total control of the victim's mind so that the viewer becomes the easily manipulated pawn of the cult. Right, Glenn Beck? Bill O'Reilly?

My Kindle Ate My Homework

Marc Hershon | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media


Marc Hershon

Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.

The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World


Sandy Tolan

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.

John McCain's Big Lies

Janet Ritz | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


Janet Ritz

The distortions coming from the campaign make it impossible to determine who John McCain is beyond the noise, the distractions

Thinking Critically About Scientology, Psychiatry, and Their Feud

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 10.11.2008 | Living


Bruce E. Levine

Scientology and establishment psychiatry have something else in common. They are both orthodoxies that deal harshly with their ex-insiders who have come to reject them.

The Democrats in Denver: Surprises and Shadows

Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


Roderick Spencer

Before it all goes blurry and fictional in the retelling, allow me to recapitulate my personal list of astonishments from Denver.