Marty Kaplan comments on a report by Glenn Greenwald from the National Press Club this week. One panelist, Newsweek's Richard Wolffe responded to criticism by bloggers that journalists are not doing their job: Our role is to ask questions and get information. It's not a chance for the opposition to…
Not very well, according to this article from Salon.com. Here's an excerpt: Perhaps most troubling, the Army seems bent on denying that the stress of war has caused the soldiers' mental trauma in the first place. (There is an economic reason for doing so: Mental problems from combat stress can require…
When I see how this war of words is going on, it depresses me. As reported by DailyKos: The GOP is trying to frame Murtha's plan of requiring improved troop readiness as the exact opposite. According the GOP: Murtha's plan is to "cut funding", is a "strategy to pull the…
Mitt Romney proudly stood up for himself today. He boldly told a large Florida crowd what kind of president we need to elect in 2008: "One of the great things about this land is that we have people of different faiths and different religions, but we need to have a person…
Bill Moyers has recently written on the meaning of Democracy on TomPaine.com. First, he presents an illustration of the problem. As is the case with many overarching social issues today, this one starts with a media almost entirely controlled by a few large corporations: Jesus would not be crucified today. The…