Bloggers challenge corporate journalists to do real journalism

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…

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I wonder if Bush ever thinks about all the dead Iraqis his lies have produced

Just imagine if some foreign demagogue had caused the daily slaughter of scores of people in America's capitol city. I wonder what we would think of him, and of the people who brought him to power.  We gripe, for good reason, about Osama bin Laden, but his act of terrorism pales in comparison…

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Electing a person of competence over a “person of faith”

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…

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