In March of this year, National Public Radio (NPR) revealed that by the end of 2008, 23.6 million people were tuning into its broadcasts each week. In fact, NPR’s ratings have increased steadily since 2000, and they’ve managed to hold on to much of their 2008 election coverage listenership bump (with over 26 million people  Read more »

Journalists, start your skepticism. In covering the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street don’t repeat the failed lapdog practices that so damaged our reputations in the rush to war in Iraq and the adoption of the Patriot Act. Don’t assume that Congress must act instantly, as so many news stories state as if it  Read more »

There has been constant coverage of a few Clinton supporters who are upset that she lost – thats understandable – but if you listen to the news you get the impression that these people are eager to go out and support John McCain. McCain’s platform is so far from what Clinton stood for in the primary season that you have to question what these few, but vocal, Clinton supporters wanted out of this election.

The last year of the 2008 Presidential primary campaign has lulled me into a false sense of security. I’ve seen issues being discussed using words containing as many as four syllables. Former US Vice President Al Gore was one of the Nobel Peace Prize recipients and politicians at home and abroad seem to be taking  Read more »

Brian and I went downtown today to meet a friend for lunch in Chinatown and because today was the Chinese New Years Parade and the last day of the Philadelphia Auto Show we decided to take the train down rather than drive and deal with parking and traffic.  Lunch was great and on our way  Read more »