Currently on the list are 41 newspapers that endorsed George W. Bush in 2004 that now are endorsing Obama and 4 newspapers that endorsed John Kerry and are now endorsing John McCain.

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts. Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be  Read more »

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News. Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number  Read more »

There is a lot of federal spending that is either ineffective or so inefficient that the money should stay in the federal coffers.  That does not apply to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  In fact, the first four syllable word I knew as a child was Corporation because of the credit that appeared at the  Read more »

I decided to take a quick break from cooking Thanksgiving dinner to remind people to get out and vote for this years Falsies. The Center for Media and Democracy releases an end of year list of the "most heinous polluters of the information environment over the past year".  These are people who take spin and  Read more »