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A fitting memorial to the Kennedy passing: pass Health care bill

There would be no more fitting tribute to the passing of Ted Kennedy, than to pass a health-care reform bill by early fall. After all, Mr. Kennedy devoted most of his political life to health-care...

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Dominick Dunne: 1925-2009; best-selling author; covered OJ trial

Dominick Dunne didn’t know me from a whole in the head when I had a chance to talk to him for about an hour down in LA during the OJ Simpson murder trial in 1995. It was the “trial of the century“, and...

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Sean Hannity announces he ‘would run for office’; Katy bar the door

Well, you knew this was coming, didn’t you? Sean Hannity offered a veiled threat on his Fox News show Wednesday. “I would ‘run for office at some point’,” said the FNC blowhard, second in command to...

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Let’s all make love and sing with the Osmonds; Facebook, Twitter moratorium

We have become a society of social neanderthals, as the electronice devices and networking sites that were once mere status symbols of our professional life, have now kidnapped our very existence and...

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Media coverage of the Jaycee Lee Dugard story; a ‘certifiable catch-22′

How do you cover an unseemly, incredibly sordid and disturbing story like the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping/reappearence, yet try to be informative without being sensationalistic? It’s a delicate issue...

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What would you do with $333 million?; Mega-million jackpot tonight

First thing I’d do is realize that even if I had all the numbers, there’d be a mistake, ’cause I never win anything other than 10 records for a dollar, but if I did… I’d go to the full-serve gas...

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Beck’s carnival act an embarrassment; even by Fox News standards

It’s been a fascinating month for Glenn Beck and his media empire. It’s not often you call the President of the US a racist; watch over thirty sponsors abort your TV show at Fox News yet still command...

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CNN and founder Ted Turner; 30 years later, cable giant tries to reignite and...

Almost thirty years ago, Ted Turner created an all-news, 24/7 cable network called appropriately enough: “Cable News Network”, or more to the point, CNN. At the time, few people gave it any chance of...

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Checkbook journalism in the Jaycee Lee Dugard story; Media paying for info in...

The infamous house on Walnut street in Antioch where Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive for almost two decades, has become a media fortress. Scores of TV satellite trucks and reporters from around the...

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Swine flu media coverage: hysteria over information?

Swine flu media coverage is taking on an electronic/print pandemic. It began in April; with a much publicized outbreak of several cases in Mexico; subsided in spring and has now spread fast over the...

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