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To hear some tell it, an US attack on Iran has been imminent, well, for a few years. After most of the US media exhibited a lack of skepticism in the runup to the war in Iraq, Adam Reilly this week looks at whether the Fourth Estate has done any better...
A lot of Americans forget that most of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. So the appearance this afternoon by media bigfoot Karen Elliott House, at Brown's Watson Institute, promises to be interesting: Monday, April 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM Directors...
From the PPL : The Providence Public Library and WRNI (1290AM & 102.7FM), Rhode Island’s NPR news station, present “A Conversation about Iraq” with NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman on Wednesday, February 13 from 6:30-7:30 pm at Central Library...
Writing in the Phoenix, Sharon Steel describes how, in a time of global upheaval, many Americans are turning to Hello Kitty, Lolcats , and Juno, among other elements of what she dubs the cuteness surge . “We’ve had manifestations of this cute business...
The San Francisco Bay Guardian has Project Censored's annual list of the top stories missed by the mainstream media (h/t Romenesko ). Here's what tops the compilation: GOOD-BYE, HABEAS CORPUS The Military Commissions Act, passed in September 2006 as a...
After 9/11, some observers suggested that the clash between the West and Islamic extremists would foster a generation of more politically active and civicly engaged young people. Unfortunately, a new study doesn't offer much encouragement (h/t Romenesko...
