This posting was to have been about the first day of the Republican National Convention but there were a few snags. First, the everyone felt it would be unseemly to carry on convention activities as planned with Hurricane Gustav threatening the gulf coast, so actual convention activity was limited to just 2 1/2 hours of […]
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On Race
Dr. Martin Luther King once dreamed of a future where people would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And here we are, 40+ years later, declaring that the election of Barack Obama would be momentous, not for his character, but for the color of his skin.
Do The Math
Today’s Arizona Republic, on the front page, says: an, “estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants” are in the U.S. I’ve seen that number a lot and it doesn’t seem to have changed over the last few years. There’s no attribution; we don’t know the source of that number. The Arizona Republic on Oct. 31 (p. A10) […]
Letter to ’60 Minutes’
A free press is not some huge floodlight, illuminating everything so that a well-informed populace can make fully-informed decisions. Rather it is a series of spotlights, each wielded by a journalist or editor, each of whom has a point to make, each of whom wants you to draw certain conclusions. You can learn a lot about a journalist’s world-view by what they cover as well as how. (And by what they choose not to cover.)