NPR & Ellsberg comment on Iran

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Sunday September 24, 2006 · 6:50 AM PDT

2006/09/24 · 06:50

For those of you who may have missed (or do not regularly listen to) NPR's "On the Media," you should listen to this week's edition, which contains two excellent segments on journalism and war.

The first details lemmings-to-flame problem inherent in journalism; something the commenters hope is replaced with careful inquiry the next time war appears imminent.

The second is an interview with The Man himself, Daniel Ellsberg, whom I have long admired when I started reporting in undergrad and as I moved on to law school to study the First Amendment in greater depth.

Check it out.

Meanwhile, here's Daniel Schoor in the CSM, commenting on Ellsberg and the First Amendment -- something all of us hold dear, but which is not as protected as some of us believe: [More] Read More

Nasty federal NCLB/abuse investigation in Columbus, OH

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Friday September 22, 2006 · 7:16 AM PDT

2006/09/22 · 07:16

We at Justiceforkids.net and KingCast.net have been posting, showing movies and screaming about corruption in Ohio and now we are being heard -- and Columbus School Board members are hiding for cover and notably absent from a recent town hall NCLB meeting sponsored by the Urban League and the U.S. Department of Education, held at the Kings Arts Complex.

Politicians whom this board knows and generally trusts, are involved but I cannot say anything more at this point. Loose lips sink ships -- pardon my double entendre because the Columbus School Board is already listing a-stern.

Significantly, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling was one of the Guest Speakers.

In this blawg entry I break it down for you; [More] Read More

9/11 and the negative space.

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Thursday September 14, 2006 · 7:29 AM PDT

2006/09/14 · 07:29

In a few minutes of down time the other day at work I started reading this Boston Phoenix piece which featured 11 prominent area thinkers (none of them black but in eurocentric Boston whaddya' expect) and found it to be a worthwhile read.

As a former investigative journalist, I particularly liked journalist E.J. Graff's piece, which I blockquote in part below the fold.

But before I get there a moment of reflection is in order:

That Phoenix piece dovetailed with Sunday night's CBS presentation on the firefighters that my sister and I watched with rapt attention. It was told not so much through any political lens but as a human interest story, which I appreciated. [More] Read More

Daily Kos wrong on NAACP; Christopher King

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 11:10 AM PDT

2006/09/10 · 11:10

I am a 50-something semi-retired reporter and political hack who consults with a couple of different political bloggers. I have only recently begun following Daily Kos, and in general I love it. But specifically the board seems to have some problems in the way it deals with criticism of any Democratic personage or entities, including Ohio Congressional Candidate Mary Jo Kilroy (D-15) or the NAACP.

I write to you about a man I recently Googled who apparently was kicked off of Daily Kos and called a criminal when in fact this Union Leader story indicates quite the contrary. I will return to this momentarily. [More] Read More

Ohio's Congressional Candidate Mary Jo Kilroy blasted in video

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Friday September 08, 2006 · 6:06 AM PDT

2006/09/08 · 06:06

Ohio will again be a pivotal state in the 2008 elections, and what happens within Ohio between now and then will provide us with a good indication of its political health and well-being. Hopefully Dems will make some inroads, but we should not usher in each and every Democratic candidate just because he or she wears a Donkey on their lapel:

Democratic candidate for Congress Mary Jo Kilroy is likely a better candidate for Ohio's 15th District than her Republican opponent Deborah Pryce, but in this video we see her bring Draconian hell down against concerned parents when she was Columbus school board president several years ago. The video appears to be addresses issues other than Kilroy per se, and the website contains some hateful dialogue from the current president Terry Boyd to a parent as well, but the recurring theme in it is that the government will kill voices of dissent regardless of political affiliation. Read More

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