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Walter Cronkite, “who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News,” died after a prolonged illness at his home in New York on Friday. He was 92. Alas, despite being a news junkie, I am too young to fully appreciate the eulogies to Cronkite that… Read more.
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Yesterday, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill) finally announced that he will not be seeking to be elected in his own right to the seat Barack Obama vacated when he was elected president. But his announcement was as humiliating as it was anticlimactic. No doubt you recall the venal ambition Burris displayed in soliciting the then disgraced and… Read more.
There’s no denying that the first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by the first black president of the United States is a big deal. And there’s no denying that every African head of state lobbied heavily to serve as host for this historic occasion. Therefore, it speaks volumes that President Barack Obama has relegated today’s visit… Read more.
If you were Palin and could go, in an instant, from serving as governor of Alaska to making millions (as a shoot-from-the-lip, eye-winking, titillating crusader for conservative causes), wouldn’t you make that change…? You betcha! It’s just too bad she didn’t have the balls to state this obvious reason for quitting. Instead, she spewed such Palinesque BS — saying, for example, that she’s quitting to… Read more.
Far too much has already been said about yesterday’s memorial service for Michael Jackson. Therefore, I shall be relatively brief. Admittedly, I only saw a few clips last night. But the most poignant moment for me was not any of the eloquent eulogies (Brooke Shields) or stirring performances (Jermaine Jackson … who knew?). Nor was it little Paris… Read more.
As great a celebrity as President Obama has become, I really did not expect coverage of his Moscow summit to compete with the obsessive, predatory and wholly redundant coverage of (plans for) today’s Michael Jackson Memorial. But nothing demonstrates the tabloidization of the news media quite like the fact that even coverage of Sarah… Read more.
Last weekend brought sweet redemption for Serena Williams and Roger Federer at Wimbledon as both avenged heart-breaking losses last year in the women’s and men’s championship, respectively. Serena Six years ago, Venus and Serena Williams made history when they became the first sister act to perform on centre court in a women’s final at Wimbledon. … Read more.
NOTE: In keeping with all things Michael Jackson, an updated version of my commentary on his death was published today at Caribbean Net News: here Read more.
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