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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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France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, which is estimated at 5 million. No doubt this is why it has been more beset by tensions arising out of the post-9/11 Talibanization of Islam than any other country in that region. These tensions came into stark relief in 2004 when France passed a law… Read more.
In what can only be described as playing Russian roulette with his country’s stagnating economy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered every casino and slot-machine parlor in Russia to cease operations, effective tomorrow. Of course, the gamble here is not that the Russian mob might whack him in retaliation, or that this order will deprive… Read more.
It is probably more embarrassing than shocking to US government officials that the American-trained military of Honduras pulled off the first coup in Central America, where coups were once common, since 1993. Because that’s exactly what Honduran soldiers did when they reportedly seized the national palace yesterday and flew the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into… Read more.
It would be understandable if Farrah Fawcett’s loved ones resent the fact that her death last Thursday has been relegated to an afterthought in 24/7-media coverage of the near-simultaneous death of Michael Jackson. But this resentment would be more about their inability to bask in her eulogic glory than about any disrespect the media has shown Farrah. Not to mention… Read more.
Paying tribute to Michael Jackson as the King of Pop is rather like paying tribute to Joseph Ratzinger as the Pope. For, where his musical genius was concerned, Michael was not only entertaining, but also revered and respected to the point of seeming, well, Invincible. Of course his musical legacy is set in platinum: i.e., in terms of record sales… Read more.
Leave it to a political sex scandal to replace the bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Iran as the news of the day in America. And the iron-fisted Mullahs who rule Iran must consider this scandal such a godsend that, instead of the protesters, I imagine they’re the ones now shouting from the rooftops, “Allahu Akbar” (God is… Read more.
