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There has been a great deal of speculation in the media lately about the relationship between Oprah and President Obama. In fact, to listen to some political commentators you’d think Oprah has become a woman scorned because Obama refused to give her the White House access she coveted (to exploit for commercial purposes) “after helping… Read more.
What passes for journalism at the moment? This blog brims with commentary on my disdain for what passes for journalism these days. So, imagine my dismay when 60 Minutes, the reputed standard bearer of broadcast journalism, only reinforced my disdain on Sunday. On October 27, 60 Minutes aired a highly touted report on the 9/11/12 terrorist attack on the US consulate in… Read more.
A cache of “lost” paintings looted by the Nazis before the Second World War containing some 1,500 works by world-renowned artists including Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Klee and valued at an estimated €1bn has been found, according to German media reports. Bavarian customs police discovered the sensational haul in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the… Read more.
News outlets cover natural disasters purportedly as a public service. But there’s no denying that such coverage is a ratings boon for their bottom line – catering as it does to the perverse thrill of suspense that keeps us fixated on the hype of impending doom…. (“Katrina’s Coming, Katrina’s Coming,” The iPINIONS Journal, August 29,… Read more.
I disabled the comments feature on this weblog years ago when it became clear that most people were just using it as a message board to write snarky comments that had nothing to do with what I actually wrote. But this did not stop interested readers from using the CONTACT feature to send relatively informed… Read more.
Anyone who knows anything about the political success Bill and Hillary Clinton have enjoyed knows that Terry McAuliffe was the indispensable campaign fundraiser who made it all possible. As it happens, I know a little more than most about their relationship – having worked down the hall from Terry when he was serving as chief fundraiser… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard or read about the White “lone wolf” who opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday, killing one TSA agent and wounding two others before police ended his shooting spree. Incidentally, what are we to make of the fact that, like the Boston Marathon bomber who survived a fusillade… Read more.
It speaks volumes that Europeans are ascribing no blame for this Lampedusa tragedy to the African governments that have failed their people so abysmally. This failure, after all, is the only reason why so many Africans, utterly bereft of hope at home, are fleeing to Europe in desperate pursuit of peace, prosperity, and happiness. But… Read more.
Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel… The sub-sea passage that runs below the Bosphorus Strait, will link the Asian and European shores of Istanbul for the first time. The opening of the major engineering project marks the completion of a plan initially proposed by an… Read more.
I suspect what follows will mislead some of you to think that my views on this confluence of issues make those of the chauvinistic characters on Mad Men seem progressive. But before you get your panties all in a twist, I urge you to take a minute to search this weblog – using the words… Read more.
