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I’m not sure how much I love it when this plan comes together. [A]ccording to [a] Fairleigh Dickinson University’s latest PublicMind poll…“there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all” FoxNews worse than ignorance, it’s not just opinion, it’s [...]

Amazing what you can do with a few old PCs and laptops.

Right-wing conservatives can be hypocritics, idiots, torturers and perpetual war-mongers running for higher office just to set themselves up on life’s grand buffet tour.

But for the Left it always comes down to being dirty fucking hippies, the media — even those mocking the media — can portray them no other way.

I’ve heard legal theories that the city of New York has the right to impose restrictions on the time, place and manner of the exercise of free speech. This will obviously play out in a court of law. I don’t know how anyone can reasonably look at the laws and say that the wholesale shutdown of the press, not only from the ground but from the air, is in any way a legal exercise.

Given the absence of perspectives from America’s elites, NBC is taking extraordinary steps to rectify this problem by hiring Chelsea Clinton to be a corespondent, despite the fact that she has no professional experience as a journalist or TV producer.

I found last night’s 60 Minutes story on insider trading in Congress to be uneven, partially underwhelming and at times outright misleading. That Congress has access to insider information and can trade on that information is true, but some of the examples CBS cited were weak or unconvincing.

Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson can’t find the actual data on what’s driving the deficits and how to address them, so he concocts a “centrist” position that, surprise, calls for cuts to “entitlements” and programs that matter to the folks hit hardest by the recession.

It’s been quite a week of debasement, evasion and reward in Rupert Murdoch’s empire. So these must be days ending in “y”.

I can’t tell you how many college journalism events I go to, where they discuss “the future of journalism.” The only time student media even comes up is for someone to deplore it as unserious and students’ love of it as insignificant. It only counts as reading a paper if you read the Times, kids!