Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2012

It's the Lies About Beef that are the Slime

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By Alan Caruba I am subject to various enthusiasms and, in 2008, I wrote a series about beef and the vast network of phony consumer advoca...
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Friday, November 5, 2010

On Writers, Professional and Otherwise

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By Alan Caruba One thing the invention of the personal computer and the Internet has done has turned millions of people into writers. Mill...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

The Kennedy Death Watch

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By Alan Caruba Brace yourself, when Sen. Teddy Kennedy dies—and it looks like that could be any day now—the mainstream media will launch an ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Journalism Today: A Very Thin Quill

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By Alan Caruba Every month for well over twenty-five years I have received a copy of the “Quill”, a magazine by and for the members of the S...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

U.S. News Goes Green

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By Alan Caruba Warning! Avoid the April edition of U.S. News & World Report because it is devoted to the question, “Can America Prosper ...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Disappearing Daily Newspapers

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By Alan Caruba As someone who began his career in journalism, working for weeklies, moving on to a daily, and later seeing my by-line on occ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Shortest Honeymoon on Record

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By Alan Caruba This is likely to be the shortest “honeymoon” on record for a new administration. The news that former Senator Tom Daschle ha...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Stench of Sleaze

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By Alan Caruba I’m betting that we will all look back at the confirmation hearings, the controversy over Barack Obama’s birthplace, and the...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How Many Dead in Galveston?

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By Alan Caruba Here’s a question for you. Given the many people who refused to leave Galveston, Texas, how many died as the result of Hurric...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

A Palin Family Problem

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By Alan Caruba Let’s face it. A lot of born-again Christians are going to have to swallow hard to find any good news in the report that Sara...
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Listen to Your Gut

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By Alan Caruba I have a friend who has built an international reputation as a negotiation coach. He is the author of two bestselling books o...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Not as Dumb as They Think

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By Alan Caruba One thing that both journalists and politicians hold in common is their belief that the American public is really dumb. This ...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Iraq Fades as News

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By Alan Caruba Five years passed an extraordinarily successful invasion of Iraq and the taking of Baghdad, followed by several years of a sl...
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Russert Revisited

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By Alan Caruba Like others, on news of the death last Friday of NBC’s Tim Russert, I posted a brief tribute to the respected journalist. It ...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Media Destruction Machine at Work

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By Alan Caruba It was entirely predictable and, as such, a perfect example of the way the mainstream media, wedded to the bad science and fa...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Beautiful People

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By Alan Caruba Every generation selects its standard of beauty, usually from the world of show business. The fashion industry exists to herd...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Snow in Florida? Would I Kid You?

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By Alan Caruba Snow Flurries Possible In Central Florida During Hard Freeze -- Daytona Beach, Titusville, Palm Bay May See Snow POSTED: 6:40...
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Monday, November 5, 2007

Amidst the Din of Global Warming, Growing Global Skepticism

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by Alan Caruba This week an entire American network, NBC, has devoted its news programing to promoting the claims that global warming is goi...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Eating Meat

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By Alan Caruba I am having a beautiful, thick steak tonight. I love meat. It got me thinking, however, of the thousands, if not millions of ...
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