The Sorry State of the Union

By Robert Scheer THE STATE OF THE UNION is just miserable, no matter how President Obama sugarcoats it. He will claim that progress has been made in stabilizing the markets, increasing national security and advancing toward meaningful health care reform, but he will be wrong on all three counts. What he will be right about [...]

Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage

January 25, 2010 By Robert Jensen CNN’s star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unable to get [...]

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