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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Whether out of exhaustion with the current state of television or annoyance with the celebrity-like status most news anchors seemed to strive for. We had long ago left TV news for the real news online and in print. We had whittled down our tivo-worthy newscasts to two, The Daily Show and Aaron Brown. Jon Stewart because fake news has often been more truthful than the real news and Aaron Brown because he had, in our perception at least, a genuine dignity and feeling for the subjects he covered. Anderson Cooper will surely do well and deserves a promotion. But why CNN would choose to relieve Aaron Brown instead such long-running disasters as Larry King and Lou Dobbs (or any of the bobble head dolls over on Headline News, for that matter) is hard to comprehend. Could it be Mr. Brown has more interesting options? Oh, and is �drippy� what you get when you stand out in hurricane force weather to add that genuine sense authenticity to storm reporting?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
