My sister often says that if you want to look at an issue fairly change the parties involved from people you like to people you don’t and vice versa.  Then see how your perspective on the same issue changes. I think the media, if it really is interested in being fair, could learn from that…

It’s hard not to look at recent headlines and not be struck by how similar stories can garner such dissimilar reactions from the media. Radar Online has posted audio purported to be of Mel Gibson in a horrifyingly threatening tirade against Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his eight-month-old daughter. Assuming the tape is authentic (which…

You’ve probably never heard of John H. Brady.  All that was known of him (including by some of his own descendants) was that he worked as a New York cab driver during the early years of the last century, had a family and died sometime in the 1930’s of a heart attack. He was also…

That great American think tank known as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with its much-anticipated Emmy Award nominations for supposed excellence in television. I use the word “supposed” because excellence when it comes to art (if that’s what television is) is, of course, a subjective concept.  I’m made more aware…

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