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Success and Silence

May 16, 2011 Culture

Not long ago, a petition went around asking Fox News to move Greg Gutfeld’s terrific Red Eye out of the 3AM time slot to maybe 11PM – some time when it could be seen without the use of a DVR.  Personally, I don’t think this goes far enough.  I would like to see Fox start [...]

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The Death of an Old Regime

April 19, 2010 politics

[It occurs to me that it's incredibly appropriate to post this on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington-Concord.  Viva the revolution!] Last week brought us two events—two voices—two perspectives on this crossroad moment in the history of journalism.  One event took place in the imaginary crystal mansions of our intellectual elite; one took place [...]

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Our News Media, The Temple Priests

January 21, 2010 Culture

An interesting collision of influences yesterday led me to a fresh, if somewhat offbeat, view of our current politics.  Exulting in Massachusetts’ repudiation of Obama’s socialist agenda, I went off to see the fun new film The Book of Eli, then returned home to enjoy Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood and Big Journalism websites with their [...]

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