Hana Sediva was a little known Czech member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party (CSSD) between 2002 and 2010. Her legislative initiatives neared zero, she missed more voting than anybody else in the Chamber and she received regular bad press for her weekly flights between Prague and her home town that were paid by […]
Public Media Is More Important than Political Platitudes
Source NPR Note: This report originally appeared at the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. by Matthew L. Schafer A little known bill, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO] this summer is being revitalized by NPR’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams. Despite some conservatives’ new found resolution to cut public media funding, the idea is […]
Obama To Make Whistle Stop In New Orleans
It was announced by the AP that globe trotting Barack Obama is scheduled to make a domestic spin from the East to West Coast (for a black tie fundraiser in San Francisco, home to the bulk of the Global Socialists within one of the mainstream parties) via New Orleans in order to do a post-Katrina […]
JK Minister Flags off Heritage Walk at Ambaran at Akhnoor in Jammu
Jammu, September 20(Vijay Kumar) –Jammu & Kashmir Minister for Health, Horticulture and Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma today said that Akhnoor town will be developed as a Model town and various steps in this direction have been taken. He said that efforts are on to bring Akhnoor town on the tourist map in view of […]
Mugabe on Genocide
Huge congratulations go to the team that staged the Harare Festival of the Arts (HIFA) 2009. There’s been such a buzz in downtown Harare over the last few days lifting many people’s spirits. The opening show was evocative. Much of the feedback I’ve heard is that it was a bit on the depressing side and […]
Old Media is dying, so what is to be done?
Recently, the New York Times and Washington Post, both flagship newspapers, announced layoffs as a result of declining ad revenues, competition from online news sources, and, of course, the deepening economic downturn. In addition to layoffs, the Times is slashing non-union salaries by up to 5% for the remainder of 2009 and forcing furloughs, and […]