No. That’s not my characterization of Condi. That’s what the former Mayor of San Diego and current right-wing Shout Radio host, Roger Hedgecock, calls me in a confrontation that airs tonight on Golden State PBS stations. More about that in a moment. Back to Condi. Well, I did my duty and got up at dawn [...]

It’s not clear yet if the wave of insurrection shaking Iraq has reached a tipping point, if it is headed toward a general anti-American rising. It would be rather ironic coming on precisely the first anniversary of the toppling of that Saddam statue in Baghdad. Reports coming this morning are, naturally enough, mixed. The Pentagon [...]

Fighting on two fronts continues in Iraq as U.S. Marines move into downtown Fallouja, armed with photographs, searching for the authors of last week’s barbarous massacre and mutilation of four American security contractors. Meanwhile, Apache helicopters have been deployed against targets in Baghdad. In Najaf and other Shiite strongholds, militias loyal to fundamentalist cleric Moqtada [...]

This last week has reminded me of some research I did in the late 80′s. A local outfit here in L.A. had finally archived all the network TV news coverage of Vietnam. I was commissioned to swim through it all and come up with some notion of what its biases were. I was taken back [...]

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