Out of the Newsroom

“Context is Everything. In this piece you will see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient…” – Andrew Breitbart, 7/19/2010 “That is simply unacceptable, and Ms. Sherrod must resign.” – Bill O’Reilly, 7/20/2010 “We here at Studio B did not run the video and did not reference the story [...]

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It’s a chilly night for journalists, and not because of the cool temps and rain falling here in Southern New England on this Monday evening. No, the chill to which I refer is from the latest turn in the story about a popular technology blog named Gizmodo, after it got its hands on a prototype [...]

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It has gotten to the point that we are going to have to start putting those warning symbols up before the newscasts because some people think that what we are showing is too graphic or too violent. Probably not a week goes by without some viewer complaint about how some video we have shown in [...]

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One of my true guilty pleasures is the “Raw Dog” comedy channel on SiriusXM radio. It’s guilty because paying for radio in my car just seems like such an extravagance these days, and pleasure because the uncensored rants of great stand up comedians makes me laugh out loud. Often I really need the laugh. So [...]

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Just watched Dan Rather on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” talk very pointedly about having recently spent time on the ground with the American military in Afghanistan. He went on to explain what the additional troops that the President is about to send to this part of the world likely will–and won’t–accomplish. Whatever you may [...]

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Sometimes you read something that is so prescient, so absolutely right on target–that it changes the way you think as if someone had taken the proverbial “two by four” to the side of your head. I woke up on this Sunday morning and as I usually do–I flipped open my laptop and began scanning the [...]

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