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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Tedious Attacks On ‘Mainstream Media’
BY FROMA HARROP Last week, the most-read items on the RealClearPolitics website were complaints about the “mainstream media.” Basically, it was Mitt Romney supporters claiming that their man was behind in polls because the so-called mainstream media were biased against conservatives. On the left, meanwhile, the beefs tend to focus on “what the media aren’t […]
Barack To Mitt: Corporations Run The Economy
How Long Can We Do It This Way?
America’s Pusillanimous Press
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Let us now access the state of the free press in this land of … well, of press freedom. The assessment? Pathetic. Not because of any government clampdown, but because of increasing press pusillanimity. In recent years, newspaper reporting had already been severely weakened by drastic cutbacks in newsrooms [including the near-abandonment […]
Swing State Florida’s Up-For-Grabs Region
BY FROMA HARROP LADY LAKE, FL – Lunching at Applebee’s in this hyper-groomed shopping center, I’m tempted to buttonhole some of the retirees enjoying their leisure as Fox News jabbers down from the bar. This, after all, is a gathering place near the storied retirement community known as The Villages, a huge conservative enclave smack […]