Who Was Robert Novak?

Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak was born in Joliet, Illinois on February 26, 1931. He attended the University of Illinois, and started his journalistic carreer as a student writer for the Joliet Herald-News, and left the university one course short of graduation to work for...

After More Balanced Coverage, What Next?

"Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Mosharraf Zaidi As the world’s attention turns increasingly to Pakistan and its role in tackling the threat of globalised terrorism, the country’s perception abroad is evolving. More than seven years after 9/11, a more nuanced approach to...

Thomas Friedman: We Found the W.M.D.

Thomas Friedman quotes Norman Ornstein in today's Times:   "What we can do now, though, said the Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein, co-author of “The Broken Branch,” is “ask President Bush to appoint Tim Geithner, Barack Obama’s proposed Treasury...

CNN Ambushes Palin With Out-Of-Context Quote

See Video then read the article.  CNN is not this stupid, incompetent, corrupt, is it?  I thought CNN did a pretty good job on the Presidential campaigns.  This one was way outside of their usual...

Atlanta Press Club and National Press Club Look at Journalism's Future

"Atlanta Press Club and National Press Club Take a Look at the Future of Journalism For the first time the National Press Club is taking its programs across the nation to help...

EDITORIAL : OPINION ON CRUCIFIXION

OPINION: Crucifixion is the gruesome manner of punishment during the era of Christ. What about the modern age? Are there no more nailing and hanging over? If in the old era, its applied by hanging the...

Prognosis Dire, political columnist Robert Novak Retires

Prognosis Dire,  political columnist  Robert Novak RetiresThe Chicago Tribune is reporting that Robert Novak has stated that his condition is dire and he is permanently retiring from jounalism.  " ...

Novak Has Brain Tumor Huff Post Closes Comments

"Robert Novak the conservative columnist who broke the Valerie Plame sabotage has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. We hope he is well taken care of. But as usual the" hate in 2008" left at the Huffington Post...

Breaking: Novak cited after hitting pedestrian

Another celeb races into the news--on the negative side.ABC 7 news now has photos up and additional information."Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning. A...

Kilo's killers caught on CCTV

" THESE are the three teenagers suspected of tossing a ship’s cat into the Thames to drown – caught on CCTV. The two girls and a boy are seen close to World War Two ship HMS Belfast near Tower Bridge,...

Ghost-Written Journalism: "Hey, I Wrote That!"

There's a great discussion going on this morning about intellectual property and reporting, and this throws an interesting spin on it: What happens when the original article is itself an unattrbuted...

"...School District Comes Off As Secretive and Elusive..."

Opinion:"It’s no secret that North Tonawanda Superintendent of Schools Vincent Vecchiarella and the Tonawanda News don’t have the best relationship. Ever since I wrote a story detailing...

[Theo van Gogh and] "Education By Murder" in Holland

Some four years ago, Dutch society was jolted by a savage daylight stabbing of a highly controversial film maker theo van Gogh.Related to Vincent, van gogh had made a name for himself  with an agressive,...

A Mock Columnist, Amok

"Stephen Colbert on Race: "On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”"" Recently, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the horrific evil that is the...

Nuclear Politics: Taking the A Train

Will Australia ride roughshod over its people, federal and state laws to facilitate the dumping (storage) of nuclear waste from around the globe.About the AuthorDr Alison Broinowski is a Visiting Fellow at ANU and...

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