Jul 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The President announced today this year’s recipients of America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He said: “These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of backgrounds. Their tremendous...
Jul 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As last night’s clunkily polemical opening segment demonstrated, the Daily Show has, indeed, jumped the shark. But John Oliver’s piece was based on a very clever premise: And the interview with John Bolton was text book TV:
Jul 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On last night’s Daily Show Jon Stewart considered the consequences of Henry Louis-Gate: And discussed them with “Senior Black Correspondent” (and veteran TV producer, writer, and Peabody winner) Larry Wilmore:
Jul 29, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today is the forty-second anniversary of a vitally important but mostly unheralded milestone on RN’s road to the presidency in 1968: his Lakeside Speech at the Bohemian Grove. He later wrote: "If I were to choose the speech that gave me the most...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The bad news is that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have, over the last few months, decisively jumped the shark. Maybe they changed writers; or maybe the old writers just ran out of snark and irony and steam, and decided that polemics were as funny as...
Jul 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The late Walter Cronkite learned the craft of journalism working for his high school paper in Houston and later for the Daily Texan at the University of Texas in Austin. One day in late March of 1935, he was sent to interview a visiting writer who was to speak at Hogg...
