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So here I am, having just judged the Daily Show as having jumped the shark by substituting predictable polemic for snarky satire, posting yet another Daily Show clip for your comedy delectation. So what's up with that? Was I hasty? Did I jump...the gun? Or was I...
America’s New Archivist
David S. Ferriero has been nominated by President Obama to be the 10th Archivist of the United States. He is seen above in the Main Reading Room at the 5th Avenue and 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library. (Photo by Joyce Dopkeen for The New...
Annals Of The Obama Administration
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 accomplishments span fields...
Laughing Matters
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:
Teachable Moment: Don’t Forget Your Keys
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:
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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 pleasure...
Laughing Matters
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...
And That’s The Way It Was, March 22, 1935
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...
Buchanan Discusses The Nixon Comeback
The former RN staffer makes some interesting insights into RNs comeback in 1966-1968, as part of a comparison between RN and the former governor of Alaska. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Uncovering the Nixonian Holy Grail
From "Mother Jones", there seems to be a new attempt afoot to find out what was on the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on the tapes. Not from the tapes, but Haldeman's notes during the meeting.