If you’re a fan of professional print journalism, you may be a little worried as of late. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News just closed its doors after nearly 150 years in the news game. Meanwhile the San Francisco Chronicle and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are both on life support. Even the New York Times, the largest newspaper in America, has cut its dividend and mortgaged its headquarters for $225 million.
It seems clear that the age of broadsheet newspapers is coming to an end,…
ABC is debuting its new show “Homeland Security USA” tonight at 8pm eastern time. Presumably the show is intended to make us all proud to be an American. If the previews are any indication, I won’t be feeling very proud.
Many of the preview segments focus on busting drug runners, probably because it makes for very good television. Cutting open a Ford Contour at the border and finding bundles of some sort of drug has a sort of “gotcha” appeal. The…
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