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,…
“A Matter of Fact,” a new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, challenges the Washington Post to correct George F. Will’s “Dark Green Doomsayers” column, published February 15th. The report, by CAP’s Brad Johnson, asserts that George Will made three factual errors:
Current “global sea ice levels” equals those of 1979
There hasn’t been warming in “more than a decade”
“Global cooling” joins a list of well publicized “planetary calamities that did not happen.”
Will’s column is not perfect,…
Regardless of your political party or ideological leanings, the notion of the federal government spending $2 trillion, adding to the national debt of nearly $11 trillion already, should make you stop and consider the staggering size of our national tab.
If the irony of using debt-based spending to solve a problem caused by debt-based spending has escaped you, perhaps these fun facts will put things into perspective:
If you spent $1 every second, you’d have to keep spending for 412,000 years to get…
The Future of American Communications (FACT) working group funded by the Media Democracy Fund released its official report on the 26th of January. The report, which carries the working group’s recommendations to President Obama, offers up some various proposals that purport to hold promise for the future of the Internet.
As the title, “…and communications for all,” suggests though, there is an underlying current of argument that Internet access is a right, and therefore should be treated as a utility (and here,…
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