Stories, Music and Film

I Think I May Say, Without Fear of Contradiction…

                                                                                                                    The New Yorker, 1938 News Item: ABC cuts Hank Williams, Jr for comparing Obama to Hitler. Of course he didn’t compare any such thing, as any 9th grade English student would know. But in the zeitgeist of the times,…

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Stories, Music and Film

AP Manipulates Good News out of Afghanistan Into Bad

                                                                                                      Photo: Emil Emric/AP Deb Reichman, of AP posted this headline on 29 Sept: Afghanistan violence up 39% over 2010 She goes onto say: The statistics show that the intensity of the nearly decade-old war is growing, not abating, as…

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