It's a proven fact that media outlets are now owned by a smaller circle of bigger companies than ever before. With RSS inter-connectivity, it's easier to fill online space with repeats of the news than digging out news that is actually new. more »

Envision for a moment a command going out to all of China from Party central that on such and such time and day, everyone in China who has access to a computer must... more »

Conspiracy theorists must be having a field day. To believe them, man has never walked on the moon, Obama is not a US citizen, and Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot JFK. Oh wait a minute, one of these is true! more »

Media is confirmed by a major news event. CNN was defined in Iraq War The First as we watched breathlessly while rockets attacked Israel. CNN still held the throne during 9/11. But the Internet has been growing and eating up market share and ad revenues, forcing the traditional media to scale back at the same time Internet news has been scaling up. more »

Keyshawn Johnson in his day was labeled a destructive influence in the locker room (as witnessed by his book, "Just Give Me The Damn Ball") pretty much in the same category as TO and Randy Moss of the current generation of NFL players. As usual, the med… more »

Interesting to note as well that the penalty for the pipe is more than double that of the suspected contents in the pipe. To me, this brings up several issues. more »

The media is supposed to be the watchdog for society, not the pump primer for scary stories and fear mongering. I can only hope that we, as a society, start wising up and turning off, tuning out the media. more »

So, let me get this straight, the chumps who couldn't hit him because they were mediocre get rewarded, and the guy who is clearly the best player in the league gets punished. It's this pursuit of mediocrity that is ruining America. more »

Rather than condemn, or fluff our feather proclaiming how much better and more civilized we are as a country, why don't we lead by example. Use the stage that has been set in China to open the Chinese citizens' eyes, impress them, inform them, motivate them. more »

I read the news today, oh boy! It was about the super sized confederate flags waving high in the South. It's the nature of things in America that a big brouhaha will develop out of this. Fascinating. I find America's decade long kowtowing to politic… more »