By University of Navarra. Adults who watch TV for three hours or more each day may double their risk of premature death compared to those who watch less, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “Television [...]

By Kevin Galalae.    For over 65 years, the media has remained silent with respect to the eugenic and genocidal methods of population control employed by governments throughout the world under the auspices and impetus of the United Nations [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. As I like to say: History keeps happening. The events of recent days in the part of the world known as Iraq cannot be understood or explained without mastering a lot of history, going back well before the U.S. invasion [...]

  By Don Irvine. In an interview with the Toronto Star, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather criticized the changes in journalism that have occurred over the last two decades, saying that journalists have lost their guts and no longer [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. It’s no surprise, I suppose, that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a New York Times reporter who has been seeking to avoid being sent to jail for his refusal to testify about his sources. [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Hats off to NPR’s estimable media reporter, David Folkenflik, for a thorough, calm, balanced, well-reported piece about the recent succession crisis at the New York Times. What distinguishes Folkenflik’s [...]

    By David Swanson. Michael Arria’s new book Medium Blue: The Politics of MSNBC is a nice summary of how a liberal corporate or liberal partisan television network falls short — something of an update from Jeff Cohen’s Cable [...]

  By Don Irvine. Demonstrating his liberal bias, CNN president Jeff Zucker told The New York Times’ Bill Carter Monday night that he won’t allow CNN to be “shamed” into covering the House select committee on Benghazi hearings, [...]

By Don Irvine.   As the Malaysian Air flight MH370 coverage fades from CNN, so do the ratings, as the network hit its second-lowest ratings last Friday in the 9 p.m. hour. The time-slot, which was most recently occupied by Piers Morgan, [...]

    By Christopher Daly. I am very pleased to have had the chance to write about Art Buchwald. I grew up reading Buchwald’s syndicated column in the pages of the Boston Globe, so I jumped when the online project American National [...]

  2014 Annual Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner 5.1 During the second half of 2013 (and since then) there were a series of disclosures  in the media said to be derived from Edward Snowden, who was a contractor working [...]

    By Christopher B. Daly. When Hilary Clinton complained back in 1995 of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” trying to bring down her husband, she was not wrong. In fact, she and her husband’s political advisers were onto something: [...]

By Don Irvine. The Boston Globe reported that it has hired a commercial real estate broker to explore the sale of the newspaper’s headquarters building and property. The Globe’s chief executive told employees in a memo that the company [...]

By Don Irvine. In what has to be one of the more unusual moves to address a program’s falling ratings, NBC hired a psychological consultant to interview Meet the Press host David Gregory, as well as his wife and friends, according to [...]

  By the Nieman Report. Click here to read report: State of Journalism in China

  By Christopher B. Daly. The New York Times has a very uncharacteristic Op-Ed column today by lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower arguing that the Times should get in step with the rest of society and start printing a word we all know that [...]

By Joe Concha. Putin’s reviving a Stalin-era fitness program to toughen up Russians—with help from Steven Seagal. Why do today’s strongmen have such a weakness for our washed-up celebrities? Say what you will about Vladimir Putin. [...]

By Don Irvine. Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discus the impact that Obamacare will have on the mid-term elections. She said that the White House recognizes that it would be “political [...]