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About Me
- ROBERT STEIN
- editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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- Hillary's Next Mate
- Media Mania Over Mitt's Mutt's Mishap
- Pakistani President's Wobbly War on Terror
- Rove's Mugging of the McCains
- Romney Exclusive on Larry King Live
- Fancy Footwork for the G.O.P.
- The Price of Law and Order
- Undoing America
- Debating by the Book
- The Ecology of Coulter-Edwards
- Scalia Spanks the Chief Justice
- Dwarfing Jon Stewart
- Funny Lady
- Cheney's Busted Flush on Iran
- Blonde Bombshelling the News
- Salad Dressing Secrets and Our Own
- Stop-the-War Senate Numbers Almost There
- Killing Field Without a Scorecard
- Hillary's Drudges
- Exit Cheney, Enter Fred Thompson?
- Murdoch and More
- "Reasonable Republican" Ready for Plan B
- Journalism 101: Crossing the Line
- No Escape for Newsworthy Americans
- Obama's Trash Talk
- Book-Contract Baksheesh
- Cheney's Bucket of Warm Spit
- Fred Thompson: Re-Defining Dirty Old Man
- Bloomberg's Best Bet: Run as a Democrat
- Save Our--Repeat, Our--Ship
- Love, Actually
- Poor John Edwards
- Bush-League Supreme Court
- Nutsy Fagin Conservative Notions
- McCain: Dead Man Walking
- Vice-President Punchline
- The Friend of My Enemy Is My What?
- Bush's Nose Dive Isn't Over
- Ralph Nader's Finishing School
- The Summer of Our Discontent
- Bush: Saving the Never-to-Be-Born
- Three-Way Subway Series
- Thatcher Tutorial for Thompson
- Mr. President, With All Respect, Shut Up!
- Bloomberg the Iffy Independent
- ABC's Terrorist PR
- Political Bar Mitzvah Boys
- The Colin Powelling of Petraeus
- Bush and Cheney, Meet the Burkes
- A Gift From the Heart
- Voters: "Wake Us When It Starts"
- Can Romney Get It Right?
- The Surge: Sunday Talk-Show Smokescreen
- W the Centrist: Right-Wing Robotspeak
- Dieting to Die For
- Worse Than Bush: Blair Knew Better
- Soprano Spinoffs
- Cheney's Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- American Stature: The Long and Short of It
- Barbara Walters, Paris Hilton and the Pope
- Can't Wait
- Why I Hope Bush Pardons Libby
- Smooth-Talk City
- Michael Moore, Cheap-Shot Messiah
- YouTubing to the White House
- Chalabi: Our Iraqi Cockroach
- Cancel the California Primary
- Sound of High-Heeled Shoes Dropping
- The Silly Season Is Early This Year
- Dr. Reagan and Mr. Cheney
- Vicious Political Vaudeville
- Role Reversal in Iraq
- Rather's Remedial Journalism for Couric
- Sopranos' End? Start Here...
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- Beyond Paris Hilton and Tony Soprano
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- Immigrants
- With Friends Like John Bolton...
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- Wall Street Journal: The Zoo
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3 comments:
Michael Moore is certainly a bundle (ok, big bundle) of contradictions.
He criticizes the costs of health care, but his own life style contributes to this. A study last year in the Journal of the American Medicdal Association showed that, even correcting for socio economic status, Americans are less healthy than Europeans. It seems a safe assumption that Moore's weight is an example, which applies to other Americans, of why this is so, increasing the cost of health care,
Moore also does a good job of showing the faults in our health care system, but also white washes the problems elsewhere.
My review of Sicko is at:
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1716
Does someone have to be perfect in order to point out an ill in society?
Did you eat Stephen Colbert?
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