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Is Obama lucky or protected
Worldview Item of the Day Writing for the FoxNews Fox Forum weblog, Richard Miller suggests that Barack Obama is lucky that the Blagojevich scandal did not break before he was elected. I wonder if Obama is lucky or protected.
Posted in Ethics, Government, Journalism, Media, News, Politics, Society, Worldview Item of the Day
Tagged Corruption, Media, Politics, Protections
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Four days to go
And the polls start to tighten a bit. Actually polls tightening it the days before an election is not an uncommon occurrence in elections in general. What is a less common occurrence is a media outlet actively refusing to release … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Ethics, Government, Journalism, Media, News, Politics, Society
Tagged Bias, Elections, Media, presidents
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Such old news
The Times of London reports on a “secret” plan by the Pentagon to develop a spaceplane capable of carrying Marines to hotspots around the world in a few hours. Readers of Worldview might note that I have discussed this program … Continue reading
Posted in Future Military, Journalism, Media, Military, News, Writing
Tagged Bad Journalism, Marines, Space
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An element of hypocrisy
There’s a message on my home answering machine from the local McCain campaign office essentially begging me to come down and run a telephone for them sometime in the next eighteen days. More than likely, I will not return that phone call or help the campaign.
Why? Because I believe my position as a writer creates a conflict of interest for me that I cannot overcome. It is not just writing her on this weblog that creates a problem, but also the fact that I work as a reporter and an editor for my college newspaper where my beat is, among other things, politics. […] Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Ethics, Government, Journalism, Media, Politics, Weblogs, Writing
Tagged Ethics, Independence, Journalism, Politics, Writing
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