A.P. to Reorganize Work

This link takes you to a NY Times report on my former employer for 25 years and how it's changing in the new media environment.

Tired of Fox?

I heard about GoLeft.tv on Air America during the weekend.

Fox has advertisers, yes? Do you patronize them? What's the obvious conclusion? Look at FoxAttacks.com for suggestions. One video clip therein shows Rupert Murdoch saying it's time for business to work on environmental problems -- juxtaposed against Fox clips saying it's all a hoax.

Some things have to be said, he said

Crooks and Liars tipped me to this devastating op-ed in the Denver Post by a current lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department. He expects retribution, so this is a good time to take note of the name Koppel, John S. Koppel, DOJ lawyer since 1981, and see if Bush pardons someone for damaging Mr. Koppel in the next year or so. He complains from the inside about how badly we are led. Our beloved country needs more whistle-blowers.

While we're in Crooks and Liars, scroll around and see the withering attack Michael Moore lays on Wolf Blitzer, CNN, the rest of the media and the kitchen sink. It's here.

Good question, Michael Moore: "Why don't you tell the truth to the American people?" Well, that is sort of a rhetorical firestorm. But it has a useful ring to it.

Not receiving CNN on the TV apparatus I bought in Tokyo in 1989, I have to troll around the blogs to find this stuff. The advantage is: No commercials. Well, there are those little ads all over the place. And in fact the TV would gladly show me CNN. I just don't pay for all that cable.

Angler

David Letterman announces that the Washington Post is running a four-part series on the vice president, so I better get a link to it up here.

If I'm a little tardy with this, at least our county party has already passed a resolution demanding impeachment of Dick Cheney. It was on June 11.

New Yorker free online

It's a little surprising to be able to read everything in the New Yorker online. Maybe it's a short-term promotion. But anyway, it all seems to be there, even the cartoons.

The link.

The current issue has some top-notch political articles: Goldberg on the dismal standing of the Republican Party, Toobin on Bush's packed Supreme Court, Hersh on the dismissal of the general who investigated Abu Ghraib.

Chris Matthews said it

Exciting times on TV -- Chris Matthews says one of the bad words. Heat of the moment?
Crooks and Liars has it.

Eating like a Cuban

Gleanings from a Herald blog on Cuba: The AP correspondent in Havana, Anita Snow, is trying to live on a Cuban’s rations. Not having much good to eat, she reports.

News of the Veep

I didn’t see the debate last night, and I was wondering whether they brought up the impeachment resolution Dennis Kucinich has filed against Dick Cheney. Didn't find it in the Miami Herald. The New York Times has it in the national briefs section, with an additional mention that Brian Williams asked the other candidates if they agreed with Kucinich that Cheney should be impeached. No one raised a hand.

So much for impeaching the vice president. Well, there's a resolution drafted now in the House Judiciary Committee, and we'll see. Meanwhile, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported it the other day, so at least the people of China have had a chance to hear about it.

Curious how the big media do not understand why people are moving to the internet for their news, huh?

Well, if you do a Google search of the internet for “impeach cheney” you’ll see lots of hits. One of the most rewarding is the YouTube video of Cheney cartoons, to the tune of the song “Bang Bang.”