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...surprise that the old lions of the Christian Right are suddenly sputtering. "This is raising my blood pressure," admitted the normally calm, Mr. Rogers-sounding Dobson at the end of his radio show on Tuesday. Just a few weeks earlier, the conservative columnist and former Moral Majority vice president Cal Thomas wrote an essay calling Obama a "false prophet." Placing Obama's "Christianity" in quotes, Thomas charged that the candidate's statements about religion - including his belief that non-Christians can get to heaven - prove that he does not understand what it means to be a Christian...
...college campuses and that they have the freedom to report on any news they see fit—regardless of what is written about the people in authority. Yet, this year we were also reminded that the freedom of the press comes with serious responsibility. In February, a columnist in The Campus Press at the University of Colorado at Boulder published a racist piece that targeted Asian students. The fallout from this piece demonstrated the substantial power of news and media organizations on campuses...
...Clymer particularly noted that, over the course of his career on The Times, he especially enjoyed his role in training a number of journalists, including E.J. Dionne ’73, a current Washington Post columnist and former Crimson editor; Gerald M. Boyd, the first black managing editor of The Times; and Pulitzer Prize-winning Times columnist Maureen Dowd...
...your TiVo, sure that you've outrun those pesky advertisers. But have you? Despite all the ways Americans try to skip over ads and get to the good part, "we live in a world defined by more commercial messages, not fewer," proclaims Walker, the New York Times Magazine Consumed columnist and author of this fascinating new book. What's worse, he argues, most of us are unwitting participants in our own personal Truman Show. "We can talk all we want about being brandproof, but our behavior tells a different story...
Some collections of columns are a lazy effort to wring a few more bucks out of dated material. Not this one. Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times who spent a decade at FORTUNE, energetically updates some of the biggest business stories of the past two decades. Warren Buffett, T. Boone Pickens Jr. and Henry Blodget, among others, get the close-up Nocera treatment, which uses their stories to explain the intricacies of business to readers. His smart writing and keen insight are a treat for those who find Steve Jobs a more compelling celebrity than Britney Spears...