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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Economic Crisis Debate Running Mates Momentum ACTION Amid all the finger-pointing, Democrats and many Republicans agree that Barack Obama may now have a potentially decisive advantage. The furious electorate seems to...
To the editors: In “Servitude Nation” (Op-ed, Sept. 18), Daniel P. Robinson criticizes efforts by Senators Obama and McCain and the coalition of 114 organizations called ServiceNation to promote voluntary national and community service. Robinson uses a series of “straw-men...
Mind you, I'm not saying that business reporters failed at their jobs by not adequately foreseeing the disaster. I'm not saying they didn't, either - the thing about media criticism is that you can't possibly be an expert on everyone's beat, and I don't pretend...
Now, there are many reasons mass-market business reporters might not answer this question of degree. Maybe nobody really knows. (In which case, they have an obligation to say unambiguously: nobody really knows.) Maybe they fear creating a panic, and at the same time fear not having anticipated a disaster...
Whatever the explanation - caution, confusion, failure to communicate - the upshot is that the straight business press has left a vacuum in explaining the consequences to the public. And that vacuum has been filled by professional gabbers like Glenn Beck and James Cramer, both of whom were predicting a possible Great...