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BILL BENNETT Host of the radio show Bill Bennett's Morning in America The reporting from the mainstream media has been shameful and biased. There's a disposition to believe any bad news, whatever the source, and an indisposition to believe the good news, no matter how reliable. The media reward themselves for leaking classified information--which may be a violation of the law--give Pulitzers for that. We're in a war, and I don't think a lot of the media think we're in a war. They think that it's some kind of skirmish, largely contrived...
...chief. Hall has published 18 books of poetry--including a 1988 collection called The One Day that took 17 years to write, and two books about his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon. A "grateful" and "frantic" Hall says he would like to start a poetry channel on satellite radio or get poetry some airtime on cable TV. Can versifying reality stars be far behind...
...Shortz doesn't spend all his time at the Times. He is also the puzzlemaster for NPR's Sunday morning news show. ("I'm blessed," he says, "to work for the two greatest news organizations in the country: the New York Times and National Public Radio.") He occasionally contributes puzzles to Games. And since he was 25 (he's now 53), he has run an annual crossword puzzle tournament at the Marriott in Stamford, Ct. He founded it in 1978, mostly out of an urge - a strange one, considering the solitude in which crosswords are constructed and solved - to meet...
...hotel guest's options when it came to musical entertainment were limited to Muzak on the blackened channels of the TV, or the tinkling of a lobby pianist. Nowadays, of course, you can carry your entire CD collection around with you on an iPod - and there's also Internet radio with thousands of online stations[an error occurred while processing this directive] available for free through your laptop. Don't know how to choose between them? Here are four surefire hits for while you're on the road. LIVE365.COM The world's largest Internet-radio network offers some 300 genres...
...Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, which caused some 100 deaths and 4,000 cancer cases. Nuclear advocates say that plant would never have met international standards, and that the lessons of past mishaps make today's reactors safer than ever. Visiting Australia last week, Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore told ABC Radio: "Within 10 miles of U.S. nuclear reactors, 80% of the people support the reactor, because they have seen it operating for 10, 20, 30 years without any incident." A recent study by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ansto) found that harm to public health from a nuclear plant...