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December 2008

December 29, 2008

The Mailbag

Welcome to a quick, year-end mailbag; a sampling of reactions to some recent ombudsman's columns and some letters from earlier in the month that I didn't have a chance to post. Here are the letters: Regarding that NOW poll back... More »

December 22, 2008

Going to the Circus?

Last month, Jim Lehrer, the editor, part-owner, father and anchor of PBS's flagship news offering, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, was honored by Oklahoma University's College of Journalism and Mass Communications for another one of his accomplishments: a role model... More »

December 18, 2008

It's Back

What is broadly described as the "Armenian Genocide" — the epic saga of what many, but not all, historians and many, but not all, countries describe as the genocide against the Armenians carried out by the Young Turks of the... More »

December 10, 2008

Heeere's Hugo

While I was away during the Thanksgiving holiday, a couple of related things happened. Venezuela held important state and local elections around the country on Sunday, Nov. 23, and PBS's Frontline series broadcast a 90-minute documentary about that country's controversial... More »

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