Aug 20 Unplanned Aberration: How Mosque Discussion Got Derailed If the camera had continued rolling Monday night at the NewsHour after I completed a segment on the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque, you would have seen me beating my head against the anchor desk. I am not… Continue reading
Aug 20 Conversation: Director Yael Hersonski Puts New Lens on ‘A Film Unfinished’ In 1942, a Nazi crew arrived in Warsaw, Poland to begin filming in the Jewish ghetto, just months before its razing and the deportation of its terrorized inhabitants. In her new movie, "A Film Unfinished," Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski attempts… Continue reading
Aug 18 Mom Says the Darndest Things: 10 Questions for Kelly Oxford By Tom LeGro Kelly Oxford started writing an anonymous blog more than seven years ago after spending a lot of time online reading sites about child-rearing. What she found were places where fellow mothers could communicate with each other, but they just weren't… Continue reading
Aug 17 Bobby Thomson’s Famous Home Run: ‘Scripted Like a Movie’ For generations of baseball fans, Bobby Thomson's dramatic 9th-inning home run off pitcher Ralph Branca in the deciding game of the 1951 National League playoffs remains one of the sport's most iconic moments. With the announcement that Thomson died… Continue reading
Aug 17 The College Mindset List: No Cursive Skills or Cold War Fears There are lists we like - the New York Times Best Sellers List comes to mind - and lists we can live without. Now comes a list guaranteed to make most of us feel -- old. But still worth checking… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Author Disconnects From Communication Devices to Reconnect With Life In this day and age, much communication is done by e-mail, text messages, Twitter and other forms of digital communication. William Powers, author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," explains how… Continue watching
Aug 13 Leaning Left and Right: Why Labels Won’t Help This Year OK, folks, it's time for another of my periodic forays into definitional politics. To accomplish this, I have to take my own profession to task - and then rise to its defense. The problem: we reach too easily for shorthand. Continue reading
Aug 11 Pew Report: U.S. Broadband Adoption Slows, but Blacks Gain Ground The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its Home Broadband 2010 Report Wednesday, revealing a dramatic slowing of broadband adoption by Americans this year, but showing notable growth in use by blacks. Among the findings were statistics… Continue reading
Aug 02 Arizona Dispatch: SB 1070 Through a Photojournalist’s Lens PHOENIX | When Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, was signed into law in April, it was just a normal day for Arizona Republic photographer Nick Oza. He was out shooting other events for the newspaper when he got the… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Jean-Michel Cousteau Dives Into Tales of Famous Father’s Legacy Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the famous oceanographer, has written a new book, "My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau," about his father's legacy and his relationship with him as a friend, confidante and employee. Jeffrey Brown has more. Continue watching