Many Americans have seen the digital dream of global
communications vividly expressed on TV commercials for Cisco Systems. Eager
to promote its theme of "empowering the Internet generation," the giant
high-tech firm paid for a lot of...
01 March 2001
Gushy reviews began as soon as George W. Bush stepped away from the
podium in the House chamber. On NBC, Tim Russert explained that the
performance was especially impressive due to the new president's personal
history of being podium-...
27 February 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- A character in the "The Red Fox" observed that all government comes down to three questions:
- "Who benefits, who profits?"
- "Who rules the rulers?"
- "What the hell will they...
22 February 2001
Henry Kissinger usually has an easy time defending the
indefensible on national television. But he faced some pointed questions
during a recent interview with the PBS "NewsHour" about the U.S. role in
bringing a military dictatorship to...
15 February 2001
The power to depict history is entangled with the power to create
it. George Orwell observed long ago: "Who controls the past controls the
future; who controls the present controls the past." And so it is in 2001,
as American media...
08 February 2001
In Africa, 17 million people have already died of AIDS. In
developing countries around the world, twice that many are now HIV
positive. Such statistics are largely unfathomable. And news accounts
rarely explore basic options for halting...