AUSTIN, Texas -- You know how refreshing it is when someone in politics
just up and tells the flat truth? I hope she doesn't get fired for it, but
Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign, did so after George W.
got "off-message"...
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14 January 2000
And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless
media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A
grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed
themselves trustees...
13 January 2000
Have you noticed that the system of justice in this
country is shutting down, piece by piece by piece? We have long noted the
deleterious effects of "tort reform" here in Texas, where insurance
companies are ever bolder, and injured...
12 January 2000
On Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ninth anniversary of the Gulf war, 10 people will begin a month-long fast on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. They're members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Chicago-...
11 January 2000
So here we are in the Year Aught, the millennium's over,
the Christmas tree is down, we're in debt, and here comes January, February,
Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese. Now is the winter of our discontent, so I think
we ought to coordinate our...
07 January 2000
A few numbers tell a dramatic story about extreme changes in media
fascination with the Internet.
After the 1990s ended, I set out to gauge how news coverage of cyberspace shifted during the last half of the decade. The comprehensive...