Newton Minow, a former board member of the Federal Communication Commission, wrote a book a few years ago attacking TV and famously saying it had produced "a vast wasteland," inhabited by comatose Americans watching soaps and quiz shows...
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06 December 2000
They'd rather die than admit it, but environmental organizations thrive on disaster. They remember well enough what happened when Ronald Reagan installed James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. Hardly had Watt hung his elk head on his...
29 November 2000
Exactly this time a year ago, a truly prescient person monitoring bus, car and plane traffic into the city of Seattle could have predicted that Al Gore's presidential bid faced serious trouble on its left. The mostly young people pouring...
22 November 2000
Over the past eight years, Environmental Protection Agency director Carol Browner has visited Chicago more than a dozen times. Each time she comes to the Windy City, Browner has requested that Ronald Harris, an EPA staffer at the Region 5...
16 November 2000
During the first several days after the election, many of
America's leading pundits were very distressed. Some even appeared to be on
the verge of freaking out as they vented major anxieties: It's upsetting
that we still don't know who...
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