Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL Silent about the nation’s poor
By E.J. Dionne Washington Post
Last update: October 17, 2005
It has long been said that Americans have short attention spans, but this is ridiculous: Our bold, urgent, far-reaching, post-Katrina war on poverty lasted maybe a month.
Credit for our ability to reach rapid closure on the poverty issue goes first to [...]
Media Channel, NY Submitted by editor5 on October 17, 2005 - 2:21pm.
By Jim Romenesko Source: The Poynter Institute
From BILL LYNCH, retired CBS News correspondent: There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller’s Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller’s revelation that she was granted [...]
The Independent, UK (h)
When will peace return to Iraq? When will the terrifying cycle of bombings and suicide attacks abate? When will the people have food and electricity? When will they be able to walk the streets in safety? When will our sons and daughters return home? How will it all end? In this special [...]
The Nation
Over a single week in October, the President’s entire coalition suddenly seemed in danger of unraveling. There’s no doubt about the political import of Republican fratricide over George W. Bush’s nominating Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, perhaps betokening the long-overdue rupture of the patronage bargain between the President and the religious right. But [...]
Australian, Australia October 14, 2005 (h) Zbigniew Brzezinski
ABOUT 60 years ago Arnold Toynbee concluded, in his monumental Study of History, that the ultimate cause of imperial collapse was “suicidal statecraft”. Sadly for President George W. Bush’s place in history and, much more important, ominously for America’s future, that adroit phrase increasingly seems applicable to the policies pursued [...]
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Wednesday, October 12, 2005; 1:21 PM
Is the Bush White House starting to buckle under all the pressure?
To the extent that there are any long-simmering internal divisions and fault lines within the White House, one would certainly expect them to surface about now.
The blundering response to Hurricane Katrina, the dismal approval ratings, [...]
The Independent, UK By Nigel Morris Home Affairs Correspondent Published:Â 13 October 2005
Most of Iraq is in a state of anarchy, with insurgents controlling parts of Baghdad just half a mile from the so-called Green Zone, an Independent debate was told last night.
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, whose new book The Great War for Civilisation: [...]
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