American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Media Succumbs to the Wealth Effect

New York City is lousy with rich people. OK, we get it. But New York City is also lousy with blind journalists.
I realize that rich people make interesting copy, as evidenced by this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine section, which does an extremely lightweight job of analyzing their impact on the city. But what rich [...]

Wall Street Journal’s Pathetic Apology

All I can say is, don’t shoot the messenger:
But how can any responsible journalist not be disgusted by the Wall Street Journal’s apology today?
Senator Carl Levin’s office called yesterday to say we gave him far too much credit, or blame as we had it, for his role in the misbegotten 1993 law that limited the [...]

Scared

I just came across an article I missed from the middle of September. Newsweek reported on a website called MarryOurDaughter.com. The site appears to be under construction right about now, but here is what it had offered (according to Newsweek): “a matching service for followers of ‘the Biblical tradition’ of arranged marriages.” It allowed people [...]

Torn – Another O’Reilly Cover-Up?

I am not a big Bill O’Reilly fan… Well, technically I guess that is not true. Every now and then when nothing else is on TV I like to flip to his show to get a good laugh about some ridiculous belief he has about how people in this country actually are or his take [...]

Fair and Balanced

I am not a big fan of Fox News. I try to avoid every aspect of it, even its logo bothers me. Every now and then when I am up for a laugh or want to get riled up about something I will flip it on for a few minutes and laugh at Bill O’Reilly [...]

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