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Sam Smith: The Amazing, Scary History Of FEMA
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 11:41 am | Sam Smith
This Undernews extra gives background on the amazing, scary history of FEMA and a bizarre funeral scandal that involves George Bush, one of his major contributors, the former head of FEMA and the corporation just named to handle body removal in ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Second Battle Of New Orleans
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 12:06 am | Sam Smith
THE SECOND BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS is already underway: a struggle over how to respond to the greatest natural disaster of our history. It is far too early to draw conclusions but soon enough for a few questions: More >>
Sam Smith: Echoes Of New Orleans
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:08 am | Sam Smith
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans And miss it each night and day - I know I'm not wrong... this feeling's gettin' stronger - The longer, I stay away - Miss them moss covered vines...the tall sugar pines - Where mockin' birds used to ... More >>
The Mediacracy: How Journalism Went Bad
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 10:59 am | Sam Smith
YOUR EDITOR has occasionally noted that when he started out in what was then the trade of journalism, over half the reporters in this country only had a high school education. Ben Bagdikian, a bit older, describes in his memoir, Double Vision, an ... More >>
Sam Smith: Born Again Economics
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 10:52 am | Sam Smith
WHILE A LOT OF attention is being paid to evangelical Christian extremism, far less is directed towards an equally dangerous religious sect - the practitioners of evangelical economic extremism. More >>
The Real Problem With Ed Klein's Hillary Book
Friday, 1 July 2005, 3:31 pm | Sam Smith
ONE ONLY NEEDS TO READ a chapter or two of Ed Klein's book on Hillary Clinton to understand the problem. It is written by - and in the style of - someone who has contributed to both Parade Magazine and Vanity Fair, two of the most unnecessary ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Glass Wall Of Media Coverage
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 10:16 am | Sam Smith
Dana Milbank's snotty attack on critics of White House behavior as revealed in the Downing Street memos illuminates a carefully concealed truth about the media: its definition of objectivity stops at the edge of anything left of center. Standard ... More >>
Sam Smith: Newsweek Resigns From The Free Press
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 2:34 pm | Sam Smith
Reliable sources inform us that Newsweek will no longer be using reliable sources. Instead it will be relying on such unreliable sources as professional message manipulators, bureaucrats with their asses in hock, political appointees on their way up, legislators ... More >>
Sam Smith: New Headlines Every Fifteen Minutes
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 12:03 am | Sam Smith
THE KORAN IN THE TOILET story proves, if nothing else, that in the semiotic tsumani known as Washington, they can spin it faster than you can print it. For example, the capital elite awoke to this story in the Washington Post by Howard Kurtz: More >>
Sam Smith: The GOP And Media Filibuster The Facts
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:27 am | Sam Smith
The coverage of the debate over judicial nominations is one more example of the media swallowing hook, line, and sinker the spin of the Bush regime. It is naturally in the Republicans' interest to emphasize the potential use of the filibuster by Democrats ... More >>
Sam Smith: Where Are The Christian Moderates?
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 1:00 pm | Sam Smith
The failure of Christian moderates to take on publicly religious extremists who claim the same Bible and theology sadly brings to mind the failure of liberals to take on Joseph McCarthy. As with McCarthyism, extremism thrives in the valley of fear ... More >>
Sam Smith: Pot- The Sina Qua Non Of A Drug War
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 1:43 pm | Sam Smith
The war on drugs was the first major test by the country's elite to see if Americans would willingly surrender their constitutional rights. It turned out that they would and so for the past twenty years invasions of civil liberties increased, America ... More >>
Sam Smith: Seventh Day Agnostics Arise
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 9:50 am | Sam Smith
As far as the government and the media are concerned, the world's fourth largest belief system doesn't exist. In number of adherents it's behind Christianity, Islam and Buddhism but ahead of Hinduism. More >>
Sam Smith: Media Objectivity Embalmed With Pope
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 4:01 pm | Sam Smith
An eight page slobbering special section in the NY Times, Cokie Roberts oozing from the Vatican, endless coverage on cable TV: not since the death of Ronald Reagan has the media so blatantly displayed its hypocritical indifference to objectivity when ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Hidden Issue On The Middle East
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 11:47 am | Sam Smith
Peace in the Middle East depends in no small part upon the parties dealing with an issue that is barely discussed: the demographics of Israel and Palestine. It is not the violent suicide rate among Palestinians that threatens Israel; it is the peaceful ... More >>
Sam Smith: A Brief Encounter With The Normal
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 12:42 am | Sam Smith
Upon reading the lead story in today's Washington Post the thought occurred that if I weren't a dissident journalist I'd make a hell of a member of the establishment. The thought quickly dissipated even though my futile arguments that the president ... More >>
Where Is The Counterculture When We Need It?
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 12:19 am | Sam Smith
The other day I got a call from a student working on a college paper about Coffee 'n Confusion, a Washington coffeehouse the local police had tried to close down in the late 1950s as an offense against the community's welfare. More >>
Sam Smith: Things To Do In The Bad Times (Updated)
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:12 am | Sam Smith
Since 1989, when the first Bush was inaugurated, the Review has offered suggestions to progressives on how to survive the forthcoming administration. Our suggestions for dealing with II Bush II will be added here from time to time More >>
Sam Smith: What If Things Are Getting Better?
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 2:24 pm | Sam Smith
There's a little secret to stock market investing that deserves wider application: when the major news magazines feature a market trend on their cover, go the other way. More >>
Sam Smith: The Bush Clinton Nexus
Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:39 pm | Sam Smith
A reader inquires as to why Bill Clinton and Bush the Elder are so chummy these days. This is another case where just considering the political aspect of the news lets you down. More >>
