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Blood on the Lens
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 12:50 pm | Walter Brasch
“If it bleeds, it leads” is local TV’s aphorism that dictates its belief that fires, car crashes, and shootings lead off the nightly newscast. These stories, of course, are more “visual” and easier to cover than poverty, worker exploitation, ... More >>
Blood on the Lens
Monday, 11 July 2011, 2:57 pm | Walter Brasch
“If it bleeds, it leads” is local TV’s aphorism that dictates its belief that fires, car crashes, and shootings lead off the nightly newscast. These stories, of course, are more “visual” and easier to cover than poverty, worker exploitation, ... More >>
Govt May Violate Tobacco Companies' 1st Amendment Rights
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 2:32 pm | Walter Brasch
A controversial US Supreme Court decision less than two years ago could have the unintended consequence of significantly reducing the government's 46-year campaign against cigarettes. More >>
Gov May Be Violating Tobacco Companies' 1st Amendment Rights
Monday, 4 July 2011, 1:13 pm | Walter Brasch
A controversial US Supreme Court decision less than two years ago could have the unintended consequence of significantly reducing the government's 46-year campaign against cigarettes. In a 5–4 decision, largely along political lines, the Supreme ... More >>
Questions Remain in Government's Anti-Cigarette Campaign
Friday, 24 June 2011, 3:46 pm | Walter Brasch
The federal government has launched what may become one of the most effective propaganda campaigns in American history. Beginning September 2012, every cigarette manufacturer must display one of nine government-approved graphics on the top half, both front ... More >>
New Hampshire or Bus: Sarah's No-Campaign Campaign Tour
Monday, 13 June 2011, 2:34 pm | Walter Brasch
Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin "One Nation I'm Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow" bus chase. More >>
New Hampshire or Bus: Sarah's No-Campaign Campaign Tour
Monday, 13 June 2011, 12:23 pm | Walter Brasch
Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin "One Nation I'm Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow" bus chase. Following her were about two dozen reporters and photographers from the national news media, ... More >>
The Last Dance: Prom Night in America
Friday, 10 June 2011, 11:52 am | Walter Brasch
It isn't cheap to attend a high school prom. Emulating Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, or any celebrity that People magazine naively believes is one of the 50 most beautiful people in the whole wide world, is an avalanche of expenses that could easily exceed ... More >>
The Last Dance: Prom Night in America
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 12:37 pm | Walter Brasch
It isn't cheap to attend a high school prom. Emulating Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, or any celebrity that People magazine naively believes is one of the 50 most beautiful people in the whole wide world, is an avalanche of expenses that could easily exceed ... More >>
A Few Cutting Remarks
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 3:13 pm | Walter Brasch
Throughout the country, the taxpayers have been revolting. Shocked by the enormity of the taxpayer revolt, and the untimely retirement of several hundred politicians, today's current legislators, civil servants, and business executives have suddenly ... More >>
Memorial Day 2011: Two Names That Matter
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 11:45 am | Walter Brasch
Unless you were in a coma the past few years, you probably know who Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton are. You heard about them on radio, saw them on television. You read about them in newspapers and magazines, on Facebook, Twitter, and every ... More >>
A Few Cutting Remarks
Monday, 30 May 2011, 12:32 pm | Walter Brasch
Throughout the country, the taxpayers have been revolting. Shocked by the enormity of the taxpayer revolt, and the untimely retirement of several hundred politicians, today's current legislators, civil servants, and business executives have suddenly ... More >>
The Audacity of Hate: Birthers, Deathers, Deniers, and Obama
Friday, 27 May 2011, 11:40 am | Walter Brasch
The latest garbage spewing hate as it circles the Internet in a viral state of panic continues a three year smear against Barack Obama. The attacks had begun with the extreme right wing spitting out Obama's full name—Barack HUSSEIN Obama, as if somehow ... More >>
Promises, Promises; OR, It's legal to Lie to Voters
Monday, 16 May 2011, 11:02 am | Walter Brasch
With less than a week before the election, Marshbaum has been campaigning furiously. "A chicken in every pot! Natural gas drilling will save the universe. Free health care for everyone!" "Marshbaum!" I commanded, "you can't make those kinds of promises." ... More >>
The News, It Is a-changin'
Friday, 6 May 2011, 1:56 pm | Walter Brasch
It was a little before 9 a.m. I was chatting with two students. Another student came in, and asked if we had heard a plane had hit a building in New York City. We hadn't, but I assumed it was a light private plane, and the pilot had mechanical difficulty ... More >>
The News, It Is a-changin': bin Laden and the Mass Media
Friday, 6 May 2011, 1:54 pm | Walter Brasch
It was a little before 9 a.m. I was chatting with two students. Another student came in, and asked if we had heard a plane had hit a building in New York City. We hadn't, but I assumed it was a light private plane, and the pilot had mechanical difficulty ... More >>
Look for the Union Bunny
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:29 pm | Walter Brasch
Bullied, harassed, and lied to, District 1 of the Amalgamated Association of Easter Bunnies, AFB-CIO (American Federation of Bunnies–Cottontails International Organization) went on strike, forcing a halt to this year’s Easter egg hunts in Wisconsin. More >>
A Crock Pot Tax-Exempt Ideal
Monday, 11 April 2011, 1:11 pm | Walter Brasch
A wall of suffocating heat nearly vaporized me as I walked into Marshbaum's house. In the kitchen was a portable kiln spewing fiery venom that was curling the linoleum. In the den, wildly pumping a potter's wheel flinging clay all over the room, was ... More >>
Charlie and the CBS Factory (and other news)
Friday, 25 March 2011, 2:12 pm | Walter Brasch
There has been a lot in the news this past week. Most important, if measured by getting most of the ink and air time, is the continuing soap opera, “Charlie and the CBS Factory.” The latest in a seemingly never-ending story is that after Charlie Sheen ... More >>
President Obama: MIA in Labor's Struggle
Monday, 21 March 2011, 11:33 am | Walter Brasch
As expected, Michael Moore, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka were in Madison, Wisc., to support and rally the workers in their fight against the union-busting governor and Republican-dominated state legislature. More >>
