Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 29, 2008. "We all know it's bullshit, but like so many other zombie narratives, here's an old perennial stomping its way through the graveyard."
Ellen Goodman, Washington Post Writers Group. September 29, 2007. When 40 kids were asked to create a new town, was it possible for them to escape the model of cutthroat competition, class divisions and unrelenting consumerism?
Mary Mapes, Huffington Post. September 22, 2007. Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS reawakens the scandal over his departure and the crass politics of big business journalism.
GottaLaff, AlterNet: PEEK. September 19, 2007. GottaLaff: Dan Rather was told in 2004 that he was losing his CBS radio show, effective immediately, because of pressure from the right wing.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. July 12, 2007. It is inexcusable that television networks, one of the best public sites for widespread education about safer sex, is acting coy at the cost of young women's fullest lives.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 30, 2007. Listening to retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste, you sense his intense loyalty to the military where he served 31 years. So why did CBS News fire him as a paid news consultant?
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. May 16, 2007. Other than the desire to shock listeners -- and thereby create controversy, grow audiences and sell advertising -- the current spate of repulsive shock-jock gibberish all share something else: a salary from CBS.
David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. May 7, 2007. David Sirota: Would you rather get your news from those who admit their biases or those who claim they have none?
MSNBCApril 12, 2007. MSNBC announced it will no longer air "Imus in the Morning," but unless CBS cancels the radio version of the show, Imus will continue to have a forum for his racist comments.
Rory O'Connor, David Olson, MediaChannel.org. January 26, 2007. CBS's chief foreign correspondent notified peers that the network won't broadcast her grisly Baghdad story "that is largely being ignored."
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. November 22, 2006. The network may have paid ample tribute when the newsman recently passed away, but that doesn’t make up for shelving his hard-hitting report in 2004 about how the country was misled into war.
