I’m rather stunned at most of the media coverage of the coverage of the bailout vote that I’ve encountered so far. For example, this morning I’m listening to Steve Inskeep ask questions that appear to mostly be premised on the belief that this vote should have passed. Phrases like “deliver your share of the votes” [...]
With the weekend news of banks that had survived even The Great Depression going under or being bought out, NPR aired several stories about the financial crises during Morning Edition.
One was a report by David Kestenbaum about the tricky politics of inviting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to perform a “check-up” on U.S. government economic [...]
I’m listening to the reading of the Declaration of Independence on NPR this morning as I read the news.
I am not encouraged as the two hundred and thirty two years old litany of complaints echoes through my head and I compare them to the nature of the recent news an analysis (see the clippings at [...]