Where’s the Scandal in That? The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Sitting here on the porch listening to the coverage of the so-called IRS “scandal” on National Public Radio, also reading the latest Associated Press story on the…
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Effort Gains Momentum to Stop Koch Brothers’ Takeover of LA Times
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Don’t sell out to the Koch brothers, Don’t let the brothers in the door. We don’t want them taking over, That is what we’re marching for! That was the message, as sung by acclaimed musician Ry Cooder, carried by hundreds…
Americans Are Interested in Jobs and Effective Government, Not Gun Laws and Immigration Reform
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ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – While Congress is spending lots of time and resources trying to make laws to limit access to guns and bullets and reforming immigration, public opinion survey research indicates that more Americans think they should…
A Beach Hotel Conference Center is Not Coastal Restoration in Wake of BP Gulf Oil Disaster
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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been about three years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. By the time engineers finally figured out how to cap the…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: But There Will Be Video
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“…I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know … that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m…
Report Shows How Labor Unions Are Portrayed Poorly on National Network TV News
By Federico Subervi – As representatives of workers’ interests, labor organizations in the United States have had a long and complicated relationship with the corporate news media, according to academic research. For decades, several authors have contended that unions receive…
U.S. Economic Confidence Hangs in the Balance as Federal Sequester Approaches
By Glynn Wilson – Data from the Gallup Poll shows that the lack of an ability to compromise on the part of officials in Washington to avert automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts by the sequestration deadline of March 1 is…
Supreme Court to Consider the South’s Legacy On Voting Rights
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How can one be fair and balanced in the face of blatant, retrograde racism? The Washington Post is just now figuring out that at the top of the steps of Alabama’s old…
News Flash: Half the People in Alabama Are NOT ‘Conservative’
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – Reporting that Alabama is the most conservative state in the union is sort of like saying grass is green. Everybody already knows it, so what’s the point? How is that “news?” But…
The Red Queen Effect: You Can Choose Running in Place, Holding On to the Past
Or Watch the Spotlight Shining On the Future – “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – – The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson –…
James Hansen Receives Stephen Schneider Science Communication Award
James Hansen, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and author of the book, Storms of My Grandchildren, was presented with the annual Stephen Schneider Science Communication award this month, named for the Stanford…
Republican Party Scrambles to Survive: Fox News Benches Karl Rove
Karl Rove at a book signing in Birmingham, 2010 – By Glynn Wilson – As we reported the day after the presidential election vote of Nov. 6, the lying, spinning career of political animal Karl Rove is on the way…
Is the FCC Moving Towards Allowing More Media Consolidation?
Q&A – By Bill Moyers – The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote to relax a longstanding ban that prevents one company from owning radio and television stations and newspapers in the same city — a move that activists…
Karl Rove Called the Second Biggest Loser on Election Night
Bush’s Brain ‘Turd Blossom’ Suffers Meltdown on Fox News Over Ohio Vote – By Glynn Wilson – While President Barack Obama was clearly the biggest winner on election night and Massachusetts Mormon Mitt Romney was the biggest loser, some political…
Steer Clear of Hooverville on Election Night: The Republicans Will Be Armed and Dangerous
By Glynn Wilson – THE OTHER SIDE OF BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When I heard the Alabama Republican Party was holding its main election night party at a gun shop and firing range over the top of the mountain in Hooverville,…
Ignoring the Monster in the Room Won’t Make ‘Frankenstorms’ Go Away
The Big Picture/ By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — I’m thinking of my friends in Eastern Seaboard states today who brace for a “Frankenstorm” over the next couple of days. High pressure over Greenland is keeping Hurricane Sandy from…
Republican Attorney General Censors Alabama Public Television?
Memo Gets ‘Forever Wild’ Show Bumped on Eve of Vote Glynn Wilson Little River Falls near Fort Payne, Alabama by Glynn Wilson Is Alabama’s Republican Attorney General Luther Strange condoning censorship in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens…
The American Public’s Trust of the News Media Hits Record Low
by Glynn Wilson The Americans public’s trust of the news media hit a new low this year. Sixty percent of the people say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and…
Bill Moyers Interviews Craig Unger on Karl Rove
Bill Moyers interviews author Craig Unger about Rove’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering to once again affect the outcome of a presidential election. Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power, draws from my own work on Rove in the case of…
The Newsroom Season Finale: A Greater Fool
Picasso’s Don Quixote “I’m a loafer by nature, I’m too lazy to go hunting for authors who say what I already know how to say without their help.” – The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volume 1, Prologue,…
Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power
In a new book, author Craig Unger examines the return of Karl Rove, the man who masterminded the rise of George W. Bush from governor of Texas to a two-term presidency, who advised Bush during two wars in Iraq and…