Good reporting and the need for journalists to investigate current events, to ferret out worthy stories and to eloquently present their findings to their readers are not about go away. Indeed, the diluted quality of reporting, prevalent during the past 8 years, can partly explain the downfall of newspaper publishing, but the physical medium of the newspaper publishing business itself was doomed to eventually lose its appeal. The web offers… Continue reading

Tags: internet, marketing, newspapers, publishing

I don’t know about you, but I have already read most of its articles, hours, sometimes even days, before I pick up my damp newspaper from our driveway in the cold morning air. I peruse the local information only because the local newspaper publisher is too scared of the Internet to fully embrace it. But that’s ok because its often poorly composed articles are rarely worth the paper on which… Continue reading

Tags: advertising, Economic Downturn, internet, newspapers, publishing, television

Real Time with Bill Maher reconvened for the seventh season this evening on HBO. Bill acknowledged that his role as America’s court jester will be more difficult under a new president who is neither “a horny hillbilly” nor an “illiterate dumb ass”. His first ever three-woman panel featured Maxine Waters, the Los Angeles Democratic House Representative, Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of TheDailyBeast.com and Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor of the Financial… Continue reading

Tags: Entertainment

After checking their spines with their coats at the Capitol, earlier today, and intent on forgetting the policies they had championed for 8 years, House republicans mechanically heeded to the hard lines that have helped bring down the world economy, refusing to recognize their primary responsibility in the unbridled spending of the last two decades (1994 to 2006), during which they controlled Congress.

In 2008, the Bush administration increased… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus, Taxes

The horse is not dead yet, but there is still a lot of beating going on… unedited C-Span footage has been featuring politicians in the House of Representatives or on the Senate floor, full of posturing, confusing and positioning language instead of what this nation needs: common sense.

Run the tape: the economy, under its own self-healing supervision – some believe – drove itself into the ground. The government… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus

Our economy is slowing down at a faster pace than anticipated. The daily announcements of market leading companies’ layoffs across all sectors and markets of the economy in service, retail or manufacturing, should provide enough reasons, for all the politicians on the Hill, to urgently implement an aggressive economic stimulative package. Congress must aggressively enact a bold move to create demand in our sagging economy, to slow down, and eventually… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus

OK, I finally got around to editing the many hours of video recording from the Inauguration. Here is the first installment of the series: this is from the train station in DC to the Mall and the arrival of President Elect Barack Obama. Walking from the train station down through the tunnels (no cars were allowed) and a brisk walk to the Washington Memorial. There, we realized how large the… Continue reading

Tags: Inauguration trip