The Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute argues that, while it is not necessarily a bad thing to cover racial issues, the media has been doing so improperly this election season.
Some anti-war outlets still seem all-too-willing to court the company of Ward Churchill, the controversial professor known for calling the victims of September 11, 2001 “little Eichmanns.”
An average Venezuelan student led 200,000 people on marches against Hugo Chávez’s constitutional reforms. For his efforts, Yon Goicoechea is this year’s recipient of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.
Given the popularity of Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s respective talk shows, it appears Americans share a disdain for political elitism. A democratic, populist, anti-aristocratic thinking pervades the general population.