As you might have heard, the national pastime’s regular season ended Wednesday night in a ho-hum sort of way.
Drone on about Just War
I’d like to look at a fairly recent Washington Post story about drone warfare. But before we look at it, let’s go back to June and look at a New York Times story on the same topic. Headlined “War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs,” the article is about the growth of drones. There were fewer than 50 a decade ago. Now there are 7,000. Some spy as well as strike. Manned aircraft are on the way out while the Air Force is training more remote pilots.
God & gays: BBC on the Marin Foundation
Got news? Clock ticking louder in Iran
I’m still using Google News to search for mainstream news media reports on the fate of the Iranian pastor who faces the death penalty for being a Muslim apostate, even though he has never practice Islam.
Questioning the presidential candidates
Let’s pretend for a minute that you get to spend 30 minutes with any presidential candidate. What questions would you ask? How would you shape those questions that makes sense for your readership?
Missing religion for the trees
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who became the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, died from cancer on Sunday. Here’s how the New York Times explained her significance in its obituary:
Hate groups, lies and misinformation
About a month and a half ago, a little-known company called the Charity Give Back Group, or CGBG, started making headlines â and not the kind likely to win the company’s public-relations staff any bonuses.
Got news? One doomed Iranian pastor (ho hum)
Once again, we find ourselves in the parallel universe of alternative, advocacy, alternative, “conservative news.”
Survey: media biased, inaccurate and immoral
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press put out the results of their latest poll on public opinion of the media. And the results weren’t too good. But, on the other hand, they weren’t all bad. Here’s how Pew put it:
