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A CBS/New York Times poll found people voted for Dubya because of his good ol' boy charm and because they would feel less shit-scared about terrorism with him in the White House. As for the rest of his policies? They're kinda lukewarm, although the split is along Red State/Blue State lines. Americans are generally optimistic about [...]
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Here's a link to a story I did for CTV.ca on anti-social video games. A U.S. group released its annual warning about antisocial video games, but a University of Toronto professor says he's only really worried about a very narrow category of such interactive entertainment. Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor who studies childhood and adult [...]
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Bill Moyers, a standard-bearer of liberal political values on PBS, is leaving to write a book on Lyndon Baines Johnson, but he leaves U.S. public television at a bad time, writes the Village Voice: few weeks ago, Bill Moyers, the venerable face of progressive current-affairs analysis on television, warned that the next four years were set [...]
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Since “moral values” were reportedly at the core of Apocalypse 2004, you'd think that would be be reflected in people's TV choices. But the Godless Blue State goose and the morally exemplary Red States like their sex and violence in the same-sized portions, according to to this NYT article. he results of the presidential election [...]
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Dan Rather has announced he'll step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News on March 9 — making it 24 years since he succeeded Walter Cronkite. I was shocked by the relatively muted triumphalism at FreeRepublic.com. He will, however, continue as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II. Here's some stories about [...]
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