NewsTrust - Media - Most Recent Stories: Opinion (Mainstream)

Scandalous vs. Scandal Lust

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CHARLES M. BLOW - May. 16 (Opinion) - I have watched in recent days as a parade of conservatives have used specific and real governmental missteps to justify their wide-ranging paranoia and irrational hostilities. “Aha!” You have to take their glee in sorrow with a grain of salt. For them th

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Cascading Confessions

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MAUREEN DOWD - May. 15 (Opinion) - Two of the hot topics trending on Twitter Tuesday were Angelina Jolie and the I.R.S. Beauty and the Beast. Jolie stunned the world with a New York Times Op-Ed article explaining why she decided to have a preventive double mastectomy once she learned that

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Great Degrader

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - I’ve been focused on economic policy lately, so I sort of missed the big push to rehabilitate Bush’s image; also, as a premature anti-Bushist who pointed out how terrible a president he was back when everyone else was praising him as a Great Leader, I’m

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Tom Brokaw on the Lohan-ization of the White House Correspondents’ dinner

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Roxanne Roberts, Amy Argetsinger - Apr. 26 (Comment) - The veteran NBC newsman has recently become a vocal critic of the gaudy celebrity dominance of what used to be a media-political dinner.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Reddit vs. the Media

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - Apr. 18 (Comment) - Two days after the tragedy, Wolf Blitzer of CNN attracts a crowd as he waits to go on air in Copley Square, close to the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 17, 2013. Boston has been inundated with media from around the country and the world.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

'War on Whistleblowers' Film Highlights Dangers of Crackdown

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By John Knefel - Apr. 17 (Review) - A still from Robert Greenwald's film 'War on Whistleblowers' Greenwald describes the philosophical underpinnings of the national security state as two-fold. The first is an ideological belief that extreme secrecy results in increased security – "a notion

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Antisocial Network of Bitcoins

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL KRUGMAN - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Bitcoin’s wild ride may not have been the biggest business story of the past few weeks, but it was surely the most entertaining. Over the course of less than two weeks the price of the “digital currency” more than tripled. Then it fell more than 50 perce

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Is media bias to blame for lack of Gosnell coverage? Or something far more banal?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - The trial of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell would seem to have all the elements of a spectacular news story: Shocking allegations, horrifying visuals, sympathetic victims. Yet until late last week, much of the national media was silent as testimony about Gosnell’s alleged “house of horrors” abortion clinic rolled out. Much of the media attention outside Philadelphia, in fact, centered on how little media attention the story was receiving outside Philadelphia. ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

All Politics Is Economic

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Masha Gessen - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Latitude: How Politics Controls Russia's Media Business

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Apr. 14 (Comment) - World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the way the world farms. As food experts gather at two major conferences to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected to be alive in 2050, leading scientists have told the Observer that food insecurity risks turning parts of Africa into permanent disaster areas. Rising temperatures will also have a drastic effect on access to basic foodstuffs, with potentially dire consequences for the poor. Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's 15 international CGIAR crop research centres , which study food insecurity, said: "Food production will have to rise 60% by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demand. Climate change comes on top of that. The annual ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The fun-filled ocean resort at Guantánamo Bay |

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 28 (Advocacy) - A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda If you're looking for a fun activity-filled resort to take your family for a summer vacation, you simply cannot do better than Club GTMO, according to a new glossy travel guide just published by Robert Johnson, the Defense Editor of Business Insider, under the guise of a news article. Scrumptious meals. Video games galore for the kids. Outdoor sports. Newspapers from your hometown delivered by smiling bellhops to the front door of your villa. Picturesque Caribbean vistas. All that and more can be yours - provided that you're "compliant". What more could vacationers - or prisoners kept in a cage for more than a decade with no charges thousands of miles away from their family - possibly want? They are, proclaims Johnson, treated "absurdly well". Not just well: absurdly well. They are, he actually writes, lavished with "resort treatment". The context for Johnson's glowing ...

NewsTrust Rating: 4.5 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Lesson of Mitt Romney’s 47-Percent Video: Be Nice to the Wait Staff?

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - Mar. 13 (Opinion) -

NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Social media help make conclave a historic one

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 10 () - by Rachel Zoll The Associated Press Published Mar 9, 2013 09:54PM MDT Vatican City • A pastor in Ontario wondered about behind-the-scenes politicking ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope. He could have read news reports or listened to briefings by the Vatican spokesman. Instead, he asked a cardinal. Less than an hour later, the response arrived. “What I see is a real desire to know, and so evaluate, the papabili against criteria of qualities demanded by situations,” wrote Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, using the term “papabili” for cardin... ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Senators Bearing Arms

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - Whenever talk turns to gun control in Congress, lawmakers feel compelled to mention their love of weaponry. “I’m probably one of the few who have a pistol range in my backyard,” said Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont on Thursday...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Truthers of Pakistan

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Huma Yusuf - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Conspiracy theories persist in Pakistan because they often turn out to be true, author argues.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

White House correspondents' dinner: Conan O'Brien too safe for 'nerd prom'? (+video)

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 21 (Review) - The White House correspondents' dinner is about the hippest thing going, by D.C. standards. The host is always a big deal. So what does Conan O'Brien bring to the table? ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Can Iceland lead the way towards a ban on violent online pornography?

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - The country prides itself on its progressive attitudes, but anti-censorship campaigners say move is a backward step Small, volcanic, with a proud Viking heritage and run by an openly gay prime minister, Iceland is now considering becoming the first democracy in the western world to try to ban online pornography. A nationwide consultation has found wide support for the move from police and lawyers working in the field of sexual violence, along with health and education professionals, according to Halla Gunnarsdóttir, adviser to the interior minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Ministers are now looking at the results. "We are a progressive, liberal society when it comes to nudity, to sexual relations, so our approach is not anti-sex but anti-violence. This is about children and gender equality, not about limiting free speech," she said. "Research shows that the average age of children who see online porn is 11 in Iceland and we are concerned about that and about the increasingly violent nature of ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

From political 'House of Colbert', a South Carolina candidate called Lulu

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 09 (Comment) - Elizabeth Colbert Busch, also known as 'Lulu,' is running to fill a vacated South Carolina congressional seat. Does it help that her little brother is Stephen Colbert? ...

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Why the Arab awakening depends on social entrepreneurs for lasting success

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Iman Bibars, - Feb. 06 (Comment) - Social enterprise is naturally democratic and plays an important role in finding solutions to the social upheaval of the Middle East For two years, I have resisted use of the term Arab Spring to describe the events that have been unfolding in Egypt and the Middle East and North Africa. It is an unrealistic label to use, its application verging on naïve, even lazy, in this situation. Spring is a time where something with strong roots, carefully nurtured, flourishes and grows. We are not there yet; I hope that we may be soon. What the world witnessed in the initial 18 days of uprising and subsequent political and social developments was a rediscovery of our ability to effect change, a realisation that mass protest is one way to make our collective voice heard. But just as the myriad causes of that uprising had been entrenched in our society since long before the 25 January 2011, so have we seen in the two years that followed that they will not be solved by demonstrations alone. The voices ...

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Tax the revolving door: Column

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Glenn Harlan Reynolds - Jan. 30 (Advocacy) - The problem with ethics rules for this sort of thing is that they tend to be ignored, or distorted. So I say, let's involve the most effective behavior-control machinery in America: The Internal Revenue Code.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The responsibility of privilege

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Noam Chomsky - Jan. 25 (Interview) - (video)

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Latitude: Turkish Media Won't Report Good News About The Kurds

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrew Finkel - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - A massive Kurdish funeral procession in eastern Turkey was a well-ordered, dignified display of grief, but the Turkish media wouldn’t show it.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Dim Hopes for a Free Press in China

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Xiao Shu - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - Investigative reporting and opinion commentary are the two high grounds of Chinese journalism, and the Communist Party has cracked down on both.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Sales jobs rely on social media

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - From itinerant Yankee peddlers crisscrossing the U.S. after the Civil War, to Dale Carnegie's best-selling books on the art of salesmanship, American capitalism has often been driven by advances in the plying of wares.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Year in Review: A look back at 2012

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - Dec. 28 () - WHAT SHOULD YOU REMEMBER FROM THE YEAR THAT WAS? 2012 was full of triumph and tragedy. Here's a look back at the year that was.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average - 3 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer