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What's your favorite Bill Moyers TV moment? Here are some of mine.

Bill Moyers plans to end his PBS show and retire from television at the end of next April, according to Nov. 20 story in the New York Times.  That night, with no fanfare, there he was at the helm of his Journal, drawing out lessons for Pres. Obama from ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Moyers,  Joseph Campbell,  PBS,  New York Times Company,  Barack Obama

What Does Cleveland's House of Horrors Reveal About Us?

Meanwhile, the gruesome discovery has sparked questions and soul-searching in some corners - and protests over excessive media coverage in others. Funerals were held this weekend for four of the 11 women whose bodies were found in a Cleveland, ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anthony Sowell,  NPR,  Richard Prince

Journalism professor, students face subpoenas and accusations - what does it mean for the rest of us?

At the same time that leading journalists and scholars are calling on college journalism programs to help fill the void left by the decline of newspapers, a court case in Illinois is raising questions about the legal status of student journalists that ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Northwestern University,  David Protess,  Innocence Project,  Anthony McKinney

Anna Deavere Smith "Lets Us Down Easy" in the Health Care Debate

"When I hear the official language [of the health care debate] it makes me suppose that this is a time when we need a lot more art that's not going to have answers that are in black and white. " Back in 2000, Danny Schecter published notes from a ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anna Deavere Smith,  Amy Goodman,  Tom Wolfe,  Blogher,  Terry Teachout

John Allen Muhammad, "Beltway Sniper" and Gulf War Veteran, Set to Die Tonight

"Muhammad is the sort of soulless killer who puts death penalty opponents like me in a moral bind. We don’t believe in the state putting anybody to death, including irredeemable thugs like Muhammad, but we—or at least I—wish they were dead. I resent ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Allen Muhammad,  Lee Boyd Malvo,  Michelle Malkin,  Al-Qaeda

Memo to Rep. Joe Barton: Young adults need health insurance, too.

Of all of the claims and counterclaims spouted during yesterday's floor debate in the House of Representatives, I was most stunned by Rep. Joe Barton's assertion that 10-15 million uninsured young adults don't want health insurance: "Congressman ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  Joe Barton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  New York Times Company,  Erik Johnson

AP: Chris Christie Wins New Jersey Governor's Race

UPDATE: At 10:07 pm, the Newark Star-Ledger announced over its live stream that the Associated Press has called the New Jersey Governor's race for Chris Christie. The polls are closed in New Jersey, and the news is favorable for the Republican ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Christopher J. Christie,  New York Times Company,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jon Corzine

New Jersey's Topsy-Turvy Race for Governor

The mudslinging between incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican nominee Chris Christie has so tedious that an upstart independent bid by veteran policy wonk Chris Daggett has got some folks thinking he could be the Brooks-Brothers version of ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jon Corzine,  Christopher J. Christie,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Christopher J. Daggett

Journalism is dead. Long live journalism!

A new report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism -- the home of the Pulitzer prizes, no less --  suggests that government funding might be a necessary part of the solution for preserving independent local news reporting. The ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,  Jeff Jarvis,  Federal Communications Commission

Soledad O'Brien, Lou Dobbs, CNN and "Latino in America"

"She is in total command of the subject matter and seems so finely tuned to the nuances of assimilation, multiculturalism and changing notions of identity that you can't help but trust her after just a few minutes of watching. And she forges that same ...

From KIM PEARSON, BlogHer,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lou Dobbs,  Soledad O'Brien,  Janet Murguia,  George Soros,  White House

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