Yesterday Palestinians chose Mahmoud Abbas to be their new leader. Later this month, Iraqis go to the polls. In a part of the world with few democratic regimes, newsrooms in the Arab world have the rare challenge of covering two free elections.
New Year Resolution
Dante Chinni Political Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and senior associate at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism speaks about social security, the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General and the certification of the Presidential election
» Christian Science Monitor
» Christian Science Monitor
Teacher's Prayer
Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education at New York University and author The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003) says parochial school teachers make low salaries which will cause windfall to public school system
» Diane Ravitch
» Diane Ravitch
A Historic Moment for Arab Media
Nadia Bilbassy, senior correspondent for Al Arabiya in Washington, shares the view from Al Arabiya in Washington
» Al Arabiya
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Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and senior non-resident scholar at the Saban Center at Brookings ...
» Al Arabiya
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Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and senior non-resident scholar at the Saban Center at Brookings ...
Wasting No Time
David Blum adjunct professor at Columbia School of Journalism, television critic for the New York Sun and author, TICK…TICK…TICK…The Long Life and Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes (Harper Collins, 2004)on various media stories including Rupert Murdoch consolidating power and the CBS 60 minutes report
Rather Important
While we knew the Independent Review Panel would issue their CBS report sometime soon, we were surprised to have it occur during our show. Lucky for us we in the midst of putting together a media segment for the show anyway. However the 60 Minutes story blew most of ...
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