New addition

You've got to cool it now, ooooooh, watch out, you're gonna loose control...no, I'm just playing. As you'll see if you glance to the right, I've added the MediaMatters newsbox to my blog.

I decided to do this after being confronted for the third time in a week with the urge to recommmend their entire page, rather than link to a specific article. MediaMatters has been good for years, but with the Foley thing they've just been on a roll.

So now you can take it as a given I suggest you at least glance at those headlines once or twice a day. Follow up on the ones that intererest you; I may still be recommending specific articles, but not so much.

Thanks to Ink 19 editor/publisher Ian Koss for help with the tech talk.

BTW, any and all of you who use this blog as any kind of a news source, more fools, you-you should be using The Daily Show, of which the beforelinked story writes,

Jon Stewart may call “The Daily Show'' fake news. But a telecommunications professor at Indiana University said her research shows it has just as much substance as traditional network news.

I do recommend one more blog for those of you who are reveling in the hair-pulling Foley fiasco. Glen Greenwald has been going into it at great length, most recently with a post entitled,

Does the Foley scandal prove the existence of a God?

Excerpt:

The absolute refusal ever to admit error. The desperate clinging to power above all else. The efforts to cloud what are clear matters of wrongdoing with irrelevant sideshows. And the parade of dishonest and just plainly inane demonization efforts to hide and distract from their wrongdoing: hence, the pages are manipulative sex vixens; a shadowy gay cabal is to blame; the real criminals are those who exposed the conduct, not those who engaged in it; liberals created the whole scandal; George Soros funded the whole thing; a Democratic Congressman did something wrong 23 years ago; one of the pages IM'd with Foley as a "hoax", and on and on. There has been a virtual carousel -- as there always is -- of one pathetic, desperate attempt after the next to deflect blame and demonize those who are pointing out the wrongdoing. This is what they always do, on every issue. The difference here is that everyone can see it, and so nothing is working.