Wearing of the Green

| March 17, 2005

Is there enough green on this page? Being Dutch on my Mom’s side, I grew up with the notion that we were supposed to wear orange instead of green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Perhaps that’s a by-product of the intense anti-Catholicism of the Dutch Calvinist camp. That sort of attitude is understandable, given the anti-Reformation […]

Bias? Say It Isn’t So!

| March 14, 2005

From Reuters: Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. media coverage of last year’s election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger John Kerry, according to a study released Monday. Well, duh. I mean, really: duh. It oughtn’t to […]