Staff / TruthdigJun 5, 2006
As the commencement speaker for a small Illinois college, satirist Stephen Colbert told the graduates, ?God wrote [the Bible] in English for a reason: So it could be taught in our public schools.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 30, 2006
Federal authorities are investigating dozens of TV stations for running "faux news broadcasts" made by government agencies and corporations. (Via Huff Po.)
Earlier: See the report that kick-started the investigation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 29, 2006
In light of the CBS crew that was just attacked (two killed, one wounded) reporting a routine feature story in Iraq, watch CBS reporter Lara Logan speak in late March about how these kinds of attacks are tragically all too common. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMay 29, 2006
Two members of a CBS News team were killed and a correspondent was critically wounded when the unit in which they were embedded was attacked. They were reporting a routine feature story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 26, 2006
During his May 23 show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that many young Americans have "no idea what's going on," stating that they get their news from Jon Stewart. Problem is, studies show that Stewart's viewers are better informed than most other media consumers -- considerably better than viewers of "The O'Reilly Factor." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 25, 2006
The actor best known for portraying an Army doctor on the TV show "M*A*S*H" writes that the HBO documentary series "Baghdad ER," about an Army emergency hospital in Iraq, made him want to scream in rage and frustration at the people who created this war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 24, 2006
Just before the start of a theater show in the East Village of New York, a woman on stage extols the virtues of London honeymoons. It's an advertisment that is itself advertised as the first live theatrical commercial.
Are those the four horsemen of the apocalypse I see yonder? Dig deeper
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2006
Salon writer Rebecca Traister examines why today's most prominent young female role models seem to be "jiggly video stars, boobie-flashing twits, half-clad clotheshorses and label-whoring anorexics." (Reg. or advert. req'd.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2006
The BBC takes a look at the philosophy of the show: "It's not that the Simpsons is atheist propaganda; its main target is not belief in God or the supernatural, but the arrogance of particular organised religions that they, amazingly, know the will of the creator." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2006
That's what Gen. Hayden said about the prewar Iraq intelligence failures. But there was no contrition for the domestic wiretapping activities he oversaw at the NSA. In contrast, he strongly defended the programs.
Well, now that he's taken responsibility, at least we know what we're in for if he gets confirmed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2006
The N.Y. Times' foreign affairs columnist has been saying that "the next six months" in Iraq will be the "decisive" ones--for the last two and a half years. FAIR documents a "long series of similar do-or-die dates that never seem to get any closer." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 15, 2006
The show that allowed us to feel idealistic about politics--if only for an hour a week--is signing off forever. Check out this interactive application full of fun facts about the cast and crew of the fictional administration that we desperately wished had been running the country for the last five years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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