Current national and global events.
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, July 1, 2005: In this morning’s papers, we read again of local officials asking people to informally not waste water, before conservation steps are ordered. Again, they say there is no shortage, just that it’s summer and yada, yada, yada. In previous summers, though, there have been no mummers […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, May 22, 2005. So … if the International Red Cross says some Americans in some way desecrated the Koran in front of Iraqis, Afghans or other Muslims (with comparable incidents already reported months ago as part of the Abu Ghraib initial and follow-up reports — and now somehow forgotten) […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, May 12, 2005: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the whole body should confirm the nomination of cranky John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Comedians and humorists need easy material. Not to mention cartoonists. -30-
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, May 2, 2005. The news has been full of a woman in Georgia who just before her wedding disappeared. The times being the times, allegedly the family presumed kidnapping or even that the fiance killed her. The police, according to the AP, considered this a criminal case. This young […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, April 1, 2005. The paradox of broadcast journalism. It’s known for immediacy and visuals, especially compared to print. CNN and similar channels have brought 24/7 continuousness to the medium as well. This emphasizes its demand for the NOW, as opposed to print’s process: Gather a lot then push it […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, February 11, 2005: One from Column A and one from Column B. Let’s play! ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea declared itself a de facto nuclear power Thursday, claiming in its strongest terms to date that it had “manufactured nuclear weapons” to defend itself from the United States. ASSOCIATED PRESS […]