Month: February 2007

  • Great campaigning column from Rubén Rosario of the St Paul Pioneer Press…

  • B@£$%cks to bowling…

    I have been wading through the works of lone-bowling theorist Robert Putnam for reasons too dull to share. Putnam’s worthy, weighty tome – Bowling Alone – makes its point by the pound. Joy then to read a journalist who pops Putnam’s balloon in one short, pointy article. Step forward Nick Lemann.

  • Jeremy Bowen

    Stephen Pollard’s attack on Jeremy Bowen has gained some new supporters, according to the Jerusalem Post. Andrew Balcombe, chairman of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland, has written to the chair of the BBC Trust, Dr Chitra Bharucha, following a leaked e-mail Bowen sent last month that questions Bowen’s impartiality as he appears to…

  • CBB media coverage in India…

    In case you thought it was just the British media that got kicked for coverage of CBB…here’s an Indian reader from the Patna Daily: The biggest irony with Indian media is its obsession with insignificant issues and its ability to transform such trivial matters into a national debate. At the same time, it is well…