In line with my last few posts, here are a few items from this week’s news: The day after I posted about the reshaping of digital journalism, the New York Times announced Josh Barro, a young writer who I have praised here before, would be joining up… more »

  With a tip of the hat to @BruceBartlett for facilitating the use of the term “wanker” to describe those fringe right-wingers who like to call themselves “conservatives”, I present The Conservative Self-Examination List to help my conservative friends… more »

  News Item: Verizon Communications announced today it is buying Intel Media, the chip-makers digital TV subsidiary. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian Fung’s blog post today at the Washington Post ‘s “The Switch” (“How Verizon plans to weake… more »

  The Federal Court of Appeals ruling last week vacating the FCC’s Open Internet Rules is yet another example of the telecommunications business becoming more oligopolistic. As a consequence of the 2002 FCC ruling that exempted broadband providers from… more »

The discovery last week that a toxic chemical had spilled into the Elk River is the latest in the series of environmental disasters that have occurred in West Virginia in recent years. The immediate consequence of the spill is that 300,000 of the state’… more »

  With the news this week that Falluja in Anbar Province had fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni insurgents, you can only shake your head at the havoc left behind after more than a decade of war in Iraq. We removed the Sunni-dominated Ba… more »