Culture
Goodbye, Paula! Hooray!
It’s about time! We’ll finally get to watch American Idol without having to keep one finger on the fast forward button. Paula Abdul, the “judge” often mocked for not being able to say anything negative (which should have disqualified her from being a judge right off the bat; cheerleader? yes, judge? no), is finally... »
American Idol Rigged? Why Am I Not Surprised?
Lyndsey Parker reports on an ex-American Idol contestant who publicly stated that the show is rigged and offered several interesting insider tidbits on what goes on with the contestants. Among them: “They pay for our lawyers to negotiate against their lawyer (which is BS),” said. “They make us COLLECTIVELY choose... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]