Contrasting takes on a culture controversy
Thursday, February 4, 2010
I WAS LONG AGO INITIATED into membership of my tribe, a band that's ragged and leaderless, but often gung-ho. That would be the clan of Western journalists who were captured early in our careers by Africa - and our fascination with the continent remains enthusiastic, even obsessive. That much is often very clear in these columns of mine. more >>
National accounting, overseas outlay
Thursday, January 28, 2010
FOR A SELF PROCLAIMED agent of change, Barack Obama sure handles the media in a same old, same old fashion. more >>
Reports aplenty - anyone reading them?
Thursday, January 21, 2010
THERE'S NOTHING JOURNALISTS LIKE more than a public figure who puts out open and direct statements – unless of course it’s one who lies, and we get the chance to probe mercilessly. So you’d think it would be laudable for President Barack Obama to have confessed (through spokesman Robert Gibbs) that he was “surprised” at the Democrats’ stupendously bad showing in Massachusetts. more >>
DAVID TERESHCHUK has written for many US publications including The New York Times, and am New York, where he began "THE MEDIA BEAT" as a weekly column. He has also contributed to The Guardian, The Observer, and the New Statesman in London.
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