Panel Peeves

Emily,
Bernie Goldberg is a wretched human being? Wretched? Really? I've read one of his books and seen him on TV commenting on issues, as well as reporting for HBO's Real Sports. I can't say I agree with everything he says, but I find myself agreeing or at least thinking about what he has to say. Bottom line, he is articulate and can back up what he says. You may disagree, but isn't that the point!? Why is he wretched -- because he calls into question how the media operate and looks to shed light on bias he believes, and in certain cases does, exist? To call someone wretched on TV, especially on PBS, where one expects a certain decorum not afforded on other networks, is pretty shabby, dare I say perhaps even wretched. You called the man wretched and did not bother to substantiate it -- that's wretched.

Emily,

The NY Times out to get Gov Paterson. The democrats believe that he cannot win re-elction. They want him out! The NY Times is trying to do to the Gov what it tried to do to John McCain during the 2008 presidential election trying to tie him into an affair with one of his sometime aides. You yorself acknowledged as much that the Times was wrong on the McCain story.

The NY Times is a very biased newspaper. Read it and weep.

ok - he's a fraud, a sychophant and and a revisionist. He only says things that will please Bill O'Reilly including his analysis of the Superbowl ads - some of which were, believe it or not Bernie, sexist.

Re. nasty annonymous blogers: Emily asks "who are these people?" The're the same people who write on the walls in public toilet stalls!

Those commercial humourless smiles - you see them in all advertisements, usually women smiling in the most inappropriate circumstances - waving a newely designed drain plunger as she undertakes unplugging her john - smiling while she lovingly holds a new type floor mop, or about to wash a handful of soiled diapers in a new brand detergent.
Even worse is the politician with his, "I'm such a good guy and I love my wife" grin all while he seeks to deny health-coverage to 45 million fellow citizens.
Perhaps they are all masocists - personal suffering and an inability to descern truth or consequences.
All those smiles - such a big part in media advertising and political coverage - Oh how I have come to despise those expressions.
Larry Hall - Ganaraska Think Tank - Port Hope, Ontario Canada