Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model for conventional corporate journalism collapses and digital technologies reshape the media landscape, journalism schools struggle with parallel problems around curricula and personnel.

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We on the left need to begin striking back at the lying Right.  We can begin by bringing a small ray of truth to their dark little corner of the Internet.  Here is my contribution to one popular Brownshirt blog:
 
To my Right Wing friends at Moonbattery.com,

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The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan—seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of times, Washington can be isolated from the rest of the country and world. Now the imperial city—and most of the politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who run it—seems to be reenacting an episode of the incomprehensible television series Lost.

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The death of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, The Associated Press and Defense Secy. Gates

This is a difficult subject to objectively examine and is an issue as old as written communication and the visual arts themselves.  The depictions of war, carnage and all the resultant horror form a thread in narrative and pictures from the time of Homer through Goya and Matthew Brady to the present. 

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On the issue of Iranian nuclear arms, the U.S. imperils its own national security by continuing to function in a dreamworld, denying the unfairness of its position, which is based on Likudnik propaganda rather than reality. Only after opening its eyes will Washington be able to devise a negotiating position that will attract the serious attention of Tehran.

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Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881 - 1973) said

"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."

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Ironically, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was traveling to the United States to promote his latest film about post-9/11 racial profiling when he was detained upon entry into the country at Newark’s Liberty (another irony) International Airport. U.S. officials denied that Khan was formally detained, but his interrogation lasted more than an hour. The outraged Khan pledged to cut back on visits to the United States, and his incensed fans held a raucous protest. I feel Khan’s pain—literally.

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