“Kudos to you for not engaging in the irresponsible, almost unconscionable blather the mainstream media is producing regarding the space shuttle. Since September 11th, the flood of coverage has made journalism (especially the cable news channels) in this country into a pack of starved wolves, salivating over anything they can sensationalize. Sadly, the loss of the Columbia is the newest bloody feast.” – he’s particularly tough on Fox News. This and much more on the Letters Page.
WHAT’S WRONG HERE? The always readable Oxblog finds something fishy about this Washington Post piece about the marvels of Saddam’s food distribution program.
THE PIANIST: Easily the best movie I’ve seen in a while. It follows the arc of a classic Holocaust trajectory. We know where it ends. But the details of gratuitous Nazi savagery; the incidents of human goodness that prevail even in the worst form of hell; the first-person, endless, draining survival story that leaves you hopeless yet somehow relieved; the sheer randomness of fate; and the importance of war to deter evil: this film manages to convey all of it in a metaphor of soundless music.
The Dish 