CBS Sunday Morning

She-who-must-be-obeyed loves CBS Sunday Morning.
It is pretty good. I listen to it as I sit at the computer.

Today they had a segment with Ted Koppel interviewing Sean Hannity. Mr. Koppel deprecated the fact that ever since the FCC dropped the Fairness Doctrine [ if a broadcast airs a view, it must make time to air the opposing view] in the late 1990s, political radio has become strident and one-sided and divisive.


It's the Internet.
Blame the Internet.


The Internet revolutionized communications.

Just as did the printing press.

They printing press oversaw the era of Martin Luther, yet it also nurtured Thomas Muntzer and chronicled the Peasants' War.

If the Internet is revolutionary, how do we make sure the revolution does not eat her children?

 The Internet Devouring His Children

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Conservative Obscurantism

The American Spectator
 http://spectator.org/articles/57083/mandela%E2%80%99s-african-cold-war

What Mandela called an “armed struggle,” Margaret Thatcher had called something else in 1987 when she described the ANC as “a typical terrorist organization.”

Written by a man who loves to relive The Cold War. The acme of his life may have been the wise Reagan years.

Margaret Thatcher knew terror. The IRA was after her in 1987. I knew many good Americans of Irish descent who supported the IRA  at the time, lending support, sending contributions, etc. Now some of them read stuff like this and do not bat the proverbial eye.

Not one word about reconciliation in the article, arguably the most important contribution Mr. Mandela made to his country. Reconciliation did not exist in The Cold War. No one even imagined of reconciling with one's erstwhile enemies.
So you figure, is this writer a step forward or a big lummox step backwards.

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