Talking Heads

In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.

For the second year in a row, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ventured to Capitol Hill and urged Congress to let more foreign-born engineers work in the United States and to direct larger numbers of tax dollars to research and education. Just as he did around the same time last year before a U.S. Senate committee, Gates on Wednesday contended America's competitiveness in the global economy is "at risk." He said Congress, the administration, and the next president must commit to overhauling immigration policy and encouraging both public and private research investment.

An MSNBC correspondent compares Ron Paul to a terrorist on live television, claiming he represents the al-Qaeda wing of his party.

What news network leads the pack, many times over, in its transmission of gratuitous sexual material and violence? Fox News, of course. Robert Greenwald takes a look at Fox News and its use of gratuitous sex and violence. Here’s a clip:

Television and the Internet are making children disruptive, disrespectful and greedy, government-backed research has found. A study by the National Consumer Council will warn today: 'Those who spend lots of time in front of the TV and computer screen are more materialistic. 'These children argue more with their family, have a lower opinion of their parents and lower self-esteem.'

Now... imagine this kind of terror... a school shooting where eight people are killed and eight others wounded. That was the scenario today for a mock disaster drill in Mason. As Local 12 Reporter Jeff Hirsh shows us, the idea is to get ready for something you hope never happens.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will begin asking inmates this week to sign up as organ donors. It's believed to be the first inmate project of its kind in the nation. According to the Donor Network of Arizona, about 96,000 people nationwide are waiting for a transplant. In Arizona, about 1,400 residents are waiting for the lifesaving call.

If your 14-year-old is sitting in front of the TV for hours a day, your concerns about your teenager's education may be borne out.

That's because watching three or more hours of television a day leads to poor homework completion, negative attitudes toward school, bad grades, and poor performance in college, according to a recently study published study.  

 

Imused (I-must) verb - To lose one's job, or to be pilloried, for lack of racial sensitivity or political correctness.

 

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