Vanity Fair Misses the Point Vanity Fair Misses the Point
Vanity Fair has released a cartoon cover online in response to the New Yorker's swipe at the media coverage of the Obamas. The fake Vanity Fair cover shows John McCain, in a walker...
Jul 23, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
No Bail Out – No Bail! No Bail Out – No Bail!
As the Bush administration unveiled a publicly-financed plan to "save" mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, local residents at a town hall forum in Miami were ca...
Jul 15, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Homes, not Hearings Homes, not Hearings
Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one million people were displaced after ...
Jul 10, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Dissing Doctors Dissing Doctors
U.S. doctors are wondering if this might be the first year since 2002 that Congress won't intervene to keep Medicare fully funded, since lawmakers failed to pass legislation before...
Jul 1, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
No to Solar and No to Clean-up No to Solar and No to Clean-up
So much for the Government's much touted commitment to alternative energy. The New York Times reports that the Bush administration has placed a nearly two-year moratorium on the co...
Jul 1, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Shelling Out for Shell Shelling Out for Shell
Free trade... Free oil contracts... There it is again, that cute word "free." Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had th...
Jun 20, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Of Weddings and Wedges Of Weddings and Wedges
In times like these, when many people's rights and benefits are shrinking, it's easy for the Right to set us at each other's throats. And if the past is any guide, that's just what...
Jun 17, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Russert (and a Million Others) RIP Russert (and a Million Others) RIP
If there was one topic that focused media attention this weekend, it was the death of one of the industry's own: Tim Russert. Russert's passing provoked praise and grief and mourni...
Jun 16, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Big Oil “Saved?” Big Oil “Saved?”
The Windfall Profits Tax Monster Is Back," so headlined the Houston Chronicle. The GOP's defeat of a bill that would have put a 25% excess, or "windfall" profits ta...
Jun 11, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Was Gloria Steinem Right? Was Gloria Steinem Right?
Want to see my two cents on the question of whether Gloria Steinem was right? This Saturday at the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform, Roberto Lovato and I were asked to comm...
Jun 9, 2008 / The Notion / Laura Flanders