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After my previous column about the movies in The News-Gazette's Best Christmas Movies Ever miniseries, I spent some time looking through other lists of top Christmas movies and unearthed some curious phenomena. You can find best-Christmas-film lists on the internet consisting of anywhere from five.... |
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Are the news stories we Americans read, see, and hear FACT OR FICTION? A loaded and sharply-divisive question in these partisan high-tech times. No wonder the Oxford Dictionaries recently proclaimed “Post-Truth” to be the Word of the Year. Our Cover Story comes from Senior Correspondent Ted Koppel:
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No one really knows what effect fake news and WikiLeaks had in undercutting Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances in the United States presidential elections last month. In addition to claims that Russian hackers had interfered in the election process in order to help Republican candidate.... |
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Security forces patrolled the tense streets of Kinshasa on Sunday after the suspension of last-ditch talks to find a peaceful way out of the nation’s political crisis sparked by the end of President Joseph Kabila’s mandate. Negotiations to agree a way forward for the Democratic Republic of Congo.... |
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Each week, we offer a Q&A with a local personality. Today, 59-year-old Champaign resident Sue Aldridge , a longtime drama/English teacher, drama director and auditorium manager at Centennial High School, chats with The News-Gazette's Paul Wood . Aldridge, who grew up in Bloomington, is about to take a final bow this spring. |
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Are the news stories we Americans read, see, and hear FACT OR FICTION? A loaded and sharply-divisive question in these partisan high-tech times. No wonder the Oxford Dictionaries recently proclaimed “Post-Truth” to be the Word of the Year. Our Cover Story comes from Senior Correspondent Ted Koppel:
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This year is quickly running out of time to impress me. Next Sunday is Christmas, and the Sunday after that is New Year's Day. These things have a way of sneaking up on you, even if you spend hours every night staring at the calendar, counting the number of days until the sun explodes and vaporizes the Earth. |
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Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, last week appeared at a joint press conference with Lands minister, Douglas Mombeshora, and rapped some small-time land barons which his counterpart said were being hunted by the police. Kasukuwere expressed concern at peri-urban illegal settlements.... |
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Anniston, AL (36206) Today. Cloudy with periods of rain. Morning high of 52F with temps falling to near 40. Winds NNW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.. Tonight. Cloudy early with some clearing expected late. Slight chance of a rain shower. |
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John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, Crown Forum, 2009, 272 pp., $26.00. John Derbyshire is one of the few grown ups still writing for and his articles, blog postings and “Radio Derb” podcasts are about the only reason to visit National Review Online (NRO). |
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With our radio partners at WDWS set to count down the top 10 local stories of 2016, we asked one last panel: Who's your pick for Person of the Year? MOSS BRESNAHAN. CEO, Illinois Public Media. And the winner is ... the late GWEN IFILL. Why her? "Gwen was a journalist's journalist — tough, honest, hardworking, authentic. |
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