According to Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society newsletter: “Fox News, of ‘Fair and Balanced’ fame, has released the results of a survey just completed, revealing that 92 percent of Americans say they believe in God, 85 percent in heaven and 82 percent in miracles…. “Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say they believe… Continue reading
Dan Kennedy: “Boston today is largely a franchise town, as Globe columnists such as Joan Vennochi bitterly lament from time to time. Nothing has contributed to that status more than the transfer of New England’s dominant media organization to out-of-town ownership.”
Jay Fitzgerald makes some excellent points about ‘knight of the keyboard’ Dan Shaughnessy’s recent coverage of the ALCS for the New York Times….
Here are the stakes, as New York Times writer Harvey Araton sees it: “Fear is not something Steinbrenner hides well. You can smell it on him all the way from Tampa. His Yankees have not won the World Series since 2000, not a very good advertising campaign for his cable network, which is dedicated to… Continue reading
Read this for a sample of some of the bitterness hanging over the San Francisco Bay area after this past weekend of baseball.