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Low wages, cruel bosses, no rights
Here’s a recipe for social unrest:
Beijing – It’s a steamy evening in the cramped dormitory room where Huang Benlin spends his nights, and violence is on his mind.
He is a small wiry man in a grease-stained shirt, a migrant worker from a small village in Sichuan province who has suffered 24 years of low wages, [...]
Mencken’s Birthday
H.L. Mencken, who was born on Sept. 12 in 1880, definitely would not liked to have lived this long. But he would have had plenty to write about. Happy Birthday to one of America’s greatest journalists, essayists and curmudgeons. I originally named my cat after him, but when he failed to produce any ascerbic remarks [...]
D. Willis, Media Whore
Should you have nothing better to do and would enjoy a little television torture, I’ll be appearing briefly on both Fox News and MSNBC this evening to discuss 527 political committees. The Fox spot is around 5:45 pm EST and I’ll be talking to Keith Olbermann after 8 p.m. on MSNBC. Wish me luck.
Best Radio Call-In Show Moment
It was a nice treat to be a guest on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” today gabbing about 527 political committees and campaign advertising. The best moment, I think, came when a caller from Philadelphia came on the line and asked, if I remember correctly, “So can I put an ad on the [...]
What Is the Miami Herald Thinking?
Here’s a story you don’t see every day: a newspaper suing an ISP to force it to disclose the authors of emails sent through that service. But the Miami Herald did just that, suing Yahoo! after someone with a Yahoo account sent what the paper called “malicious and defamatory” messages about at least one top [...]
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