Margaret Kimberley

The corporate media continues to give the American public a steady diet of seamy, scandalous, frightening, and sensationalized stories. Despite their attention getting nature, most of these tales are simply not important enough to make national headlines. No sooner is a missing child, bride, or pregnant woman found, alive or dead, than our intrepid reporters…

The death of a pope and selection of his successor will always be a big news story. Media reporting on the illness and death of John Paul II, and the choice of his successor was more than big. The story was at first ghoulish, then monotonous and unenlightening, and finally went on endlessly without analysis…

Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so an advertising slogan is in order. “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.” The United States government is now proposing that the roach treatment be meted out to…

On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, newspaper headlines will tell us that the Republican presidential candidate has defeated the Democrat. It is generally ill advised to make predictions about an electoral outcome, especially three years in advance. It is less dangerous to do so where the Democratic Party is concerned. The winner may be Jeb Bush,…

Bob and Mary Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s parents, certainly became media savvy in the days before their daughter died. How could they not be? The tragic story of a family torn apart by a feud at a sick bed was reported all over the world. Media attention is always a two edged sword. News cameras attract…

Nothing can ruin a Sunday morning like a New York Times magazine article with a dubious title such as, “Toward a Unified Theory of Black America.” The alarm bells are immediate because the Times loves to give attention to black people who are either in jail or on welfare or who have impeccable credentials but…

The American Heritage dictionary defines bread and circuses as “Offerings, such as benefits or entertainments, intended to placate discontent or distract attention from a policy or situation.” The term was used by the ancient Romans to describe how their rulers kept the population in the dark at politically opportune moments. The Romans have been outdone…

America has no shortage of sell outs and traitors. We are awash in good-for-nothing sell out colored preachers. Traitorous Democrats in Congress help corporations enslave us through an atrocious bankruptcy bill. The media sell us out every day when they choose to tell us all about the latest celebrity divorce but ignore the Bush meltdown…

In Baghdad, Barwiz Muhammad Mahmoud al-Merani was shot to death along with his son. Al-Merani was slated to serve on the tribunal that will prosecute Saddam Hussein. In Chicago, federal judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow came home to find her husband and mother dead from gun shot wounds. Assassinations in Iraq aren’t terribly surprising. Foreign armies…