“Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of ‘”60 Minutes,” informed staff Tuesday that Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be taking a leave of absence following an internal report on the news magazine’s discredited Oct. 27 Benghazi report. “As Executive Producer, I am responsible for what gets on the air,” Fager wrote in a …
Studies Show That Being Popular Can Give You a Bigger Brain
Join #FOWLERNATION!! http://bit.ly/14crV4D Previous studies have shown that dominant rats produce more brain cells and have better cognition than subordinate rats. A new study presented at Neuroscience 2013 by Dr. Maya Opendak of Princeton University has found that this is only true only as long as you’re on top. Opendek’s team created two hermetic environments for rats that facilitated …
Oxford Dictionaries – ‘Selfie’ Is Word Of The Year
Join #FOWLERNATION!! http://bit.ly/14crV4D Michelle Obama shared one with her “first dog” Bo, Hillary Clinton tweeted one with her daughter Chelsea. Now “selfie” — the smartphone self-portrait — has been declared word of the year for 2013, according to Britain’s Oxford University Press. The publisher of the Oxford dictionaries said Tuesday that “selfie” saw a huge jump in usage in …
Middle Class Benefits Targeted By Washington Post
“…There are basically two categories of people who want to see Social Security cut: 1) financiers who wish to move us toward privatized retirement accounts so that they can charge us fees; and 2) rich people who do not like to pay taxes. Their main champions are conservatives at the Heritage Foundation, libertarians at the Cato Institute and Wall …
Popular ABC Anchor Heading To Rehab For Alcoholism
“ABC’s 20/20 co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas has been off your television screen for a few weeks, and now the Daily News reported that it’s because she’s been in rehab for alcohol abuse.*” Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss this story and their own biases that were exposed while researching this story. Read more from Mediaite’s Andrew …
Can The Mainstream News Media Police Itself?
On a recent episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, NPR’s David Folkenflik interviewed Eric Stern, a Salon writer who bothered to fact check some of the more outlandish claims made on Sean Hannity’s show about the alleged failures of Obamacare. But instead of discussing Hannity’s duplicity, the interview became a discussion of whether outright lying might be acceptable on an …