Another Sunday. And look how early we got done. Can you believe it? Everything up by 7:00 am PST (10:00 EST).
First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.
And what did we come up with?
Iraq.
The spying on AP.
This is a media edition. That's our theme. And, sadly, we started out with a different theme. And spent many hours on it. We changed the theme late Sunday. Usually, Ava, C.I., Kat, Wally, Jess and Dona are here in California for these editions. This weekend they were in DC (along with Marcia and Ruth). That might be part of the reason we were less than focused.
Ava and C.I. wrote this early Sunday as part of another theme edition. And then we trashed the theme but it still works here because of their critique of The Water Cooler Set and its embrace of sexism. Here they take on how sexists took control of the female driven Body of Proof and turned it into Doll Face. This is a really strong piece.
The last piece finished for the edition. Next week, we hope to offer a new visual that took about four hours to create -- on posterboard. But we changed our theme and were no longer able to use it. On our other theme, Report on Congress wasn't going to take place. So that ended up being very last minute.
It really is a disgrace and it should be called out.
Where to shine the spotlight? There were many choices but the vote was to note the disintegration of Amy Goodman and her awful show that once so many of us trusted.
Media Matters defends the government -- this time they defend it for attacking the press.
I (Jim) wrote this as we waited for the Congress piece to be done. Ava and C.I. pointed out that Wally and Cedric and Ruth should ideally be featured in a piece that noted other media lapses and failures of the week. But there was no time. As I waited, I did this quickie piece that noted three.
Assault in the military.
Some stand up to Barack's Drone War.
Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.