German dollmaker Marcel Offermann garnered much media attention with his dolls of famous people such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama and Lady Diana. Now he is paying tribute to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a new doll.
Here’s a slam from within the profession against a biased press:
[The] press corps has been ideologized into a part of the liberal establishment. More and more, the members of the Washington press share in total the worldview taken by the dominant liberals who control the Democratic Party. More and more they share axioms that profoundly influence their coverage of day-to-day events in the worlds of politics and government.
That was not yesterday but in 1972 from columnist Robert Novak at a Kenyon College conference on “The Mass Media and Modern Democracy,” from his The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.
He zeros in on the journos of the day:
[A] rigid conformity has emerged among the Washington press corps, which reflects in part conformity in the colleges producing the new journalists. But beyond this, the young journalist who violates these axioms can scarcely expect a rapid rise up the ladder of advancement. . . . .
The result is a gap of widening proportions between the national journalist and the mass of Americans, paralleling a gap between liberal politicians and the masses, specifically the white workingman. [Italics added]
36 years ago, and still a problem. Notice “the colleges producing the new journalists.” Tenured radicals, twisted minds.
Daley administration wants to fire this guy?
He’s the water dept. foreman who wore his GPS-equipped cell phone on the golf course when he was supposed to be working.
Winston Cole, a $106,115-a-year foreman of sewer bricklayers, got an earlier warning for allegedly driving to Indiana on city time to buy cheaper gas for his personal car and avoid paying Chicago gas taxes, according to co-workers.
What did he do wrong? He wasn’t door-banging for votes, maybe.
More to the point, who is his sponsor? Who sent him?
We know who sent Homero Tristan, just named as the city’s $147,156-a-year Human Resources commissioner, replacing a woman who left the job after a “scathing” report by the federal hiring monitor.
That would be Alderman Danny Solis, 25th Ward, whose political action committee Tristan heads, with help of his wife Isolde — kidding.
Solis’s sister, an old Hillary C. hand, recently headed her campaign but got pushed out last month and may be switching to the Big O.
Blithe Spirit 