Charlie Rose

News Watch: This may be the best promo I've ever seen

"In Season 2 he's changing everything up. . . . Maybe he'll add a pony . . . a crime-solving pony."Says John, "We were just really assuming the show was going to be basically the same." The good news: He gets to keep his glasses.by KenThis promo was actually first posted about seven weeks ago, and we're already three weeks into the season it was promo-ing. But it's still maybe the best promo I've ever seen for anything.

Charlie Rose and the Mask of Respectability

There are few things more harmful to the public discourse than the cloak of false respectability. Especially on a nationally or globally disseminated news network or newspaper. Which is why mass media, when it broadcasts propaganda, is so effective at duping a benighted public into believing the twaddle of stark raving mad political ideologues, as though they were the very words of Socrates by satellite. The mainstream’s reach and influence is staggering, and when unchallenged, fatal. Take, for instance, the estimable Republican Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan.