May Archive

Media’s choice coverage

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 May 2012

I’ve quoted Walter Lippmann for years on the ability to shape public opinion by feeding the public information chosen from a field of topics and presented in a calculated light with crafted language framed within fixed parameters. He’s getting more relevant all the time.

Dozens of Catholic institutions sue Obama

22 May 2012

He may have been counting on the controversy over the HHS mandate to blow over after a few months and changing news cycles passed. He may have counted on it continuing to simmer and making it an issue about ‘women’s preventive health services’ and contraception and the bogus ‘war on women.’ But he probably didn’t see this coming.

Seeing the human face in mass media

15 May 2012

We are a cynical lot these days. News people feed into that and drive us deeper into identity politics and divisive culture battles and snarky social media communications, and we are willingly complicit. It takes a startling reality check to make us even think about what we’re doing to ourselves and each other.

Motherhood

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 May 2012

There may be a force on earth as powerful as the love of a mother. But I doubt it.

First Lady fashion

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 May 2012

This is not what I normally write about. Not that it’s not interesting to see how some very high profile women in the news dress, from wardrobe to accessories and all. I actually pay attention to that, wondering to myself where some of them get some of these cool clothes, since I want to look my best but hate to shop and have expensive taste and a low budget. But now the media are writing about these things, and, talk about expensive taste…

Obama’s unsurprising marriage epiphany

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 May 2012

It may have erupted in the Twitterverse and on MSM sites, but the only possible surprise element may have been the timing. Maybe.

Overpopulation, anti-humanism, and Cheng Guangcheng

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 May 2012

The Obama administration was involved at the highest levels of diplomacy with China last week to negotiate a deal over the fate of a human rights activist targeted by the Chinese government because he exposed so much abuse tied to China’s population control policy. Big media did a good job driving that story and keeping Chen’s fate a top and prominent focus.

Overpopulation myths, pseudo-science and anti-humanism

Sheila Liaugminas | 07 May 2012

That’s a lot to take on, especially about an establishment movement.

National Day of Prayer and ever present politics

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 May 2012

This is a dicey year for the president threatening religious liberty to be issuing a proclamation to honor the day called for national prayer. He chose his words carefully.

Obama’s awkward bragging campaign

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 May 2012

He has used other bluffs to their fullest extent. Now the president and his team are playing his ’killed Osama bin Laden’ card for all it’s worth. Is it a gamble?