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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Monica Lewinsky’

The Media vs. the Mid-Summer Doldrums

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features
It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]


The Pitcher and The Country Star

By Denis Campbell • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Media
(Reprise article)
Roger Clemens has not had a good 2008. Retired from baseball and named in both the Mitchell Report on Steroid Abuses and under investigation by the federal prosecutor U.S. attorney Matt Parrella for committing perjury by lying under oath in the trial of his former trainer and he countersuing that former trainer for defamation, [...]