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Edward R. Murrow at One Hundred: Still Journalism’s Gold Standard

April 25, 2008

This week marks the 100th anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s birth. For the generation of my grandparents and parents, his voice was synonymous with integrity in reporting the events that shaped their lives. Few could match his gift for words or their authenticity in describing the seminal events of his era -a war-time Europe in [...]

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Outrage of the Week: The Crumbling Pillars of Public Confidence

November 9, 2007

Merck pays out nearly $5 billion to settle Vioxx claims, Yahoo incurs the wrath of legislators, and another poisoned child’s toy made in China is recalled. The growing credit market implosion threatens recession. These are the predictable consequences of the subprime leadership and ethics in our boardrooms and in our institutions of government over the [...]

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The Autumn of Leaders Falling and the Rise of the Quiet Hero

September 14, 2007

An essay on icons of privilege and power in a skeptical world Here and there, the turning leaves of autumn have begun to fall. A few leaders, or those who would have the world cling to such notions, have already preceded them. Alberto Gonzales has finally ended the torment of his pathetically inept performance as [...]

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Outrage of the Week: The Vanishing Stakeholder

June 22, 2007

In too many ways, the primacy of the ordinary individual —as citizen, employee and investor— which has long been the backbone of modern social progress, is being left to disappear amid an onslaught of privileged special interests, civil rights-invading bureaucrats, unwatchful corporate guardians and greedy financial contortionists. In Canada, it was the no-fly list, which [...]

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