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From Nieman Reports | The Daily Telegraph gives its audience an audience COMMENTARY ‘My Telegraph’ was created to let readers post their own blogs on the paper's Web site. Some people asked, “Why would anyone want a blog with the Telegraph?” The answer was, many people did. 
A book excerpt | Alex Jones on objectivity in reporting COMMENTARY ‘Objectivity does not require that journalists be blank slates free of bias,” writes the Shorenstein Center director in a new book. “In fact, objectivity is necessary precisely because they are biased.’
| Will Obama veto Pentagon pork, or enable it? COMMENTARY Veto threats haven’t fazed the Congressional military appropriations slatherers, and until now the president and Defense Secretary Gates have been giving up early and often.
The overseas press | Afghanistan is seen as poisoning the Obama presidency COMMENTARY The overseas press: Der Spiegel says it’s Obama’s war and a time for “unsparing self-criticism;” al Aribiya says any hope of military victory in Afghanistan is a pipedream. But Pakistan’s Daily Times says “retreat is not an option.”
| Private Profits, Cost Shifting and the Public Option COMMENTARY An attorney at a Medicare advocacy group deals with the claim that a public option in health care reform wouldn’t be fair to private insurers, and says a public option is needed if there are to be better competition and reduced health care costs.
Hard pressed to find a kind word | How Iowans are looking at Grassley COMMENTARY| September 244, 2009 Back home, the five-term senator is regarded as a hard worker, likeable, and a person of integrity. But his actions and statements on health care reform are drawing sharp rebukes.
Letter from Chicago | A retiree likes his Medicare and wants younger people to have the same plan COMMENTARY Frank Schneider, a retired lawyer who used to represent insurance companies, advocates a “Medicare for all” plan. He says health care insurance plans aren’t the solution, they’re the problem, and that people don’t know how good or bad their insurance is until they have to use it—and then, for many, it’s too late.
Public vs. private | Do warnings about a public option sound familiar? COMMENTARY To Medicare advocate Judith Stein, the alarms about socialism and government barring the doctor’s door are all very familiar. They go back 44 years to the original Medicare legislation.
A teacher's view | Bringing diversity to the newsroom is not the same as bringing diversity to the coverage COMMENTARY Journalism professor Neil Reisner writes about how he teaches students to cover minority or ethnic communities in a way that's not all food, fun, festivals or crime and doesn't sound like a National Geographic special.
Overseas bases | Three good reasons to liquidate our empire COMMENTARY Author Chalmers Johnson, who has written extensively about the dangers of militarism, offers a 10-step plan to bring our troops home and close our vast, potentially ruinous global empire of military bases.
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