| May 21, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyWhen Michael Sam became the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL, he also made sports TV history by kissing his boyfriend on camera. And he has no harsher critics than his fellow athletes. The public is rapidly growing more tolerant of LGBT Americans,...
| May 14, 2014 | Food / FarmingThe new comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver included a well-deserved riff on the food industry in its first episode. Oliver, who you might know from his work on Comedy Central’s fake news program, The Daily Show, went after two well-deserved targets:...
| Apr 23, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyI’m legally blind. Like most blind people, I don’t take cars for test drives, chop down trees with a chainsaw, or keep my blindness a secret. You wouldn’t know this from watching the new NBC show, Growing Up Fisher, a TV show about a blind lawyer...
| Apr 2, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyThere’s some good news about the news business for a change. The big headwound traditional media venues like newspapers and TV suffered with the advent of Internet ads is starting to heal. The bleeding has either stopped or slowed to a less-painful trickle for...
| Feb 19, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyOlympic ski champion Bode Miller’s impressive bronze showing in the men’s super-G was overshadowed by the interview with him afterward. The race was an historic one for the 36-year-old skier, who became the oldest Alpine medalist in the history of the...
