OPINION - Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and Fox TV is to the media business what Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder, was to the restaurant biz: A purveyor of mental junk food. We in the news business fail, much as the restaurant business did for years, because we chase quick profit and fail to show you the nutritious news to feed your mind and preserve our freedom.

Shrinking advertising revenue, fewer pages, slashed payrolls and dropping circulations haven't deterred traditional and new titles from capitalizing on fast-paced changes in the media.
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WikiLeaks is America's Tienanmen. Julian Assange is the tank guy. We all hold our breath to see if we go all the way.
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Yet in the art of retail politics, the agreeable guy with the handsome face was a star, quickly establishing himself as the superior candidate. It...
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Financial media is not helping us become better informed or better investors. These outlets devote too much of their airtime to forwarding partisan propaganda rather than informing or entertaining us.
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Amazingly, most "experts" still subscribe to the outdated and outright ridiculous belief that all 50-plus consumers are poor, overly frugal, highly technophobic and averse to switching brands.
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This week in journalism is bringing the inevitable tsunami: the onslaught of media articles predicting doom and gloom for baby boomers nearing retirement. The problem with these pieces is not, for the most part, in the factual reporting -- it's in the failure to connect the dots.
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Ow, wow, people: Happy New Year and welcome to this, your first Sunday Morning Liveblog of 2011, and thus, THE FUTURE. Yes, today we have...
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