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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Even in Hollywood, World’s Troubles Impinged

The Golden Globes are usually the fail-safe awards ceremony, a boozy warm-up for the Oscars that might give winners a boost but would not count against the losers. Sunday night that was true for almost everyone there, except the paying Thurs network broadcast the event.

For NBC, it was closer to the battle of Dunkirk. Like the Allies Leaving France after the Germans invaded in 1940, NBC had no real chance of getting through it intact. At best, the network hoped To restore the award show's ratings on the last few years of its slide down and survive the Conan-Jay jokes.Read Morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/movies/awardsseason/18watch.html

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Rocket Hits Afghan Capital’s Diplomatic Area

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday inaugurated the Gujranwala Tools, Dies and Molds Center (GTDMC) aimed at meeting needs of the local industry, besides boosting exports of country's engineering sector. The president who is on a week long visit to Punjab Thurs interact with the people And to launch key developmental project, unveiled the plaque of the center here at the Governor's House. The center, second of its kind on the Karachi, will enhance indigenous production and reduce imports of about 11 million dollars.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Fox, Tiger, and Christianity: A Defense of Brit Hume

It was a pretty mild pitch, as these things go, but only if God-talk is familiar to you. It was quite clearly what Jarring to many of Hume's colleagues. In a typical reaction, Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal Constitution asserted that "faith is a private matter between that person and God, and is not a matter to be judged by some pompous TV anchor." In case Hume was misunderstood, Bookman subsequently called him "rude and Crass" and guilty of "bad manners". MSNBC anchor David Shuster maintained that Hume had somehow "denigrated" and "diminished" Christianity. Even knowledgeable religion writers were nonplussed by Hume. USA Today religion writer Cathy Grossman has asserted her blog that the Fox commentator was "talking trash."Read http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/08/fox-tiger-and-christianity-a-defense-of-brit-hume/.