IT’S OBAMA, BECK AND TWITTER ON FOX NEWS WATCH

Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories.
(Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel)
 

On the September 4, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with the media’s coverage of Barack Obama’s speech to the nation about the withdrawal [...]

LONG BEACH DROWNING IN INDECISION

“If swimmers take risks, whose fault is it”,  Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 27, 2010
It’s the old nanny-state question, dragged onto the beach this time.
How far should government go in protecting us from ourselves?
The official in the hot seat this time is Charles Theofan of Long Beach, a city manager with a thorny decision to make: [...]

CHANGING THE WORLD EVERY 140 CHARACTERS

“140-Character World Changers,” Ellis Henican Column, am/New York, June 19, 2009, page 4
Why should Iranian election protesters have all the Twitter fun? Can’t other world events be hijacked, one 140-character outburst at a time?
Sure, they can. And soon they will be. Every day, it gets a little bit harder to tell the
social-networking Twittersphere from so-called [...]