IT’S GOOD TO BE RICH IN AMERICA

“Rich get richer and the rest of us suffer ”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 10, 2010  What a great week to be rich in America! On Monday, President Barack Obama compromised with the Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts, leaving no millionaires or billionaires behind. By Thursday, a generous estate-tax exemption was heaped onto…

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STUDENTS & SCHOOL RELUCTANT STARS OF VIRAL VIDEO

“YouTube Brawlers get more than 15 minutes” , Newsday, December 5, 2010  Smile, you’re on YouTube – whether you want to be or not. Just ask those two kids who got into a fight Monday afternoon outside Half Hollow Hills High School East. Ask the student who recorded the brawl with a cell-phone camera and the…

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WIKILEAKS FLOOD EXPOSES UNSTOPPABLE FLOW

“Can’t plug the Wikileaks” ”, Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, December 3, 2010  Hey, Hillary! Hey, all you flustered generals, ambassadors and government-security chiefs! Protect your own damn secrets. Don’t be expecting the media to keep your secrets for you. That won’t happen anymore, not in the age of WikiLeaks. This week, all of Washington has been…

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ARE WE TALKING SECURITY CONCERNS OR NAKED PICTURES?

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 November 27, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with a look at the media’s hyped coverage …

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IF IT’S THURSDAY, IT MUST BE ‘BLACK FRIDAY’

“There’s time yet to give thanks for Black Friday eve” , Newsday, November 28, 2010 Was it already Black Friday at 10 o’clock Thursday night? At Toys R Us it was this year – and at a growing number of other definition-stretching, holiday-encroaching major retail chains. In the get-a-jump-on-it spirit of save-the-date cards and Catholic Vigil…

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MEDIA OVERHYPE? NOBODY WANTS A STRIP SEARCH BUT…

Ellis sat down with the panel on  FOX  Business Channel’s  Stuart Varney and Company to talk about the concern shown in the media over airport security measures Henican agreed that the coverage showed an overblown and exaggerated fear and outrage by the public of  backscatter body scanners and enhanced pat-downs that was not backed up by any…

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