The Fromson File

When Katie, Brian and Charlie roll out their television cameras for the Nightly News this week and meet with Barack Obama, it will be encouraging if they ask one of the logical questions. Not only about Iran or the Israeli-Palestinian issue. But what, must be the reasoning behind his and John McCain’s belief that Afghanistan is worth fighting for now or ever? [...]

So Barack Obama’s early life was scrambled by his father’s  abandonment.  Haven’t  all of us who endured a similar trauma? It takes years to get over. I know.  But is that story worth frontpage treatment plus six columns across half of an inside page of Thursday’s Los Angeles Times?  I’m not purposely feeding red meat to Sam Zell who wants to [...]

After a four-year holiday, I’ve decided to renew contact on the premise that the news, or what’s left of it, tempts me to think there still are a few ideas to circulate in the blogosphere.  The latest round of blood-letting at the Los Angeles Times comes as no surprise. Sam Zell’s slash and burn tactics are symptomatic of a problem much worse than one mogul strangling [...]