Surprised the media elite backed Fox?
Nobody should be surprised to see the nation s esteemed celebrity news media align with Fox News against the White House. Supposedly, the press regulates its own behavior; in reality, that s been a joke for two decades. Today, even the fig leaf has b...
 4.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 178.0 Scene & Heards
Concerts This weekend Amanda Dillon Java Jones. Acoustic folk. 9:30 a.m. Saturday. 888-4477. Ambush Mr. Zack s. Classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 396-7111. Amy Clawson Coltrane Three Rivers. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.three...
10.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 128.0 The good, the ad, the ugly
Do you have NOPQ? If so, ask your doctor about Nopquease. I can t tell you how many times I ve watched commercials for medicine on TV without ever figuring out what malady the medicine is supposed to cure. Do you have shortness of breath? Loss of ea...
3.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 128.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 99.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Dammit Jim McFarlin s. Rock. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 329-1200. Elkhorn Walt s Pourhouse. 8 p.m. Saturday. 267-5588. Freemartins The Mill. Pop, rock, funk. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 756-8800, www.themillcasino.com...
11.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 128.0 Team O takes on the Fox
In theory, the national news media function in a free market of ideas: a self-regulating, relentless quest for what the old Superman comics called Truth, Justice, and the American way. In practice, Washington political journalism has become a subdiv...
3.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 128.0 Picketers target local media
COOS BAY About a dozen people spent Friday morning standing outside the offices of The World newspaper and KCBY-TV to argue that some news organizations aren t doing their jobs. Organizer Joan Calhoun of Langlois contends the country is suffering m...
1.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 399.0 Picketers target local media
COOS BAY About a dozen people spent Friday morning standing outside the offices of The World newspaper and KCBY-TV to argue that some news organizations aren t doing their jobs. Organizer Joan Calhoun of Langlois contends the country is suffering m...
1.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 399.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Ambush Blue Moon. Rock, classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.dbabluemoon.com . Bent McFarlin s. Rock. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 329-1200. Charlie Freak Rogers Zoo. Rock, blues. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 75...
11.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 128.0 Contempt can't stifle protest
Mr. Walworth s claim that marching with signs is a dead end, and media isn t the target audience, (The World, Oct. 5) is a self-serving oracle easily rebutted by a review of the last 100-plus years of American history. The line of protesters from...
1.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 157.0 Media isn't the target audience
I don t think I ve ever been picketed before. So I m kind of looking forward to Oct. 16. On that day, local organizers of the Tea Party movement plan to rally outside The World office, as part of the national Can You Hear Us Now? campaign. I may ...
2.9K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 215.0 The right keeps getting it wrong
It simply amazes me how wrong the Right is about nearly everything going on in America. For example, those ridiculous Tea Parties what I find really hilarious is people on Social Security motoring to Washington, D.C., on the Interstate Highway Sy...
1.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 128.0 Race and stupidity
God save me from my friends I can take care of my enemies. So President Obama must be muttering today. Two weeks ago, the president played his ace of trumps. He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out his health care plans, confront the ...
3.2K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 128.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery ” Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County ” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1220 Sherman Ave., North Bend. Free admission on Sept. 18 only, $4. Children 11 and under, ...
11.5K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 99.0 Day Planner
Ongoing Broadway Bound play ” Runs through Sept. 27, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. (756-4336) Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County ” 10 a.m. to 4 ...
11.5K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 99.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery ” Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Broadway Bound play ” Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. (756-4...
13.4K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 128.0 Day Planner
Today Sea Breeze Chorus rehearsals 6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 123 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay. (759-2339) Bingo 6:45 p.m., Masonic Center, 2002 Union Ave., North Bend. Doors open at 6 p.m. (756-4426) Blue Highway Concert 7 p.m., Mingus...
10.7K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 99.0 Day Planner
Today Pinochle 1:30 p.m., Coos Bay Senior Center, 886 S. Fourth St., Coos Bay. (269-2626) Bridge Lessons 6:30-9:30 p.m., Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 400 Highland Ave., Coos Bay. Little Old Big Band auditions 7 p.m., Little Theatre on the Bay, 21...
11.6K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 99.0 National behavior is self-destructive
What is happening? I watch the news and I see protesters for the health reform calling the president an Afro Leninist, a church pastor wishing he was dead and justifying it with scripture, senators asking for a peaceful revolt, senators calling sel...
2.4K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 149.0 Day Planner
Ongoing Broadway Bound play Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave, North Bend. (756-4336, www.ltob.net ) Today Southern Oregon Dahlia Society: Dahlia Show Mall hour...
16.0K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 157.0 | 
