"Deciders," Tagging and Investigative Opinions
You gotta hand it to this President of the United States: he likes to mix it up. Last week, he was being called the "leaker in chief" by others. This week, he's a self-declared "decider," (today's No. 5 most-cited news story) mostly because he's decided to keep Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (today's fifth most-cited personality) in place despite calls from six retired generals for Rumsfeld's replacement (and undoubtedly, we can only surmise, because the monker is so grammatically on par with his vast linguistic capabilities).
So here's a question: what would the President decide to do about the video featured in today's most-shared Web link...a video of graffiti artist Mark Ecko "tagging" (spray-painting) Air Force One? BoingBoing calls it "excellent faked video"...but Ecko's explanation is worth a listen.
Watergate deja vu
Someone with a strong opinion is writer Carl Bernstein, he of the 1970s Woodward-Bernstein duo who spearheaded journalistic investigations that led to the Watergate hearings and President Richard Nixon's resignation. His Vanity Fair essay calling for Senate hearings into the Bush Administraiton's policies (intelligence, war planning, domestic spying, competence) is today's fourth most-cited link. Discuss.
Star babies
The baby girl's name is Suri, and actress Katie Holmes and actor Tom Cruise are among today's most popularly blogged people because of the birth of their daughter...and because Tom actually said this (joking, one can only hope).
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 19, 2006 01:58 PM
