I wasn’t aware that this is Advertising Week (I thought every week was Advertising Week!) until I received an invitation from Mark McKinnon to attend a panel discussion on “The Evolution of Presidential Campaign Advertising.” As chief media advisor to George W. Bush, McKinnon directed the President’s advertising effort for both the 2000 and 2004 […]

As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter — and a lasting lesson — from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser and he was a Vietnam-era Republican senator from Vermont named George Aiken.
I had just written a newspaper article reminding […]

Now that all the books have been published and promoted… And the Hollywood films have all opened – and closed… And all the radio and television commentaries and commemorative specials have been broadcast… and all the dramas…and the so-called ‘docudramas’…and even a handful of reality-based, actual ‘documentaries’ have aired and been argued over, ad infinitum […]

Despite the best efforts of the Pentagon to keep the lid on, the story of Able Danger –the controversial secret military intelligence program that purportedly identified five active Al Qaeda cells and four of the 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the worst terror attacks ever on American soil – continues to make […]