The Case Against Religion: Christopher Hitchens and God Is Not Great In 2007, Christopher Hitchens published God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, a book whose title announced its argument with characteristic bluntness. Hitchens was not interested in making a polite distinction between “good” religion and “bad” religion, nor
News for the week ending on September 28, 1985 from ABC World News This Week. A week where seemingly everything was happening, all at once. From Mexico – A second earthquake hit the Mexico City area Friday night some 36 hours after the first quake that, according to the latest
Busy week, the one that ended on September 22 in 1985. Starting with Mexico City, where a violent earthquake struck central Mexico yesterday, killing at least 250 people, destroying or heavily damaging dozens of buildings and trapping an untold number of the dead and injured beneath mountains of shattered concrete.
A busy news day for November 14th 1993. Starting with a British tourist was fatally shot and another injured when they were attacked in a botched robbery attempt today at a highway rest stop in northern Florida, authorities said. It was the second slaying of a foreign tourist in less
CBS Radio – Newsmark: Housing the Homeless – January 17, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When CBS Radio’s Newsmark aired its documentary Housing the Homeless on January 17, 1988, homelessness had become one of the defining social issues of the Reagan era. Images of families living in shelters, men
By 1961, the debate over school textbooks had become one of the most visible fronts in America’s larger Cold War cultural conflict. What might once have been viewed as routine decisions by educators over curriculum had become deeply political questions. Across the country, local school boards, parent organizations, civic groups,
Manila finally calming down – the rest of the world, not so much. May 1st starting off with a bang in 2001 – starting with news from Manila. Two police officers and a protester died today when thousands of supporters of deposed president Joseph Estrada marched through central Manila and
Another busy news day in 1980 – The Hostage story in Iran was gaining traction. Japan decided today to join America’s European Common Market allies and impose diplomatic and economic sanctions against Iran to gain release of the American hostages in Tehran. Government officials said Japan’s punitive action included the
The Press Conference – otherwise known as The Gaggle or The Cattle Call. Serious business taken seriously. Another in a series of historic broadcast from the BBC World Service in the 1950s. This one, entitled; The Role Of The Press, took a look at how the press and how newspapers
Even in the 60s, you had to make light of dire situations – or go insane. No secret, being around in the 1960s meant watching, listening and witnessing a lot of bad news. Conflicts, protests, riots, toppling of governments, the draining of human resources and a general feeling of suffocation
