Ken Burns: Vietnam War; Epic TV Masterpiece

| Published Septemeber 21, 2017 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

Much anticipated and much promoted, Ken Burns’ newest sweeping mega-documentary starts with a brief interview in which a soldier who fought in Vietnam posits that few...(click to read more)

Three CNN Reporters Resign in Wake of Russia Story

| Published June 27, 2017 |

By Thursday Review editors

Three CNN staffers were asked to resign from the cable news network this week after it was revealed that the journalists and editors promoted an...(click to read more)

Gamestop Hits Sales Stop

| Published March 28, 2017 |

By Thursday Review
staff writers

Electronics and entertainment retailer GameStop posted its worst financial results in years, releasing its fourth quarter 2016 earnings report and announcing that...(click to read more)

Reflections on the Passing of
Mary Tyler Moore

| Published January 31, 2017 |

By Thursday Review
editors & staff

Her death on January 25 sent waves of sadness through two entire generations of television fans, as well as...(click to read more)

Network:
Still Relevant After 40 Years

| Published September 20, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

The subspecies of social satire in Hollywood has a long tradition dating back to the 1960s, but it also has a reputation among the elites of film criticism that sometimes...(click to read more)

Emails:

Foundation Brass Lobbied State Department on Behalf of Donors

| Published August 29, 2016 |

By Keith H. Roberts,
Thursday Review contributor

A recently-released thread of emails examined by ABC News illuminates a pattern of high-level access to the office of Secretary of State during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as top U.S. diplomat by those who...(click to read more)

Roger Ailes Ousted as CEO of Fox News

| Published July 21, 2016 |

By Thursday Review
staff writers

Roger Ailes, the conservative media operative who literally built Fox News into a major television operation and one of the highest rated news organizations in the U.S., has been forced out by members of the family of Rupert Murdoch, owners of 21st Century Fox, which includes Fox News among its...(click to read more)

State Department Altered Public Record on U.S.-Iran Deal

| Published June 3, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

As if the U.S. Department of State did not already have enough to contend with in recent months over a variety of accusations regarding its handling of...(click to read more)

Tampa Bay Times Buys Tampa Tribune;
Ends Two Paper Era

| Published May 4, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

It was one of the few major U.S. metropolitan areas still able to sustain two major daily newspapers, and the fact that the market maintained this business competition well into the...(click to read more)

Kasich’s Ohio Victory & the “Brokered Convention”

| Published March 17, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

For the Republican Party, the jury is still out on Donald Trump. It’s ironic, really.

By all rights and by most definitions, the billionaire is the...(click to read more)

Republicans Debate in Miami in Insult-Free Forum

| Published March 11, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

There was no mud-slinging, there were no insults traded, there was no body part humor, there were no snide remarks about wet pants or sweaty faces. The word “liar” was never used, except as...(click to read more)

A Chaotic Republican Debate in the Fox Theater, Detroit

| Published March 4, 2016 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

Only a few days after businessman Donald Trump won seven out of 11 states in the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses—thus sparking an apocalyptic panic among the Republican establishment and GOP leaders—and only hours after...(click to read more)

North Korea Able to Track Digital Files?

| Published December 29, 2015 |

By R. Alan Clanton,
Thursday Review editor

According to the BBC, the operating system most commonly used by North Korea—Red Star OS—contains hidden code which allows...(click to read more)

Willard Scott to Retire from NBC

| Published December 13, 2015 |

By Thursday Review staff

His may be arguably the longest-running career with one network on television. And after 35 years with the same show, he may have broken...(click to read more)

Fred Dalton Thompson:

Prosecutor, Actor, Politician

| Published November 2, 2015 |

By R. Alan Clanton, Thursday Review editor

His vocal chords were among the most distinctive and recognizable in Hollywood, and in American politics. At least one famous Presidential candidate joked “If I had his tonsils, I would be...(click to read more)

First GOP Debate May Force Some Candidates to Sidelines
| Published July 6, 2015 |

By Thursday Review staff writers

The next Presidential election for Americans is not this year; it’s more than a year away, in November 2016. Still, a scant one month from today, Republican candidates for President will stroll onto a stage in Cleveland for the first of what may be...

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