By Richard Lee With the Iowa caucuses less than three weeks away, Democratic presidential candidates took part in a two-hour debate sponsored by CNN and the Des Moines Register on Jan. 14. But the candidate who may have fared best… Read More ›
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‘Wade in the Water’ has a legacy beyond basketball
By Richard Lee “Wade in the Water,” the song that greeted the St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball teams during the 1960s and 1970s, returned to campus on Dec. 7 when the Bona community celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Final… Read More ›
The talented journalists at the NYT should give us more than anti-Trump venom
By Michael P. Riccards Sometime ago, the New York Times sent a glossy brochure to its loyal subscribers which was a remarkable and expensive defense of how the newspaper comprises its editions and the various department that it uses. It… Read More ›
Current movies show the true meaning of Woodstock
By Richard Lee Fifty years ago, when several hundred thousand music fans descended on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Queen was nearly a year away from its first performance, Elton… Read More ›
‘Toy Story’ provides a lesson on the state of the media
By Richard Lee Besides entertaining audiences of all ages, “Toy Story 4,” which opened Friday, provides an interesting lesson on the state of the media in America. Don’t expect Buzz, Woody and the gang to take on the roles of… Read More ›
The Who’s ‘Tommy’ has the makings of a good political candidate
By Richard Lee As the 50th anniversary of the Who’s Tommy approached, I devoted my WSBU-FM radio show to a musical look at how Tommy would fare as a presidential candidate. Don’t laugh. Tommy has a compelling personal story that… Read More ›
A musical look at the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates
By Richard Lee “A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.” – Joe Hill, songwriter and labor activist In the spirit of Joe Hill’s… Read More ›
What if politics was more like sports?
By Richard Lee When sports and politics collide, the debate that follows usually revolves around the question of whether politics should kept out of sports. But let’s flip the question and explore what might happen if we injected a bit… Read More ›
How The Irish Built A New National Identity in America
By Richard Lee March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. In between, the month is filled with parades, shamrocks and leprechauns. St. Patrick’s Day may fall on March17, but the entire month has become a… Read More ›
What the media missed in the 2018 campaign for governor in New York
By Richard Lee News coverage of New York’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign provided voters with sparse information on the public policy issues confronting the state. A content analysis of 15 of the state’s major news outlets found that the preponderance of… Read More ›
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