It’s good for columnists not to live in Washington, says Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman (available as a link, to your left, under Politics / United States). “There are too many insiders there; they go to dinner with each other, talk to each other and then have breakfast with each other. So, in professional terms, they’re all talking to each other.”
Goodman tells Anthony Violanti, of the Buffalo News, that political talk shows “are, by and large, men screaming at other men in front of a male audience. I get annoyed with these shows and I think most women do. Women in general have had quite enough angry men in their lives.”

The Tyee.ca celebrates its 100th birthday this week, which means to say that some 100 days ago — towards the end of November 2003 — The Tyee.ca was launched as British Columbia’s much-needed “feisty online presence”.
In this week’s issue, Steve Burgess comments on the leave-taking of the esteemed duo of Michael Eckford and Fiona Forbes from CITY-TV’s Breakfast Television show (go on to read the comments at the bottom of the page, when you’ve finished Steve’s article); Tom Hawthorn writes on the cult of personality surrounding federal NDP leader, Jack Layton (and also offers this accompanying article about those fighting to join Layton’s “army”); and, journalist Tim Howard writes on the provincial Liberals’ recently announced “brown budget”, in which nary a word was mentioned about British Columbia’s “environment”.
And published today, Barbara McClintock, The Tyee.ca’s legislative reporter, offers this article on the recent raids at the B.C. legislature.
Good reading all, and worth checking out.

The New York Daily News “Hot Copy” columnist Paul Colford reports that teen-magazine sales have plummeted — and online usage by kids is one of the key factors in the decline.
The suggestion in the article: any teen-oriented magazine these days better not be first-and-foremost a magazine, but rather an intelligently converged print / online teen information/news/entertainment source.