288959. START YOUR ENGINES! Obama who? So you still think the media is very liberal? The entire US media has already DUMPED Obama like a 6-month old rotting moose burger. He is no where on TV today.

Police detained three more people after a deadly attack at the US Consulate in Istanbul last week, bringing the number of suspects to 13, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. The detentions were made late Saturday in raids on houses in Istanbul's Kucukc

Critical Eye T he new great truth in media and politics is that Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama will be America's "first cybergenic president" if he is elected in November.

Yet again, the political media is obsessed with the question of whether the Democratic presidential nominee is "likable" and whether he can "connect" with "regular people." We go through this every four years.

OF ALL THE INDUSTRIALised democracies, the one whose politics could be most recognisable to Africans right now is the USA -- and Italy, some might argue.