Many parents in the UK won't let their children wander outdoors. As a result, children hardly ever go outdoors, and when they do, it is like a package tour in a foreign country.

The same thing happens in the US: parents are terrified of allowing children to be alone. These children are totally dependent on parents for transportation, and the parents are stressed by the need to do this.

TV pundit David Gregory treated Americans with an income under $200,000 a year as negligible.

At NBC News, the Anchor Has to Remind You You're Not Watching an Ad.

Time Magazine's idea of a discussion on US budget policy was to present two Republicans who disagree on some details.

It could have been worse: they could have presented a Republican and a Democrat like Obama that is little different from a Republican.

Uri Avnery: the moral dilemmas of Syria and Egypt.