A 'rebutter' pointed out that the bottom line is economics-if a show keeps making money, can you blame its producers for keeping it alive and earning on the tube?

When I stood down, my first rebutter stated immediately that he himself was unapologetically sentimental about the Dream Act, and intended to express his emotion here and now.

This is not to imply that expert disagreements are absent in Canadian coverage (14% of English and 15% of French articles contain an identifiable "rebutter" voice that challenges the predominant argument or position in the piece), but that these disagreements are rarely used as the reason for writing the story.

"The Rebutter," an occasional column from contributing editor Rachel Shukert, gives voice to your outrage and, perhaps, puts Liel in his place.

I investigate these claims by examining the rebutter selections of out-party between 1966 and 2006.

This does not mean that competing voices are not present in climate change reporting (16 percent of articles have an identifiable "rebutter" source that directly challenges the predominant theme or speaker in the article), but that these disagreements are rarely the main reason for writing the article.

Relay the breakfast table and rebutter all the toast.

In my function as Tablet Magazine's official Liel Leibovitz "rebutter," it is sometimes my privilege to receive a preview of which beloved cultural touchstone our charmingly illogical contrarian has in his firing line this week.

Here we inaugurate "The Rebutter," an occasional column from contributing editor Rachel Shukert, to give voice to your outrage and, perhaps, put Liel in his place.

The rebutters take issue with the article's use of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) decision in City of Creede, CO v.

Thus, if it was possible for William Prynne, having returned to London from Laudian exile in November 1640, freely to speak his mind in print, so too might puritan confreres, and puritan-minded rebutters of puritan malpractice, take to the presses in order to seize the day--a seizure, to be sure, that Prynne and his kind would bitterly regret for the erosion of moral and intellectual standards that could be considered its sordid sequel.