Nothing but wires and lights in a box…that was the prognosis given to television broadcasting in a speech by Edward R. Murrow 58 years ago unless the medium forgave the wiggling lure of profit for the yeoman’s work of informing… Read More ›
Democratic Primaries
Is This How Republics End? What America Can Learn From Germany in the 1930s
On the corner of Lombard and Gay streets in downtown Baltimore, sandwiched between the touristy glitz of the Inner Harbor and the corridor of fleshy iniquities that is The Block, sits the Baltimore Holocaust Memorial. Every day, tens of thousands… Read More ›
Sentiment Over Substance: How Presidential Candidates Talk About Addiction Without Saying Much Of Anything
It happened at the beginning of the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic, well before the 5 mid-card presidential candidates who participated in the event showed up to speak. About halfway through the morning portion of the… Read More ›
Say It Ain’t So Joe: The Unfortunate Prospect of a Biden Presidential Campaign
Up until today, the Republican and Democratic presidential primary fields were a study in contrasts. On the right, you had a raucous melange of hyper-conservative ideologues, religious extremists and political would-be-kings vociferously bickering on national TV, all of whom seemed… Read More ›
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