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 ›
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Black Protests, White Coverage: How The Mainstream Media Distorts The Uprising in Baltimore
You do not dress for war in order to wage peace. You do not suppress information when you have nothing to hide. You cannot serve & protect a community while you dig your knee into its neck. These would seem… Read More ›
What Matters To You Should Matter To Me: Help Me Write What You Believe Others Need to Read
Your town’s 150 year old newspaper folded a few years back because of dwindling readership, increased printing costs and the rise of internet news. The big city next to you lost its afternoon paper 15 years ago and only has… Read More ›
No Breadwinning Girls Allowed
Dear sirs, I must say it has certainly been a breath of fresh air to see that at least one corner of the professional punditry realizes the immense damage being done to this country’s moral fiber by women… Read More ›
Andrew Napolitano: Fox News’ Accidental Historian
Oh, Andrew Napolitano, you rat-faced enemy of understanding. I am accustomed to hearing a steady stream of paranoid Limbaughian bullshit from the fine folks at Fox News and, for the most part, I’ve learned to treat it the same way… Read More ›
Politcial Nonsense, Buffet Style
Some days are just too weird for words…or at least too weird for long sequences of words put together in a linear and grammatically correct fashion. Today would happen to be one of those days, in no small part because… Read More ›
Fox News: Fair, Balanced & Brought to You by Walmart
Amid the Fair and Balanced lunacy of Fox News there are moments of stark lucidity that serve to underscore who is in on the joke and who is not. When Megyn Kelly sardonically asked Karl Rove if the endless stream… Read More ›
What Time is it Mr. President?
President Obama has always been the unflappable one. From guiding our nation’s response to the recent attacks on our embassies to making the decision to send the Seals in after Bin Laden, he has been cool under pressure. What we… Read More ›
Unemployment’s Below 8%: So, Are We Recovered Yet?
With the release of the September jobs report, the new number du jour that is on the tips of the tongues of the national punditry is 7.8. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.8%… Read More ›
Chicago Teachers Learn How To Hold ‘Em…And Possibly Fold ‘Em
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed for a position at a public school in Cincinnati. The job was some bizarre franken-mesh of an English teacher and an IT guy that sounded as if it had been pulled out… Read More ›
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