First we had months of Mueller-gate; now we’re in the midst of Ukraine-gate, but sometimes it seems the real story is not the story of democracy in peril but the manner of telling the story — the incessant, repetitive talk … Continue reading
Category Archives: Media Misadventures
Lacking successes to celebrate, if you don’t count corruption and mendacity as positive accomplishments, the shape of the Trump campaign to come will be to cry fake news while running a fake campaign. Case in point: gun control. After the … Continue reading
If any humans survive to write the history of our times, our self-destructive reliance on the broadcast media ought to come in for a fair share of the blame. “If it bleeds, it leads,” is a fair description of the … Continue reading