There’s only one thing more worrying than President Trump’s hourly eruptions of furious tweets, and his dumbfounding inability not just to grasp but to even locate the levers of power. It’s the news media’s shock and amazement at each fresh … Continue reading
Category Archives: Media Misadventures
Much of the media seems to have embraced the notion that Donald Trump is one of those malign clowns of urban myth, dangerous but disorganized. In this scenario President Nero tweets while America declines. But what if there’s another ring … Continue reading
Once, when the world was a politer place, it was considered rude to speak ill of the dead. But some people’s lives are hard to burnish. The Columbia pictures movie mogul, Harry Cohn, was famously crude, bullying, and crass, yet … Continue reading