We are at a horrific crossroads in history, where freedom of speech and dissemination of truth are at stake. A dissident journalist known throughout the Arab world for his commitment to getting out the truth, was horrifically murdered October...
McClatchy on their game, brings us a new find on Russian operatives tied to the never-to-be-damned-enough “troll factory” that brought us "President Trump" and already under indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller. A Russian group with ties to these...
We don't auto-publish every Trump tweet each morning. One cannot give a platform to the dribbles of an unhealthy mind. It can spread diseased thinking throughout the body politic. But, we don't ignore tweets that function as proclamations from...
You know, this just struck me tonight. Stephanie Ruhle had former GOP congressman Charlie Dent on The 11th Hour, along with another GOP mainstream that I didn't catch the name of. And they brought me a revelation. They were whining that...
Trump often attacks the news media with cries of "fake news" and the Boston Globe has decided that enough is enough.  According to the AP, the newspaper has reached out to editorial boards nationwide to write and publish editorials on August...
Journalism stands at a crossroads today. Just this week, a number of stories have broken, none of them good news, which question the very essence of journalistic responsibility, especially in the internet age. The Julian Assange story in particular,...
If one thing is absolute in Trump World, it is the principle that whatever Donald Trump accuses somebody else of he is doing himself. If you want to know exactly what he’s doing, just get a lexicon of his...
Well, the morally inexcusable Sarah Huckabee Sanders certainly was a bird of ruffled plumage today. One would think that when she was conducting her first press briefing in 3 weeks, she'd be well rested, and ready to play the...
I've said for a long time now that Donald Trump is the anti-Midas, everything he touches turns to shit. But it's starting to look like if you spend enough time in close contact with him, it starts to rub...
The written rules which the White House established after being ordered by a judge to return Jim Acosta’s hard pass, are really no different than they have ever been — except now if you violate them they’ll take away...

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