The New York Times is almost quaint, in the era of Trump. It always speaks politely and uses referents like "Mr." Trump, and it comes up with euphemisms for his lies and racist speech -- probably because to tell...
Who knows what Fox News did to deserve this onslaught from their Viewer in Chief, the only viewer that they truly care about pleasing -- except tonight, they emphatically did not. Here's what Comrade Cheeto launched into the ether...
The New York Times has been around for 167 years and reported on 33 presidential administrations. In that time, they've dealt with presidents who were less than thrilled about their coverage, for reasons that were usually plain, but the...
Buck-buck-BUCKAW! The New York Times
Well, that was a breath of fetid air. The New York Times just announced that it has made the decision to remove political cartoons from all future editions of their “international” editions. They did this in response to...
Bryan Cranston, of Breaking Bad fame, last night accepted the Tony Award for best actor in a play for his portrayal of fictional fed up news man Howard Beale in Network by launching into a full-throated defense of the fourth estate.
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Trump found the news coverage of his so-far botched visit to the UK "all negative." Well, there's a good reason for that -- it is all negative. Even the few conservative voices who have dared to peep out a...
I was chatting with a friend the other day about the surreal aspects of the Trump era. We began to muse whether the planet had passed through some kind of a cosmic cloud, a sort of political Mutara Nebula,...
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,...
Look out, First Amendment. Thursday, Julian Assange's charges were escalated to include being charged under the Espionage Act. This is a crucial change, because previously Assange was being charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Being charged under...
Earlier today I wrote an article in which I stated that billionaire Tom Steyer was being less than forthright in the way he portrayed public sentiment in the Democratic base on the subject of impeachment. But that topic rouches...
