SPOILER ALERT: If you plan to and have not yet watched either last Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us” or “Real Time with Bill Maher,” you may want to wait before reading this post. I do not know about you, but the attraction of NBC’s “This Is Us” is its ability to remind us … Read more
Much of American journalism, which was supposed to revert to its historic role as a check on those in power after Donald Trump left town, is now devoted to shutting down the commercial lifeline of other media. Think of the precedent for the next populist Republican President who might declare pro-choice publications “deadly.” ~Wall … Read more
Question of the Day: Is the media’s focus on “a war on truth” misdirected? There are two kinds of horror movies. To prove this point, I will stick to films based on Stephan King novels. At one end of the spectrum are stories, while gory, are not the source of nightmares. For example, to … Read more
Among the issues that divide Democrats and Republicans is their attitude toward Russia and Vladimir Putin. A February 2020 survey by Pew Research approached the question from several angles and found: 82 percent of Democrats expected Russian interference in the 2020 election compared to 39 percent of Republicans. 31 percent of Republicans trust Putin … Read more
It only took two days. Republicans are already making the moral equivalency argument they are just following Democratic precedent when they say, “Joe Biden is not MY president. Isn’t that what all you 2016 deniers said about Donald Trump?” They are half right. I was proud to say Trump was not MY president. Primarily … Read more