If you have either read Gabriel Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided the Country or watched the Showtime mini-series based on the book, you know Ailes believed Donald Trump’s occupancy of the Oval Office was dependent on his network’s coverage of the 2016 … Read more
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. ~Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight.COM Two totally unconnected news stories this week affirm how much we have been distracted by the noise when we should be focusing on the signal. The first started as a joke and ended up making national news. The second … Read more
We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue–the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word–the art to … Read more
Today is another one of those days when the challenge of writing this blog depends on finding a back story or angle that has been overlooked by professional journalists and pundits who make their living trying to decipher events and the vagaries of society. The key is often to forego one’s first instincts. That was … Read more
You know, if one person, just one person, does it, they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people walkin’ in, singin’ … Read more