Among the questions included in the Reuters/Ipsos “Core Political Data” tracking poll is the following. Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction, or are they off on the wrong track? The sample size is 1607 American citizens with a sampling error of plus or minus 2.8 … Read more
Yesterday, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence announced he plans to release his tax returns before the election. The media’s response to the news was to ask the following questions of Donald Trump surrogates and their pundits. Does this put more pressure on Donald Trump to release his own returns? Do you think Pence … Read more
Or people for whom I feel sorry. One of the most bizarre episodes during the Republican National Convention was the inclusion of material from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech during the Democratic National Convention in Melania Trump’s address on Monday night. After two days of denying the charges of plagiarism, the campaign finally released a statement by one Meredith McIver, … Read more
The term “breaking news” used to be reserved for momentous events. Before the plethora of cable news channels, newsrooms employed the moniker judiciously as it meant breaking into regular programming and required approval from network executives. Sadly, those days are long gone. When EVERYTHING is breaking news, the label loses it value. CNN is probably … Read more
At the end of Season V of “Game of Thrones,” former King’s Landing queen Cersei Lannister was subjected to the “walk of shame” for her transgressions against the religious cult which was positioning itself to turn the Seven Kingdoms into a theocracy. The “walk” consisted of being paraded naked from the temple to the royal … Read more