The Death Spiral of the Mainstream News
We are far from the day when the most trusted man in media, Walter Cronkite told us, “That’s the way it is,” and we believed him.
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Two Terrorist Attacks, Two Constitutional Amendments
News coverage like the reporting on Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Virginia and Michigan lead one to question the abilities of far too many of today’s reporters. What should be done about it?
From Crime to Energy, Choosing Sides Reveals All
Why does the mainstream press report that a woman committed a mass murder, when it was immediately known that the perpetrator was a man in a dress? The mainstream press has its reasons, and they go far beyond school shootings.
Antifa, a wholly owned subsidiary of a billionaire; Bernie Sanders in 2019: “Billionaires should not exist.”
In 2019, Bernie Sanders said, “Billionaires should not exist.” Last year, he said, “We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires.”
Trump: The Wizard of Ours; Scott Adams called him a wizard of persuasion and the cartoonist was right
On Saturday, two days after the FBI acquired the ballots via a federal warrant the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported, “More rumors than details emerge about FBI seizure of troves of 2020 records.”
The Political Agenda Behind Year-End ‘Economic Collapse’ Stories
The news stories at the end of the calendar year are different from the news stories the rest of the year. From mid-December through mid-January, there’s a different kind of article that fills the newspapers and floods our websites: the year-end summary.
The Upside-Down Gospel: How Stranger Things Steals from the Bible, but Forgets the Cure
Stranger Things didn’t invent spiritual warfare—it just put it on a BMX bike and added synth music. The show works because it’s parasitic: it feeds on biblical ideas already baked into Western consciousness. Shadow realms. Invasive evil. Possession. Sacrifice. Redemption. None of this is new.
The Threat of Islam and the Meaning of Words
Our society has somehow fallen into a trap of believing that if you don’t have a personal connection who was directly affected by an issue, it’s not as important to society as other issues. so it is with radical, violent iIlam
Media frets over Afghans and dead narcos; Not so much Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Sergeant Andrew Wolfe
The New York Times had another heart-breaking story about poor scared immigrants worried that the mean old ICE will send them back. This time, the concerns are by legal aliens who are from Afghanistan.
The Razor-Thin Tie That Wasn’t
Let’s begin the story by placing blame squarely where it belongs: Congressman Mark Green (R, TN), a former Tennessee state senator before succeeding Senator Marsha Blackburn in her House district, ran for and won reelection to a fourth two-year term – then announced his resignation shortly afterward, serving only half a year and vacating the seat in July, 2025, creating the need for a December 2 special election.
Thin-skinned reporters whine; PiggyGate becomes the new thing that will bring down Trump
PiggyGate is more navel-gazing by a press that considers itself to be a powerful force of nature when the Wite House press corps is really a joke. The press puts itself in the category of the politicians in DC, a protected species.
The Trade War and the Mass Media
China declared new export controls on rare earths, which by some accounts are so extreme as to not only ban exports of the goods from China, but also to ban the manufacture or export of related goods from any other country.
Social Media and the Freedom of Speech
The second Trump administration has been breaking records from its first hour, accomplishing more in its first six months than most administrations accomplish in their entire terms. But there’s one piece of unfinished business that needs to be prioritized before it’s forgotten again – and before it’s too late.
Trump games Schumer; Democrats have made themselves irrelevant.
I am watching President Trump game the Democrats once again—this time on the government shutdown—and laughing myself silly.
Ratings rule CBS, not Trump
CBS News has been in the ratings toilet for some time. Its morning show is in third place among the three major networks—and those morning shows are where the money is, not the evening shows.
Reporters can’t stop lying, can they?
President Trump enjoyed the Labor Day holiday after 7 months of being a whirlwind of activity after his second inauguration. Democrats concocted a fairy tale which explained his absence as a sign of pending doom. The media went with it.
LGBT outlets lose ads; Marketing directors discover heterosexuals outnumber LGBT
David French sold out his conservativism to be a dupe for the New York Times. This time out, he dipped into the PR disaster created by the CEO of Cracker Barrel. He blamed right-wing media for customers abandoning the chain of restaurants.
Weekly Highlights From the Rapier Wit of Don Surber
Don Surber is back, skewering all and sundry, high and mighty…No one is safe from his ascerbic commentary.
Hypocrisy and the Gilded Rooms
As President Trump worked to find a solution to the Russia-Ukraine War this August, he organized a meeting of several European political leaders at the White House.
August begins. Lies and TDS continue
No, the Rose Garden was not paved over. Democrats are off to another bad start in August. Elizabeth Warren praised the communist wing of the Democrat Party and told Morning Joe on MSNBC: They’re fighting for an America that’s not just controlled by a handful of billionaires who dump hundreds of millions of dollars into …