Watching Cartoons
A person could blog while on short trip to Florida, certainly, but it is too hard to study Red Sox minor leaguers and observe whether Tim Wakefield can actually get off the mound, while considering...
View ArticleYou Say You Want Keith Olbermann But What You Really Want is Sean Hannity
I was this close to writing my third ever diary last night (Based on reader response, I'm batting .500) defending Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and to a lesser extent Chris Matthews and Howard...
View ArticleTed Koppel And The Real Death Of "Real News"
During my suspension weekend before last I got an email from the delightfully and improbably named Autumn Brewington, inviting me to contribute an Op-Ed piece to The Washington Post on the topic of...
View ArticleKeith's Special Comment Tonight Got Me Thinking
Funny as it might be, I have a graduate degree in journalism. Each night when Keith signs off his show with "good night and good luck" I always smile. It is kind of a long story why. But maybe a good...
View ArticleHave people noted KO's link to a "Bring KO Back" Facebook page?
I've seen God knows how many diaries here since his termination. I've yet to see one, however, that notes this Facebook page link of KO's. It has been noted on FDL in some detail (I didn't find this...
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The Rachel Maddow Show - Apr. 25, 2011
After my craptacular day, I just have this to say.
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U.S. Government Spying Over The Centuries
I know a something about the works of Andrew Bacevich and Stephen Kinzer and hold them in highest regard. Andrew Bacevich is author and professor at Boston University. Stephen Kinzer is author of...
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June 8, 2017: Bernie Sanders Is Discovered To Have Been Elected President...
In an unprecedented event, two legendary newsmen rose up out of their graves to announce that former Senator Bernie Sanders (D Vermont) had been elected the 45th president of the United States seven...
View ArticleAppeasing the Ignorati
The GOP sinks in brainlessness and bile.Any sufficiently shameless and ambitious politician knows that a smoothly delivered fabrication on live television impresses millions more than will read the...
View ArticleOnce and For All, Mika - It's Not Trump's Access To Your Show That We All...
The following scenario has been playing out once a week or so in recent months.Donald Trump calls into Morning Joe. He makes several statements that are so transparently false that a 6th grader would...
View Article"How should we report on a duplicitous demagogue?"
We have finally reached the point where journalists are wrestling with how to fulfill their professional responsibilities when dealing with Donald Trump. The question I used for my subject appears in...
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To #SaveMyHouse donors + #FridayRoundup News & Politics (new series)
Hi Community!I wrote this story Swallowing my pride to ask for help. #foreclosure on Friday on Tuesday, this week.In my comments I noted that I had written the story as clickbait to get more people to...
View ArticleMartha Raddatz Slams Trump On Rigged Elections: 'A Fundamental Challenge To A...
I added the video below. H/T to peagreen.Watch it now. Powerful stuff from Martha Raddatz.Martha Raddatz does what journalists like Edward R. Murrow did many years ago. She actually understands the...
View ArticleTrust Requires Ethics
A recent New York Times editorial, Truth and Lies in the Age of Trump, took up, again, the issue of truth vs. lies, the denial and denigration of facts, or whose reality do Trump supporters live in....
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The media's point of no return
I have been thinking of this diary for months. Even before November 8 I had this vision in my head of what the media was doing. After the Democratic convention and post-pussygate, Hillary looked like...
View ArticleWhat news outlet will dare to lose money like they used to?
Just a short piece; a little food for thought.When I was a kid you could turn on the evening news on any major network and get pretty much the same story. You watched the guy who appealed to you the...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney channels Murrow, "Love trumps hate"
Friday night, George Clooney accepted an honorary Cesar (French equivalent of the Oscar) in Paris. He used his acceptance speech to talk about “when America was great and news wasn’t fake”, and quoted...
View ArticleThe GOP Just Learned Something (and Got it Wrong)
Amazing! The GOP just learned something! But they got it wrong.A recent post called “DNC’s Angry Appeal to ‘Become a Factivist’” showed up in the frightening but somehow funny Word Net Daily (WND). The...
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Stupid Watergate Is Heating Up As Spies in the Campaign Evaporate - Sunday's...
Welcome to the Sunday edition of Good News Roundup. tRump was rage tweeting around his 114th round of golf yesterday. He’s usually only this unhinged right before another embarrassing revelation...
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