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A CONFUSING UNFOLDING

A CONFUSING UNFOLDING

 

A poem from which many of my gen­er­a­tion drew per­ceived wis­dom includes the line: “And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the uni­verse is unfold­ing as it should.”.To my deep cha­grin, I find it is not clear, and I sin­cere­ly hope there’s a course cor­rec­tion in the unfold­ing bit, start­ing with the way we’re being kept up to date with the process.Read the rest

LIVE AND LEGITIMATE AREN’T ALWAYS LINKED

LIVE AND LEGITIMATE AREN’T ALWAYS LINKED

The metaphor­i­cal beat­ing of breasts and rend­ing of gar­ments over CNNs’ “town hall” with Don­ald Trump is a salient les­son that pro­vid­ing live air time for proven liars and dis­sem­blers, not­ed for a pro­cliv­i­ty to con­trol the nar­ra­tive, is the equiv­a­lent of allow­ing them to write the script, and there’s enough of that done by flaks and syco­phants with­out adding to the pool.Read the rest

WEIGHING UP THE UNWORTHY IS WORTHY OF UNUSUAL WORDS

WEIGHING UP THE UNWORTHY IS WORTHY OF UNUSUAL WORDS

As a jour­nal­ist, noth­ing about  FOX “News” inclines me to be any­thing but pro­fane­ly dis­parag­ing of their ultra­crepri­dar­i­an law­suit defence of com­mit­ment to “the high­est jour­nal­is­tic stan­dards.” In an effort to com­ment and still main­tain deco­rum, I sought affla­tus (not what sprang to your mind) from a delight­ful work called “Foyle’s Philav­ery”.Read the rest

The Once Great, Replaced

The Once Great, Replaced

Some years ago, a cam­era­man gave me one of the tee shirts he’d sold as a side­line at a Repub­li­can con­ven­tion. The front read “Life in News”. On the back, in large type, was print­ed “BLAME IT ON THE MEDIA.” Del­e­gates, he told me, didn’t get the joke. Today, it’s in dan­ger of becom­ing less a joke than a jus­ti­fi­able truism.Read the rest