Climate Destruction Blindness
Lytton, British Columbia, set the Canadian temperature record. It burned to the ground that very day. And our media covered the heat but not the fire. Is climate destruction too scary?
Washington Post Blind to the “Stimulus” Brainworm
A few days ago, I criticized the news media’s slavish dedication to Republican Brainworms: parasitic memes the GOP coined to disguise their attacks in emotion). Today, the Washington Post automatically repeated the Republican “Stimulus” label for Biden’s COVID Disaster Relief bill.
And so I’m sharing.
Republican Brainworms Eat the Press
I read a Washington Post headline so filled with GOP brainworms, it nearly ate my mind. Our modern media pats themselves on the back as ‘woke,’ but that’s self-congratulatory claptrap. They still swallow Republican attack-memes unquestioningly and spit them back at us.
Poppy Harlow and Real Reporting; Did We Forget?
In September, Poppy Harlow did real reporting. In her interview of Deputy Press Secretary Morgenstern, she didn’t accept nonsense answers. I think I’m in love.
Democratic Horserace
Major media sources continue their breathless coverage of the election by repeating the usual horserace nonsense. Haven’t they learned anything? They focus on the latest polls as if it measures something besides name recognition. They like it because the numbers change a lot. But drama isn’t the same as ‘news.’
Please stop wasting our time on lies
Why do otherwise smart people waste so much of their talent on obvious lies? Worse, why do they want to waste our time with them? Is this some parlor game I missed? I have things to see, places to do, noses to pick, that kind of thing. Why are they...
Lies and Untruths
Douchewaffles, feebes and ninnies. And this time, I’m not talking about the ongoing Trump criminal enterprise. Trump Counters Indictments With Inaccurate Claims Mr. Trump inaccurately claimed that what is now alleged against Mr. Manafort occurred “years” before the 2016 campaign. — New York Times, October 30, 2017 I follow a...
Trump Doctrine
Why are so many people confusing tactics and strategy? I was listening to TV media talking about the Trump Doctrine. For some reason, they all pretend such a doctrine exists, and that he’s not just making it up as he goes. Why do we need one? Well, because he started...
Can you make it a little darker?
Poetry and drama matter. When the Syfy cable channel began broadcasting their new series “The Expanse”, I was conflicted. I’ve read the novels by ‘James S. A. Corey’ (a pseudonym for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), and I like them a lot. At the same time, like any writing that’s...
Washington Post Shows Us What’s Wrong
We need to be careful about how we treat people who lie to us. Today’s online version of the Washington Post has a story about how, With a deadline looming, nobody is threatening to shut down the government. Whoa, hey! Sounds like good news. Here’s how it starts: Congress is...
Washington Post Fails Again
The Washington Post fails to learn from past experience. Yesterday The Washington Post published their article Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas, and it’s another confabulation. They got an exclusive announcement, which is fine, but they used the glossy descriptions in it...