Those who choose to stay informed should understand how in addition to financial strains and the resulting brain drains broken budgets have led to across our industry, journalistic entities are also often at the mercy of technocrats and new media gurus.
SHARING IS CARING (AND MOST OF YOU SOCIAL MEDIA RATS DO NEITHER)
Why do so many folks shy away from sharing articles about controversial topics, or at least ones that have yet to be reduced and cheapened to a meme or blog post farted out by some venture-backed national news aggregator?
DIARRHEA DIARIES AND DEAD PUSHERS
Like “The Wall,” it’s stupid and simple and perfect for Trump, who has been praising Rodrigo Duterte, whose drug war has killed more than 12,000 people, according to Human Rights Watch. And, of course, Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions probably hates weed more than anything—except Trump, who has been calling Sessions “Mr. Magoo.”
FIRE AND FIRE AND FURY
I watched all of this play out on cable as I tried to deal with the disaster bureaucracy. And it was delightful to see the pundits all talking about Bannon’s terrible week, even if it came for all the wrong reasons.
HOW SCREWED ARE WE IN 2018?
The rich want to steal our money, but they may end up making theirs meaningless in the process.
10 INSANE TRUMP TWEETS FROM THE PAST YEAR
The complete cynicism of the entire administration becomes painfully clear here.
NATIONAL WIRE: TRUMP’S LATEST LGBTQ MOVES DRAW CRITICISM ON MASS FRONT
In the workplace protection case, a civil lawsuit involving a fired skydiving instructor who came out as gay, the Justice Department argues that Congress has not extended Title VII to include sexual orientation.
GUEST MEDIA FARM: BOSTON POLICE SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING PLAN ENDANGERS US ALL
Even the government’s own reports admit that bulk data collection programs have never actually prevented a major violent attack.
BEYOND BLM HEADLINES: ON SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN FLAME WARS
It was easy to take one look at the headlines, glance through Twitter, and #FTP all over the place.
PARTY POOPERS: BLUE AND RED STALWARTS SHOULD STOP ATTACKING MINOR PARTY SUPPORTERS
The RNC and DNC pageants are barely over, the presidential election is still over three months off, and yet major party stalwarts are already trying to police the growing margins of their parties and guilt trip them into voting against their consciences.
