Category: American News Media
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Dear MSM: You Screwed Up Reporting Trump-Russia. OWN IT!
A very real day of reckoning is coming for America’s Main Stream News Media: They helped perpetuate the False Narrative that nearly destroyed our Democracy. How many kazillion times has a TV News Talking Heads round table collectively nodded, “Yeah – THAT’S why!” when one of them explained away Trump by saying “Well, the American…
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American News Media’s Biggest Fail: They SUCK As Storytellers…
There’s an art to telling a story. It isn’t just knowing how to line up the beginning, middle and end in the right way so the story makes sense… Anyone who’s ever listened to someone massacre a joke knows what I mean. A joke, after all, is just a story — sketched out in a…
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Fer F*ck’s Sake, America — They’re Just WORDS!
George Bernard Shaw put it this way — ‘The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.” Not that every Brit is Shakespeare — that would be a slight over-statement — but regardless of how profane they are by nature most Brits are a hell of a lot better at using…
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Dear Main Stream Media – No, Both Sides DON’T Do It
I’m dying to know. Which class is it in America’s Journalism Schools that’s confusing everyone? Which class is instructing American Journalists that if you can’t write anything else, fall back on ‘Well, both sides do it…!’? Whichever class it is, it’s screwing up American Journalism to the point where American Journalism is HELPING undermine the…
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Our Retail Politics Are Killing Democracy
In theory anyway, Democracy’s simple: In self-government, the majority of the people get to call the shots. It’s understood that the majority is made up of a multiplicity of views because it includes so much of the citizenry. “What do the citizens want?” That’s the first question. But it needs to be accompanied by ‘But,…
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When Imagination Fails – WE Fail
How does one explain the consistent inability of American News Media (and news media from all over the world) to grasp and report the Trump-Russia Story? Even now when the average panel starts to pick apart what Donald & Vlad are doing together, the Media STILL want to pretend that everything happening is absolutely normal…
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Dear American News Media: Telling A Story Is Like ‘CLIMBING’ A Mountain – Not Just ‘LOOKING’ At One…
Mountains impress. They wow you with their existence, their enormity, their majesty, their size. On the one hand you want to revere it like a sentient creature, on the other, you want to climb it — not so much to master it as just to look it directly in the eye. You want the mountain…