Tag: American News Media
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The American Museum Of MSM Mediocrity Is Open For Business… Care For A Tour?
The bad news: America’s news media has not lived up to its Constitutional obligation to be the final check on power. But, on the bright side, there’s now a brand-spanking-new museum to highlight every bit of their crushing failure: Welcome to the new AMERICAN MUSEUM OF MSM MEDIOCRITY. Now, meet your tour guide — the…
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Dear American News Media: It’s Gut Check Time… Are You Up To It?
I’ll admit it straight up. I’m a “news addict”. I keep my office TV tuned to the news (mainly MSNBC) most of my waking hours. In between I’m tuned in to the same place via satellite radio and my phone. I dare not look away. I don’t watch for the news — except for the…
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It’s Time For “Benefit Of The Doubt” Journalism To Be Put To Sleep
Dear American Main Stream Media: I’m going to give you “the benefit of the doubt” here and assume that the REASON you employ “benefit of the doubt” journalism isn’t because you’re malicious assholes but because you suck at your jobs. While I know that, on the surface, “benefit of the doubt” journalism is just you…
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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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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,…