Tag: Climate Change
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America’s Love Affair With “Stupid”, Part III: When Democrats Get Stupid, There’s Nothing Stupider…
Not a revelation: smart people are as capable of profound stupidity as the profoundly stupid. The instant even an Einstein-level genius begins to view the world with limited or diminished perspective, it’s just a matter of time before they turn as deeply, utterly, right-down-to-his-tighty-whities stupid as Texas’ Louie Gohmert — the (certifiably) Stupidest Man In…
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Lessons In How Media Works — FOR THE MEDIA
I sure hope someone at CNN or MSNBC reads this. I know I can help them. I’ve got real world bona fides in my pocket, too. Having run TV shows, written and produced feature films, written scripts for computer games, advertising, blah-blah-blah-blah-blah, I know a thing or two about VISUAL storytelling. I know how the…
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If…
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If…
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Maya Angelou Had It SOOOOOO Right – When People Tell You Who They Are…
If you want me to be your friend — but, the fact is, you hate Jews on sight — I’m not seeing a future for our relationship regardless of how much you tell me MY being Jewish isn’t an issue for you. That’s not the point, right? You’re an anti-Semite. It’s who you are. I…
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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…