Tag: Edward Murrow

• If There Was An Olympics For Mediocrity, America’s News Media Would Always Win Gold

  If the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency proved anything (beyond the GOP’s jaw dropping criminality), it’s our news media’s inability to tell the most remarkable story any of them will ever get to report. To this day, they themselves remain in Trump’s thrall — and they remain oblivious of the fact. Even as the…

  A L Katz

  August 19, 2021

  American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  American News Media, Both Sides Do It, Chuck Todd, Donald Trump, Edward Murrow, Feelings v Facts, Kelly O'Donnell, Manic, Mediocrity, Southern Strategy, Warming Oceans

• False Narratives, The GOP And The News Media: How Bullsh*t Goes Nuclear

  How in the hell did America’s news media get it into their heads that “both sides do it”? Nothing has been more destructive both to journalism and journalists than this idiotic, deeply cynical, perspective-free point of view. Do both sides do it because they’re the same? Or is it just a freak of nature that…

  A L Katz

  March 31, 2021

  American News Media, Climate Change, Coronavirus, Election 2016, Election 2020, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  American Journalism, American News Media, Benefit of the doubt, Both Sides Do It, Dixiecrats, Edward Murrow, Lester Holt, March In Lock step, Party of Lincoln, Southern Strategy, Will Rogers