Tag: Bernie Madoff
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The Press Has A Dog In This Fight; “Both Sides Do It” Blinds Them To That Fact
Watching Jake Sherman (founder of the Punchbowl News newsletter) on MSNBC just now drives home the point: whatever talent Sherman might have as a journalist is totally undermined by his acceptance of “Both Sides Do It” brand thinking and journalism. The first thing “Both sides do it” does to any journalist thinking this way is…
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The Relentless Demand For “Bi-Partisanship” Comes From The Same Cynical Place As “Both Sides Do It”
When we get to a safe enough place in this horror story we’re living through — where we don’t have to sweat it every day whether or not American democracy itself will survive — we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long, very hard look at American journalism and the multiple ways it…
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The Reason “Both Sides Do It” Is Bad Journalism
In the “Pantheon Of Wrongheaded Common Wisdom”, “Both Sides Do It” is king, queen and the rest of the demented Spanish Aristocracy. It takes a nubbin of “maybe” and makes it incontrovertible fact. Bad behavior does not belong to any political party. Yes, both sides are physically capable of doing things they shouldn’t and then…
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The Rule Of Law Didn’t Let Us Down, We Let IT Down
Laws don’t enforce themselves. People have to do that for them. If people don’t enforce the rules they created for themselves, they shouldn’t be surprised when the rules stop being followed. The Great Experiment that is the United States is its reliance upon law — not an individual ruler’s whims — as the basis for…
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Dear MSM – Connecting Dots Isn’t Rocket Science – Except Apparently To YOU…
Storytelling, at its core is simple dot-connecting. We start at the beginning and connect the dots all the way to the end – with lots of zigging and zagging in between. The image that all those connected dots ultimately form – that’s our story. As the dots connect, they form the larger context for each…
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Some Perspective On Perspective
As much as I might want to see the world through another person’s eyes, it’s a physical impossibility. The best I can ever really hope for is to imagine what the world literally looks like as they see it. It’s a fact — we all experience “experience” differently. Imagine a cube sitting alone on a…
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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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Let’s Prepare For The Disappointment Now: At The End Of The Day, The Press WILL Let Us Down
Now, I don’t mean EVERYONE in the Main Stream Media. But ALMOST everyone. We shouldn’t be here — at the precipice of our Republic going down the toilet because of Republic-ans. If we don’t pull this back from the brink and an honest history of our times never gets written, the story will never be…