Tag: First Amendment

• The Media’s “Breaking News” Culture Is Broken

  Dear American News Media: Breaking news that broke more than an hour ago, is no longer “breaking”. The fact that you continue breaking it all day regardless? That is broken. The same goes for your whole “breaking news” culture. I write this to you as an avid consumer of your product. By “avid”, I mean…

  A L Katz

  December 12, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2016, Republicanism, Russia, The Branding Age, Trump

  Brain Trust, Breaking News, First Amendment, Free Press, journalism, News Media, Oleg Deripaska, Originalism, Paul Manafort, Polling Data, Richard Nixon, Skin in the game, Watergate

• Dear American News Media: Please Stop Sucking At Your Jobs

  American journalism continues to fail at its most basic job: presenting the truth. It doesn’t help that Americans no longer agree on what the truth is. That, too, is another of American journalism’s failures. They’ve lost the capacity to discern truth from un-truth themselves; instead, they present all information as if it had equal value.…

  A L Katz

  October 10, 2022

  American News Media, Bill Barr, Branding, Corruption, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Racism, Republicanism, Robert Mueller, Rule of Law, The Nature of Evil

  Adam Entous, American Journalism, Big Picture, Binary, Both Sides Do It, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Lying, Party Preference, Proof, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Seth Abramson, Washington Post

• America Has To Reimagine Its Democracy — And How Its News Media Reports On It

  When history looks back at the Trump era — asking how the hell it could have happened — after they compile a massive list of all the Republican Party’s corruption, they’ll compile a similarly massive list of all the ways our news media normalized, spread and profited from the GOP’s corruption. Journalism is the only…

  A L Katz

  November 2, 2020

  American News Media, Election 2016, Freedom, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Robert Mueller, Treason, Trump

  Both Sides Do It, Donald Trump worst president, First Amendment, Greed, History, Of The People By The People, Republican corruption, Rule of Law, Trump Impeached, Trump Treason, Will Rogers

• The Rule Of Law Matters — Unless You’re A Republican – Or In The Main Stream Media

  Not A Revelation — The story we’re all living through (the extended Republican-Russian coup d’etat dressed up as a bad reality series) is light years beyond what our befuddled Main Stream News Media can handle. “Both Sides Do It” journalism has so distorted their perspective that they don’t see the threat to their own existence…

  A L Katz

  November 29, 2019

  American News Media, Election 2016, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Trump, Uncategorized

  American Journalism, Both Sides Do It, Donald Trump, First Amendment, Judith Miller, Kelly O Donnell, Main Stream Media, New York Times, Rule of Law, Trumpism