Tag: Kelly O Donnell
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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 Reason MOST Republicans STILL Refuse To Accept That Donald Trump Lost Is Because They’re Criminals
It’s now more than a MONTH since Joe Biden won the presidency. Donald Trump has not conceded (and won’t). That’s bad enough. As of this morning, just 26 Republican members of Congress have acknowledged that Trump lost. For a month now, the news media has reported this strange sequence with utter befuddlement. Why are the…
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A Call For Moral Journalism
It is immoral to equate Truth with bullshit. Yet that is what the bulk of our news media does every day. They equate the stone cold facts of what Donald Trump has done and is doing to our democracy with the utter bullshit of his denials. This morning, Trump’s White House is trying to contain…
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Dear American News Media: This Is NOT A Time For Neutrality; YOU Are One Of Trump’s Main Targets
I think of 95% of our news media as being like the inhabitants of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 — about a half hour before the Japanese Imperial Fleet kicked their Sunday morning out of bed. The Japanese didn’t just “fall from the sky” though, of course, that’s what they did.…
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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…
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Here’s What Happens When We “Pull Back The Lens” — And We NEED To Pull It Back NOW…
Lack of perspective kills. A swimmer who sees only the immediate water around them – lovely and turquoise – but not the school of hungry sharks circling that lovely bit of turquoise? That swimmer is chum. Religionistas will insist that their deity wants them to live according to the rules set down by ignorant (by…