Tag: Steve Kornacki

• Not All Polling Disapproval Numbers Are Created Equal

  One can make poll numbers say anything depending on how you frame them. Donald Trump’s poll numbers were especially terrible; h is average approval rating across his entire term was 41.1%, the lowest ever measured by Gallup. When you break that down even further, Trump’s approvals were 4% among Democrats, 30% among independents and 82% […]

  A L Katz

  January 20, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Election 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Republicanism, Trump

  American News Media, Anti-vaxxers, Authoritarianism, Biden Approval, COVID, Pandemic, Pollinig, Steve Kornacki, Trump Disapproval, Trump Racism

• 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 […]

  A L Katz

  October 7, 2019

  American News Media, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Election 2016, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump, Uncategorized

  American News Media, Christian Mythology, Garden Of Eden, Kelly O Donnell, Lack Of Perspective, Main Stream Media, New Testament, Old Testament, Perspective, Religion, Steve Kornacki

• Why Our Main Stream News Media Sucks — “It’s The Framing, Stupid” Edition

  

  It physically hurts watching most of our Main Stream News Media grapple with Donald Trump. He’s so much a creature of their making — his entertainer’s DNA is the same as theirs — that they fail to see their own fatal flaws in him. It’s days/weeks/months/a presidency like this that make me think about Paddy […]

  A L Katz

  August 6, 2019

  American News Media, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Election 2016, Live Bullshit Free, Movie Reviews, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, The Branding Age, Trump

  Christopher Steele, Democracy, Donald Trump, El Paso Shooting, Framing, Frankenstein Monster, Fusion GPS, Main Stream Media, MSM, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Steve Kornacki, Storytelling

• Why Our News Media Sucks — Steve Kornacki Edition

  I consume a lot of news — not so much for the news as because the storyteller in me hates watching the story of all our lifetimes get fumbled so completely by America’s Main Stream News Media. As I’ve blogged here, American journalism is infected with a number of diseases, “Both Sides Do It-ism” being […]

  A L Katz

  July 16, 2019

  American News Media, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Election 2016, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Robert Mueller, Trump

  American Journalism, Both Sides Do It, Donald Trump, Main Stream Media, MSM, MSNBC, Mueller Report, Steve Kornacki, Trump-Russia, Zerlina Maxwell

• 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 […]

  A L Katz

  June 16, 2019

  American News Media, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, False Patriotism, Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Bernie Madoff, Both Sides Do It, Donald Trump, Grains of Sand, Jean Valjean, Lack Of Perspective, Les Miserables, Mosaics, MSM, Mueller Report, NBC News, Perspective, Steve Kornacki, Surface of Mars, Treason