Maybe Greg Gianforte is testing the public’s attitude about news media. This is one of the strangest political stories I’ve heard in decades.
I guess mainstream media is ready to declare victory over Donald Trump. A week after saying he regretted hurting the feelings of some people his campaign team is now singing a slightly different tune on illegal immigration. The babbling media talking heads are convinced were all hanging on every word they utter...
Republican or Democrat you can’t be surprised by coverage of the Republican National Convention. Remember the mocking of Clint Eastwood 4 years ago in order to promote Barack Obama for another term? Even in his 80s Eastwood can twist media liberals into pretzels...
Steve Martin once summed up cultural differences by saying, “It’s as if those French have a different word for everything!” I’m reminded language isn’t always the barrier when I follow mainstream media in the United States (I’m told it’s no better in Western and Northern Europe)...
I’m not foolish enough to believe anybody reading this can keep up with the modern deluge of media. I’m immersed in news because I’m a paid critic and even I can’t follow the entire flow of information in the electronic age, still...
My niece is 24 years old and I suspect she doesn’t like me telling people about her long past fondness for a purple dinosaur. When I would go visit family when she was just a little girl she would be filled with life and as rambunctious as any typical 3-year old, which is to say she was a blur of energy...
Remember the gravelly voiced woman in Cleveland who bragged about having an “Obama phone” during the 2012 Presidential Election Cycle? “Everybody in Cleveland got an Obama phone!” is what she told a reporter. She was a member of a labor union and at a campaign rally expressing her gratitude for the President playing Santa Claus...