May 29, 2021
Respect
It used to be that one could disagree with a political view point - abortion rights, taxes, or proper role of Government AND STILL respect the person…
Music, power, politics, and the stories behind the stories.
Editorial Collection
Entertainment, Film & Media
Records were only the beginning; attention itself became a business.
I.R.S. expanded into film, television, publishing, live entertainment, and new forms of promotion because the audience never lived inside one medium. MTV, The Cutting Edge, I.R.S. Media, feature films, broadcasting, and brand partnerships all became parts of the same larger question: how do you make the public care?
This is the machinery behind entertainment—the good ideas, bad ideas, expensive ideas, and ideas everyone later claimed were obvious.
Entries
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Apr 29, 2021
Fox
Wow! Fox is really going off the deep end. Like a chicken with its head cut off. Mixing up socialism with communism, fear mongering, lying. worrying…
Apr 12, 2021
Dilution
For students of the media and how money making outlets that are in business to make profits look at how they frame the news, the battle between Fox…
Apr 1, 2021
Tax.
Very interesting to see Republicans rediscovering concern over the Deficit - a concern they forgot about under Trumps record breaking deficit…
Feb 21, 2021
scary
The most scary thing I am hearing on the news here -both from traditional right wing commentators as well as the Democrats is the growing acceptance…
Feb 19, 2021
Iran
One can argue points of the Iran Nuclear deal but the end result is the point to keep an eye on.1. Did the deal negotiated during the Obama term stop…
Jan 30, 2021
Reading current events
Watching Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz might leave one either scratching their head in amazement or thinking they are digging a hole to bury…
Jan 30, 2021
Capitalism and climate change
Of course Fox and other right wing media will decry the loss of jobs due to the Keystone pipeline cancellation and Biden's moves to limit further…
Jan 29, 2021
Truth and the Alternative
Watching the news over the past week two thoughts come to mind. First the divisions in the United States are hard to escape. Watching TV, switching…
Jan 25, 2021
China
Unintended consequences come to those who don't think things through. A short term thinker like Donald Trump made political capitol out of attacking…
Jan 21, 2021
Dispelling falsehoods
QAnon people are shocked that Trump did not take over the government and arrest Biden. In other words what they said was going to be true turned out…
Jan 18, 2021
Thankful
In the end we ALL have to be thankful that Donald Trump turned out to be just as stupid and unqualified as we thought at the beginning. I include all…
Jan 16, 2021
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham famously said "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cant fool all the people all of the…
Jan 15, 2021
Tucker Carlson
These days it is interesting to switch back and forth from Fox and Newsmax to MSNBC and CNN to see how different each is reacting to the events of…
Jan 14, 2021
History
History teaches us the past can help predict the future. It is said "if we don't learn from history we are destined to repeat it". It is also said…
Jan 13, 2021
impeachment
Watching the impeachment hearings today I agree with the gentleman from Wisconsin, A Republican. He is right. Most of the people at the Trump rally…
Jan 13, 2021
The cancer is still there
Trump is impeached. His support base has not been. Worse, the lies are still being promulgated on social media, and media like Fox and Newsmax. It is…
Jan 12, 2021
Fox
Fox is under attack from the even more right wing conspiracy platform Newsmax. Interesting if not so damaging to the country. Meanwhile Hannity…
Jan 12, 2021
Division
The Solution to the current situation is simple. If Jim Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruse and other strong Trump supporters came out and said "we had…
Jan 11, 2021
media restrictions
Fox and Newsmax are claiming the social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook are restricting speech from the right. From what I see that is not…
Jan 11, 2021
History
I hope it dawns on all the Trump supporters that if they thought Trump was so great why did he do something so stupid as hold that January 6 event?…
Jan 11, 2021
definitions
At the heart of the problem dividing the United States is down to the definition of terms. As Lenin once said 'if you can define the terms you are…
Jan 10, 2021
The real problem
We have a problem. As media like Fox and other right wing supporters say 'what are we to do with the 75 million that voted for Trump?' Actually that…
Jan 9, 2021
Spin, impeachment and other things
It may seem a waste of time and a further division between right and left BUT there is a good reason to impeach Donald Trump. The reason works for…