The St. Louis Ethical Society has released the audio of the Fake News speech I gave on July 16th, and has given me permission to post it on this site and as a podcast. Listen to the audio or if you prefer to read the speech, there’s a written transcript here.
When I lived in DC in the 1980s and 1990s, the most popular news broadcast on local television belonged to NBC’s WRC-TV-4, with its anchor team of Jim Vance and Doreen Gentzler, sportscaster George Michael, meteorologist Bob Ryan, and entertainment reporter Arch Campbell. Their 11pm newscast often out-rated the primetime shows it had just followed, […]
In a column headlined, “Why Does Donald Trump Keep Dissing Jews?,” NY Times columnist Frank Bruni cites several incidents as evidence: the president seemingly going out of his way to leave Jews out of Holocaust Remembrance Day; his staying silent on a rash of anti-Semitic vandalism and bomb threats; and his writing a tone-deaf message […]
Julie Garfield, daughter of legendary actor John Garfield, writes about the “witch hunt” that led to his death because he wouldn’t name names during the “Red Scare” in the post-World War II era: Both the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator McCarthy’s committee were focused on hunting down as many “Reds” as they could, destroying […]
Katrina Vanden Heuvel on the media’s malpractice on Trump: One of the great ironies of the political moment is that President Trump’s sworn enemy has become, if not exactly an ally, an enabler of his agenda. For all of Trump’s griping about “fake news,” the mainstream media’s prevailing focus on palace intrigue and White House […]
I have to be careful what I say about this in open session, but here we go… While nothing former FBI Director James Comey said today on Capitol Hill will change anything about Trump’s presidency, one moment stood out. It was when Comey was asked why he started writing extensive notes after his very first […]