Adventures in Primaryland: An Ongoing Tale
The Mitten only held out a position paper when it saw The Primary Voter. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be...
View Article"A Bridge Too Far"?
Yesterday, after a year of battering by the forces assembled by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and funded by the likes of the Koch brothers, progressive America finally successfully...
View ArticleGingrich: The Second Coming
Yesterday, I ran across a parody I wrote last spring, a take-off of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" called "The Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich." Perhaps I was premature. Anyhow,...
View ArticleThe Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich (version 2.0)
May the ghost of T. S. Eliot forgive me. I first wrote this a little more than a year ago. This is a slightly revised version... a little better, I hope. Let us go then, you and I, Before Tea Party...
View ArticleJust What Is "Breitbarting"?
Well, for one thing, it is not journalism.When I wrote "The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility" for the recent book News with a View(edited by Burton St. John...
View ArticleGingrich: The Second Coming
Yesterday, I ran across a parody I wrote last spring, a take-off of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" called "The Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich." Perhaps I was premature. Anyhow,...
View ArticleThe Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich (version 2.0)
May the ghost of T. S. Eliot forgive me. I first wrote this a little more than a year ago. This is a slightly revised version... a little better, I hope. Let us go then, you and I, Before Tea Party...
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Just What Is "Breitbarting"?
[bumped for relevance by roxy]Well, for one thing, it is not journalism.When I wrote "The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility" for the recent book News with a...
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Who Can Save Journalism?
Bumped by Roxy - Still very relevant.What’s happening to our discourse?Have we abandoned all common assumptions simply for the sake of opposition?The ‘he said, she said’ that has been at the center of...
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From Alexander Woollcott to "Fake News"
Editor's Note: Originally published 1-1-2017. Bumped for relevance by RoxyWhere does today’s ‘fake news’ come from?There is no simple answer, but part of it can be traced to the development of...
View ArticleGingrich: The Second Coming
Yesterday, I ran across a parody I wrote last spring, a take-off of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" called "The Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich." Perhaps I was premature. Anyhow,...
View ArticleThe Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich (version 2.0)
May the ghost of T. S. Eliot forgive me. I first wrote this a little more than a year ago. This is a slightly revised version... a little better, I hope. Let us go then, you and I, Before Tea Party...
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Just What Is "Breitbarting"?
[bumped for relevance by roxy]Well, for one thing, it is not journalism.When I wrote "The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility" for the recent book News with a...
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Who Can Save Journalism?
Bumped by Roxy - Still very relevant.What’s happening to our discourse?Have we abandoned all common assumptions simply for the sake of opposition?The ‘he said, she said’ that has been at the center of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Alexander Woollcott to "Fake News"
Editor's Note: Originally published 1-1-2017. Bumped for relevance by RoxyWhere does today’s ‘fake news’ come from?There is no simple answer, but part of it can be traced to the development of...
View ArticleGingrich: The Second Coming
Yesterday, I ran across a parody I wrote last spring, a take-off of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" called "The Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich." Perhaps I was premature. Anyhow,...
View ArticleThe Swan Song of N. Leroy Gingrich (version 2.0)
May the ghost of T. S. Eliot forgive me. I first wrote this a little more than a year ago. This is a slightly revised version... a little better, I hope. Let us go then, you and I, Before Tea Party...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just What Is "Breitbarting"?
[bumped for relevance by roxy]Well, for one thing, it is not journalism.When I wrote "The Pride and Reward of Falsification: Post-Objectivity as Post-Responsibility" for the recent book News with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Can Save Journalism?
Bumped by Roxy - Still very relevant.What’s happening to our discourse?Have we abandoned all common assumptions simply for the sake of opposition?The ‘he said, she said’ that has been at the center of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Alexander Woollcott to "Fake News"
Editor's Note: Originally published 1-1-2017. Bumped for relevance by RoxyWhere does today’s ‘fake news’ come from?There is no simple answer, but part of it can be traced to the development of...
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