WHILE THE MEDIA UNIVERSE, or at least the American media universe, gets ever more besotted with the Republican Party’s bafflement over Donald Trump, and Fox News’ showcasing of the party eating itself alive, and with Hillary Clinton’s private email server supposedly threatening her securing of the Democratic nomination … there sits quietly a powerful news story that is gaining precious little attention.

That’s in spite of it being simply quite astonishing – in fact, virtually unheard of in history.     Continue reading “‘Good News’ Story on Polio, though Soft-pedaled by its Own Champions” »

THERE IS SOME SMALL COMFORT since the horrific murders at Emanuel AME Church, Charleston to see South Carolina at last removing the Confederate battle-flag from the state’s Capitol grounds, and dispatching it to the relic room.      Continue reading “Racist Church Attacks – An Opposite Side to the Story” »

JUST DAYS AFTER his ballyhooed business ‘restructuring’, Rupert Murdoch is seen to be moving in two opposing directions.

If we believe the official 21^st Century Fox announcement, the empire’s paterfamilias is withdrawing backwards. Doing a fade-out, as it were (to cite an Old Media visual effect) by yielding the CEO seat to his younger son James Murdoch.   Continue reading ““Fascist!” Accusations – This is no Fading Father Figure” »

The Al Jazeera TV news organization that began in Qatar missed a great opportunity when it started Al Jazeera America (AJAM), using the cable channel it bought from ex-Vice President Al Gore‘s Current TV.   Continue reading “Al Jazeera’s Management Style Echoes Country-of-Origin’s” »

MUCH ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CAN be quite monumentally awe-inspiring. It’s designed to be, after all.

Often it’s in a good way. From the Pope’s elevating addresses to vast crowds in St Peter’s Square – as well as to the Orbe, our wider electronically-watching world – all the way through to that same Pope memorably washing the feet of disabled men and women.    Continue reading “New PR Disaster for Catholic Church – Dissing the Deaf” »