AS BEFITS OUR FRACTURED TIMES – and especially during the seemingly endless Trumpathon that is the 2020 Republic National Convention – we can and should turn our critical attention to the dark arts of disinformation. And how to fight them. Continue reading “Necessary Onslaught Against Disinformation” »
WITH THE WHITE HOUSE ‘initiative’ for Mid-East peace now wholly failed (because wholly biased), the words ‘peace’ or even ‘accommodation’ now appear unspeakable in the Oval Office, in all matters foreign and domestic. The divisive viciousness of the Trump campaign is now set for the months until November. Continue reading “WATCH: A ‘We Are Equal’ Declaration on July 4th … But applied to Arab-Israeli Differences” »
A NATION – NO, A WORLD – INFLAMED over racial injustice … rampant disease wreaking worldwide havoc but provoking feckless denial and inaction from authorities … many populations’ livelihoods in ruins. At such a time, the transformed media ecosystem must assuredly take serious stock of its responsibilities.
Not a moment too soon for such self-reflection, there comes from one of the world’s leading news agencies, Reuters, another of the Digital News Reports that are published annually by the Reuters Institute. Continue reading “A Reckoning: Are the Media Trustworthy Amid Triple-Threat Crisis?” »
A PRESIDENT CRAZILY at odds with medical science. A nation reeling from disease that rampages through its ranks. But the man at the top merely sows confusion, and vindictively punishes those who might contradict him. Continue reading “May Day Message: Clarity vs Obfuscation, in a Time of Disease” »
TIME SPENT IN LOCK-DOWN, as now with our COVID19-imposed sentences of unending house-arrest, can be time well-spent in reflection … and even more in reading.
Not everybody will fulfill their long-avoided completion of À La Recherche du Temps Perdu or War and Peace, and I have for my part made a point of sinking into much lighter fare. Continue reading “A Journalist’s Throw-Back In Reading: Voluminous Verbiage” »
