WHAT A DIFFERENCE a night makes. Chaos reigns in the evening, but the morning can bring sanity and relief.
That’s how it was for me this week as a news consumer. Having long ago forsaken cable TV news as a hotbed of empty loud-mouthery instead of actual news, on Tuesday I picked NPR as the vector to bring me information about the latest criminal indictment of ex-President Donald Trump. Continue reading “Confusion Destroys Clarity on a Crucial Story” »
THE MEDIA BEAT HAS LOST A VOICE. Early on a Friday morning for seventeen years, Marshall Miles would talk with me to create the half-hour radio version of this column. But now Marshall has died, departing this world on June 24th, 2023. Continue reading “Losing a Powerful Broadcaster” »
UKRAINE’S NEW AND LONG-AWAITED counteroffensive against the Russian invasion has made this a bad time to be a peacemaker.
Much of the world’s press decried the attempt to start talks, led by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa (photo-montaged, left, with warring presidents). Continue reading “Untold Story Behind Unlikely Peace Mission” »
Dateline Dublin, Ireland — THERE’S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON, of course, why a country’s national theater shouldn’t perform a classic play from a completely different nation. Continue reading “Family Burdens In A Sharp Re-Telling” »
MY LOCAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY is the dogged Alvin Bragg. We are both boosters of our shared hometown, in our somewhat different ways. Continue reading “Press Jamboree over Trump Criminal Case – Obfuscating Precise Detail” »
