About thirty years ago, the Long Island Regional Poison Control Center ran a semi-famous ad campaign encouraging children not to treat prescription medicine as candy. The spot featured blue pills singing the following: This is serious! We could make you delirious! You should have a healthy fear of us– Too much of us is dangerous! […]
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Dirty Deeds: The Trumpist Threat to Clean Air and Water
Presumably, Donald Trump didn’t bring the hack he hired to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, along with him to Saudi Arabia because the fossil-fuel fetishist wouldn’t want to leave that petrostate. The New York Times, presumably trying to reduce the public’s contempt towards its decision to hire climate-change denier Bret Stephens to foul […]
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Those Who Voted for Trump Threatened Our Institutions
Trump supporters bear full responsibility for the havoc he has inflicted upon this country.
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Brothers in Harm: O’Reilly and Beck Would Make a Gruesome Twosome
Former Fox News star Glenn Beck has already proven that it’s hard to keep a bad man down–and now, he wants to revive the career of ex-colleague Bill O’Reilly: I would like to say publicly, honestly — and I know you’re not going to get into this, so just shut the fat trap — it’s […]
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The New York Times Commits Ecocide
To quote the late hip-hop artist The Notorious BIG, it was all a dream. A dream that the world’s most prominent newspaper would actually cover the most important story of our time with the seriousness it deserves. A dream that the publication would recognize that false balance on climate science was nothing more than an […]
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What Do You Do When the Press Offends You?
Analyzing a new study on the pernicious power of right-wing media in terms of driving political polarization in the United States, Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy observes: Though the report, published by the Columbia Journalism Review, does an excellent job of laying out the challenge posed by Breitbart and its ilk, it is less than […]
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The Maine Non-Event: Don’t Believe the Hype About Senator Collins
Last week, I noted that self-styled “non-Trump” Republicans will try to blame “guilt by association” if they lose their seats in 2018–a crocodile-tear excuse, considering the fact that these Republicans had the option of leaving the party the moment Trump won the GOP nomination; these men and women could have easily declared back then that […]
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This is What You Call Getting It Terribly Wrong
Almost as bad as the mainstream media’s pre-debate obsession with normalizing Donald Trump is the Fourth Estate’s fixation on promoting the idea that there are still reasonable, moderate Republican politicians in this country, that the GOP hasn’t completely gone goofy, that the party isn’t consumed by cynicism. Case in point: the questionable coverage of a […]
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The Consequences of Clint’s Callousness
Somewhere in Burbank, California, a Warner Bros. Pictures executive is wishing Clint Eastwood would have kept his mouth shut. By mocking critics of bigoted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Eastwood has effectively dragged his upcoming film Sully–a dramatization of then-US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s heroism on the Hudson in January 2009–into the culture wars. How […]
