Just as the media and national attention seemed to have moved away from the issue of gun violence, there’s another school shooting.
Parkland shooting
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Channeling Rage: Trump and Fox News
Here we stand Remote control buttons In our sweaty little hands As one man We’re lining up and waiting For someone’s command… TV rules– Pretty soon you won’t be able To turn it off at all! All you fools Then it will turn you off— Your back’s against the wall! —“T.V. Age,” Joe Jackson, 1982 […]
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Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised […]
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You Know, CNN, You Could Have Had Emma Gonzalez On Instead of Rick Santorum
It was as offensive as it can possibly get. Just one day after the historic March for Our Lives, CNN, bowing down once again to the god of false balance, just had to bring former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum onto the panel of State of the Union this morning to spit all over the children […]
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Why are Parkland Students So Articulate? Because They Were Taught Civics in Middle School
Students in Florida have benefitted from the country’s most successful effort to teach civic knowledge and engagement.
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The Heroism of Immigrant Students at Stoneman Douglas High School
There are students who owe their very lives to the fact that this country welcomed these immigrant families.
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Mainstream Media, Stop the Free Publicity for Killers
You know, we really don’t need to know his name. It is long past time for American print, broadcast and cable entities to agree to implement a firm policy of not naming the perpetrators of mass murder similar to the modern-era St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Parkland, Florida. Giving free publicly to these natural-born killers […]
