Commentary on the journalistic ethics of both local and national media.
In the 1970s, we were warned of a coming Ice Age.[i] In the 1990s, Al Gore launched a treatise on global warming.[ii] After years of the globe not warming, the menace was rebranded “climate change.” Gore told us specifically in…
The late Mark Felt should feel trivialized. The Deep Throat of Watergate had good reason for anonymity. His flow of information to reporters would have halted midstream had his identity come to light. The cover-up of a break-in at the…
From ‘Bombshell’ to Anonymous Sources and More It may be Lester Holt’s middle name – Bombshell! During the Trump Administration the opening of a supposed news broadcast routinely sounded an alarm that the republic was in imminent danger from some…
There are a few things about the confrontation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, FL, that are in the gap, known only to the combatants. There are many things clearly evident, however, that have…