Tag: free press
How Facebook is Destroying America
The biggest challenge to explaining the evil of social media and the existential threat it poses to free speech, freedom of expression, a free...
Honoring Working Class Hero Chuck Plunkett
The staff of The Denver Post has been fighting for their professional survival ever since it was purchased by the Alden Global Capital vulture fund...
Confessions of a Journalism Lifer
I was lambasting the journalism posers who are getting rich destroying the Des Moines Register a couple weeks back – my newest guilty pleasure...
Enjoying the Slow Death of America’s Free Press
I'm a big fan of Albert Einstein's definition of insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
So much so...
Facebook’s Censorship Rules Are Pure Class Warfare
If the Founding Fathers were alive today, Facebook would be censoring them and extolling the virtues of The Crown under its new policy of...
How to Save America’s Free Press
As a journalism lifer nothing grinds my gears more than when some well-paid sellout in public relations starts opining about what needs to be...
Social Media Gags McGowan, Kills Free Speech
Once upon a time, social media justified its hijacking of copyrighted news articles on the basis of empowering citizen journalism and free speech.
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Des Moines Register Abandons Blowjob News
I stared in stunned amazement at my social media newsfeed this morning as it displayed one of the rarest creatures in America’s fading free...
Reporter arrested for committing journalism
Remember that anti-Occupy Wall Street law you didn't care about when it was passed almost unanimously by our Korrupt Korporate Kongress in 2012, and...
Ted Koppel laces into Faux News
Iconic newsman Ted Koppel is being widely praised by his fellow journalism lifers this week for his scathing Sunday morning debate with Faux News propagandist...