In the unlikely event that you should ever experience feelings of contentment with respect to your life, the people in it, and the world around you, there is an easy and effective way to disabuse yourself of this fantasy: Log on to social media. In the much more likely event that you are already firmly …
A left-of-center news outlet in Colorado says presidential candidate and former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper is exaggerating his track record on the death penalty while on the campaign trail.
The American media establishment is in a woeful state of disrepair. In other words, we have the media establishment we deserve. Which is to say, the prospects for improvement are dim.
I used to laugh every time I heard someone like Elon Musk say that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation. These days, not so much.
Don’t call the funny farm just yet. On the major question of the nature of sense experience, I remain with Aristotle and against Bishop Berkeley. Matter is real. But there is also the question of how we perceive “the news”; how established media institutions present and frame information; how we are supposed to respond to the “takes” purportedly expert and knowledgeable voices serve up to us by the second on social media. And here, I’m skeptical.
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo took a shot at longtime morning competitor Joe Scarborough Thursday, accusing the Morning Joe host of having his “head way up Donald Trump’s ass” during the 2016 primary season.
