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Reflecting on the first five months of On The Ground Ypsi, and the future of this little city of ours

By Mark | December 7, 2017

[Ypsi community activist and Southside resident Bryan Foley, seen here in a photo by Doug Coombe taken at Parkridge Community Center, will be on a December 15 panel hosted by On The Ground Ypsilanti about “Ypsi’s rich past, and visions for a vibrant future.”] Earlier this year, the folks at Issues Media Group, having identified […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged activism, Ann Arbor News, art, Brianna Kelly, Bryan Foley, Concentrate, David Rutledge, Decky Alexander, Doug Coombe, equity, future of journalism, gentrification, International Village, Issues Media Group, Kingdom Builders, Landline Creative Labs, Lynne Settles, MLive, news desert, On The Ground Ypsi, Parkridge Community Center, Patrick Dunn, Paul Schutt, photos of Mark, sense of place, sex cat, sexy photos of Mark, Ypsilanti Freighthouse | 8 Comments

Three months ago, Sean Spicer said that banning media outlets from presidential press conferences is something that dictatorships do. Yesterday, the White House did just that.

By Mark | February 25, 2017

At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blacklist, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, CPAC, Dan Rather, Dean Baquet, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fake news, First Amendment, free press, New York Times, Politico, Sean Spicer, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Washington Post, White House Correspondents’ Association | 11 Comments

Trump says he’ll ferret out those in the intelligence community responsible for the leaks tying his administration to Russia. In response, the intelligence community says that he’ll die behind bars.

By Mark | February 17, 2017

At this point, I don’t know what there is left to say about Trump’s performance before the press this afternoon. Every synonym for “unhinged” that I can think of has already been claimed. And people have already written about all of the best parts, like the real-time fact-checking by NBC’s Peter Alexander when Trump claimed, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged alternative facts, Bob Harward, Cerberus Capital Management, Donald Trump, fake news, hacking, John Schindler, leaks, lies, Michael Flynn, national security, NSA, Peter Alexander, post-truth, ratings, Russia, shit sandwich, Stephen A. Feinberg, the press, threats to journalists, treason, unhinged, Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks | 18 Comments

Meryl Streep just made me tear up talking about the importance of empathy and the press

By Mark | January 8, 2017

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Donald Trump, empathy, Golden Globes, Meryl Streep, press | 201 Comments

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker on why his paper won’t be calling Trump’s lies “lies”

By Mark | January 4, 2017

Continuing our conversation from before Christmas about how the press intends to cover the lies of President Trump, I wanted to share the following quote from this past weekend’s episode of the Meet the Press. This is how Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker responded to a question posed by Chuck Todd about how aggressively, […]

Posted in Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged birther, coal mining, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, future of journalism, Gerard Baker, Glenn Kessler, Greg Sargent, lies, Meet the Press, normalization, pizzagate, PolitiFact, post-truth, racism, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, truth, Wall Street Journal | 5 Comments

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Reflecting on the first five months of On The Ground Ypsi, and the future of this little city of ours

Three months ago, Sean Spicer said that banning media outlets from presidential press conferences is something that dictatorships do. Yesterday, the White House did just that.

Trump says he’ll ferret out those in the intelligence community responsible for the leaks tying his administration to Russia. In response, the intelligence community says that he’ll die behind bars.

Meryl Streep just made me tear up talking about the importance of empathy and the press

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker on why his paper won’t be calling Trump’s lies “lies”

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