By Mark | December 23, 2016
Following up on my post from a week or so ago about how the mainstream press has been struggling to cover the news in post-Trump America, I have a question. I was just reading an article on the NBC News website about Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, the co-chair of Donald Trump’s campaign in New York, […]
By Mark | December 1, 2016
The utter disregard for truth that we’re seeing with Trump isn’t something that’s completely new… I just went through the archive here and found a number of instances over the past decade or so, where we’ve lamented the fact that truth was becoming a thing of the past. Back in 2008, I apparently even posted […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alison Camerota, Barack Obama, Birthers, citizen journalism, CNN, conspiracy theories, Detroit Free Press, fact check, free press, future of journalism, Glenn Thrush, global climate change, Hannah Arendt, Hillary Clinton, House Committee on Science Space and Technology, James Fallows, Judith Miller, Lamar Smith, lies, lying, Margaret Sullivan, media literacy, New York Times, post-truth, press, Scottie Nell Hughes, swift boating, the future of journalism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the sad state of journalism, totalitarianism, voter fraud, voter impersonation, Washington Post, Ypsi-Arbor Progressive Book Club |
This evening’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack promises to be interesting. I tried, to the best of my ability, to book a full and complete show, but things kept getting in way. It was like the universe was pushing back against me. The harder I worked to cobble something together, the more things would […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Local Business, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AADL, Ann Arbor District Library, Beth Ernat, Beth Kwiatkowski, entrepreneurism, food entrepreneurship, future of journalism, Josie Parker, Lisa Hoenig, Little Bird, Melissa Kuz, pulp, Rail, reading, train, Ypsilanti District Library |
I somehow got cited as being one of the Detroit area’s “most influential independent journalists” in Metormode today, alongside Curt Guyette, of the ACLU, and Steve Neavling, of Motor City Muckraker, both of whom do fantastic, serious work. I’m not sure why I was selected for this honor. Maybe I was meant to represent all […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Media, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACLU, ACLU Michigan, Curt Guyette, Doug Coombe, future of journalism, independent journalism, Metromode, Motor City Muckraker, OCD, Patrick Dunn, photos of Mark, Steve Neavling, the sad state of journalism, underwear |
By Mark | January 22, 2016
Somehow, yet once again, we’ve managed to book an awesome show for your listening pleasure this Saturday evening. This weekend’s show will be in four parts. First, we will be continuing our ongoing coverage of the Flint water crisis with ACLU Michigan’s investigative reporter Curt Guyette. Then, we’ll be talking with Andrew Epstein, the new […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACLU, Andrew Epstein, Curt Guyette, Elbow Room, Flint, Flint water crisis, Gregory Macintosh, Jean Henry, lead, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Meatloaf, Rick Snyder, swap meet, the sad state of journalism, water |
