Tag Archives: New York Times

The Untold History of Zines… Doug Holland on Pathetic Life

By Mark | October 3, 2021

When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak with. I’d been told by multiple people that Doug Holland, the man behind the legendary zine […]

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Now this is how you interview a member of the most corrupt administration in U.S. history

By Mark | January 24, 2020

Back in December of 2016, I attended a panel at the University of Michigan called Covering Trump: The Presidency and The Press in Turbulent Times. In retrospect, the conversation between the journalists on the panel that evening, who represented news entities like the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post, was quaint. […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged All Things Considered, conspiracy theories, Dan Froomkin, diplomacy, future of journalism, journalism, Marie Yovanovitch, Mary Louise Kelly, Mike Pompeo, Nicholas Burns, NPR, post-fact, Press Watch, Secretary of State, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism | 24 Comments

It looks as though Trump really did ghostwrite Don Jr.’s laughably pathetic letter attempting to explain his Trump Tower meeting with Russians as having been about international adoption policy

By Mark | January 8, 2018

By now we’ve all read at least a significant portion of the Michael Wolff book, right? If not, please turn away from your computer for a minute, as what I’m about to say might be considered something of a spoiler… The biggest takeaway from Fire and the Fury, as least as I see it, isn’t […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged adoption, Bob Corker, coverups, Don McGahn, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Fargo, Fire and Fury, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Hope Hicks, Ivanka Trump, James Comey, Jared Kushner, John Bonener, Lester Holt, Lindsey Graham, Michael Flynn, Michael Wolff, obstruction of justice, orphans, Paul Manafort, Russia, Russiagate, stable genius, Steve Bannon, treason | 16 Comments

Down the staircase and through the rabbit hole…

By Mark | November 26, 2017

As I type this, I’m laying on the couch in our living room, silently watching the family cat slowly disembowel a naugahyde chair on the other side of the room, as I try to assess just how broken I am. As I was able to walk on my own from the bottom of the staircase […]

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It’s easy to gain momentum when you’re going downhill, Newt

By Mark | August 7, 2017

It's easy to gain momentum when you're going downhill — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) August 7, 2017 [I was going to post something tonight about how Trump had lied earlier today when he referred to the New York Times as failing, but then I remembered that, not too long ago, I’d promised to stop focusing on […]