Tag Archives: the future of journalism

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, New York Times, Nicholas Burns, NPR, post-fact, Press Watch, Secretary of State, the sad state of journalism | 24 Comments

According to a source, MLive will be restructuring yet again tomorrow morning, laying-off up to a dozen more reporters

By Mark | April 4, 2018

A little over two years ago, I posted something here about lay-offs at MLive. Well, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, it looks as though the beleaguered online news entity might be cutting even more jobs tomorrow morning, when John Hiner, the Vice President of Content for MLive Media Group, is going […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor News, John Hiner, journalism, layoffs, Live, Newhouse Newspapers, Paula Gardner, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy | 27 Comments

Declaring “(Donald Trump) has been tougher on Russia than Obama was in the past eight years combined,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders achieves ‘maximum gaslight’ status, qualifying herself for a position in the Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Hall of Fame

By Mark | February 20, 2018

Maybe I’m just imagining it, but I’m getting the sense, watching video of today’s White House press briefing, that we’ve finally crossed some kind of line. It’s like it’s collectively started to dawn on members of the White House Press Corps that, if the kids in Parkland can stand up and push back, them, maybe, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, coined phrases, collusion, election hacking, election meddling, gaslight, gun control, Jon Karl, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Hall of Fame, lies, Obama, obstruction of justice, Parkland, propaganda, Republican lies, rule of law, rule of truth, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the sad state of journalism, Vladimir Putin, White House Press Corps | 5 Comments

How does one celebrate Independence Day in a country where our President has declared all out war on the free and independent press?

By Mark | July 2, 2017

Well, it’s been about three months since Alex Morris’s “Why Trump Is Not Mentally Fit to Be President” ran in Rolling Stone, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find a mental health professional to say that our President, in that time, has shown any signs of improvement. In fact, it would appear that, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25th Amendment, Alex Morris, Ana Navarro, CNN, deep state, demonization, fake news, freedom of the press, incite violence, incitement, incompetence. Donald Trump, Independence Day, Jamie Raskin, Jerry Falwell Jr., Lügenpresse, lying press, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Pence, NRA, Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity, post-truth, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, threats to journalists, truth, violence, Wayne LaPierre | 15 Comments

With his cruel attack against Mika Brzezinski, Trump demonstrates that he can still go lower in his war against the American press

By Mark | June 29, 2017

Yesterday, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough commented on the fact that President Trump has a fake, framed Time magazine cover of himself hanging in over half a dozen of his golf resorts. [Brzezinski, among other things, had said, “Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of […]