Thoughts and words from some interesting authors
I stumbled onto an article about how this delightful little short is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most repeated TV program of all time. It’s a New Year’s Eve tradition in Germany so they say. It’s too bad people can’t do comedy like this today. Click it and have twelve really […]
Putting Journalism Back in “the news” There’s been a lot of talk about “Fake News” since the Imbecile-in-Chief ran for office. Organizations have been allowed to play far too fast and loose with what they call “news.” There is even a petition on Change.org to demand Fox News remove “News” from its name and the […]
You had to understand how it was an imbecile like Trump became President of the United States before you can ask “How do we fix America?” Please read the “How Did It Happen” series before reading this. Why the blue wave didn’t happen In the “How Did It Happen” series you learned that the Democratic […]
How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. The Fly-over States Got Ignored If you are looking for a soundbite answer, that would be it. If you read through the previous seven posts you know there is no soundbite answer for this. Distrust of the government became large […]
How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. QAnon QAnon theory proper began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by “Q”, who was presumably a single American individual; it is now more likely that “Q” has become a group of people acting under the […]
How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. Sell it in one – continued In the last installment we talked about the psychology of marketing, at least part of it. We talked about Anchoring and Effective Frequency. We discussed what is required to “sell it in one” and […]
How did an imbecile like Trump become President? Featured image courtesy of The Daily Beast. FCC Rules Broadcasting false content during news programming The FCC is prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press. It is, however, illegal for broadcasters to intentionally distort the news, and the […]