Midway through The Brass Check, Upton Sinclair had this to say about the American newspaper industry, circa 1920: The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!* […]
At Tealoha this morning, I showed independent journalist Richard Walton CNN.com’s landing page. The main headline there: “They sold their daughters into sex slavery.” Richard scanned the page, laughed and told me that CNN’s viewership is at an all-time low. It follows therefore, although he left the obvious unspoken, that a little trou dropping is […]
My expectations of mainstream media have gotten so low that, to quote Lord Feathering Walthamstone, they really have to “touch cloth” to get my attention these days. And that’s exactly what CNN.com did this morning with a homepage headline displayed at a size worthy of “JAPANESE BOMB PEARL HARBOR. AGAIN!!”. Sweating big black Franklin Gothic bullets […]
