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DODGEY
CONTEXT WHAT IS DOGE? Executive Order - ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY " "DOGE...
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STARTING AT NINE
After landing in Washington to start his second term, Trump created the “ Department of Government Efficiency ” under a temporary...
Aug 27, 20247 min read
QUIET REVERSALS
A pair of revelations have surfaced relating to the pandemic. I didn't catch these being widely reported when they took place many months...
Jul 19, 20249 min read
FEMMES FATALES
In their ongoing effort to frame everything Palestinian as benevolent and peace-oriented, CBC sought once again to amplify the voice (and...
Jul 13, 202415 min read
IT CAN'T BE THIS HARD
With a couple of communication degrees, I think of it as my job to comment on media matters. But at this point the relentless barrage of...
May 13, 20246 min read
JOURNALISM AND PERCEPTION or REMEMBERING JOHN PILGER
Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....
Apr 28, 202414 min read
GAZALIGHTING or WHO ARE YOUR HEROES?
No one finds it the least bit interesting when folks suddenly flip reality on its head and offer up the very arguments they just finished...
Mar 13, 20245 min read
CONTEXT?
The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They...
Feb 29, 202419 min read
A MORE INFORMED PUBLIC
This morning NPR landed in my news feed with this astonishing bit of journalism: Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its...
Dec 1, 20232 min read
“ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA AFTER TRUCE EXPIRES”
NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...
