Americans – including 80% of those who support Donald J. Trump – will consider his tariff moves a failure before the end of 2025 if they remain unchanged. Democrats generally hate Trump; for Republicans it will be disappointment. Why? Over the past 60 years, average wages have gone down, but so has the price of […]
Read More →Originally published Nov. 29, 2016 in The Orlando Sentinel. The “lamestream” media, the “liberal media” and other bashing is code for “don’t believe a thing they say – believe what I say.” It’s a brainwashing tool. That’s not to say some – perhaps most – publications don’t lean left or right. But if media bashing […]
Read More →Technology is destroying America, but it’s not the self-driving cars, loss of privacy or generation of young people buried in cell phones. It’s Facebook. Twenty years ago, the U.S. had skinheads and radicals on both the left and right. But 20 years ago, the radicals couldn’t find each other – their circle of crazies was […]
Read More →Trust no one. There are a lot of dedicated journalists, but don’t assume the one in front of you has no bias. If a TV station, website or newspaper swears independence, it still quotes someone first, picks a lead story, and makes hundreds of small decisions that reflect an editor’s opinion. (See earlier story, […]
Read More →I research, select, write and publish news stories. A decade ago, I considered an article unbiased if the story received a roughly equal number of complaints from Republicans and Democrats. That must mean the story fell roughly in the middle, right? Many of those stories had something to do with a Congressional bill on […]
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