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 →People are a messy amalgamation of tastes, intellect, backgrounds and foibles. We think we understand how things work, but we’re usually wrong. It’s akin to a pack of orcas thinking that all sea animals like seal meat simply because each one of the 10 orcas in their pod just love seal meat. Like the orcas, […]
Read More →The world is a polarized place. Our differences, however, may be biological as much as ideological. Fact No. 1: People with autism have trouble empathizing with other people. They simply don’t identify tricky non-verbal cues and, as a result, can’t share in someone else’s happiness or sadness. (An overly simple explanation.) Fact No. 2: […]
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 […]
Read More →In the 1960s, Walter Cronkite delivered television news. To journalists, Walter was a god – an unbiased reporter who didn’t spin stories. Americans got facts and formed their own opinions. However, the U.S. only had three television stations in the 1960s. If a station’s stories teetered to the political left or right, they’d offend […]
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