Is the media to report the news…or create it? In 2016 the MSM seemed to decide that they needed to stop Trump. First from getting elected, then while he was in office. Yet the media should NOT be creating the news or working against any one politician unless they work as a watchdog against all …
Monthly Archives: March 2021
What Do You Want from Your Country?
Do you want: Equal Opportunity? or Equal Outcomes? If you want Equal Opportunity, then you would support color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, ethnic-blind laws and policies. And…..because of historical denial of equal opportunity, you could, and perhaps would, support some measures to “catch-up” for those who had previously been denied. Such measures to “catch-up” would have to …
Freedom of the Press? Why?
The Constitution was drafted, debated, and approved at the Constitutional Convention without any delineation of individual rights and freedoms. Because…it was believed by many…that such declarations were unnecessary. Since any power and authority of government was explicitly described. Thus the limits of government’s power would be clear. However, (pardon the simplicity) enough argued they would …
Nursing Home Deaths=Cuomo Great
Order nursing homes in New York to admit Covid 19 positive patients…in late March 2020 when the pandemic had already hit New York, which was the epicenter in the US for infections and deaths, and infection rate per capita and deaths per capita. And then keep that order in effect at least well in to …
Freedoms or Democrats
I don’t say the “N” word. Out of recognition and respect. Because of what it means to some. And how it’s been used to hurt black people. But I have the right to say it. I don’t draw pictures of Muhammad. Out of respect for the beliefs of others (Muslims, in this case). But I …
Who Are Your Sources for News
Freedom of the Press is enshrined in the Constitution to protect the Fourth Estate, the media, as it fulfills its role. Which is to be a watchdog on politicians and government. Reporting accurately, skeptically questioning and examining, always vigilant in expecting politicians/government to slip off the rails and go after power, money, influence, and control. …