Media

It seemed like a good idea at the time . . . A famous lament of those that follow the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ as a good, pragmatic strategy. These things are formally defined as triangles with positive and negative relationships. If two share friendship for the third it is stable. If two hate the shit out of the third it is stable. But the…

Learning from the hack. . .

We had two major political disasters in 2016, Brexit and Trump, both of which were the result of massive, virtual disinformation campaigns. Both blindsided their respective traditional nations. Neither has yet been understood by the mass of voters as an illegitimate distortion of…

We don’t want to see

Well stated, @augustkhalilibrahim, while the majority of the people in this country are appalled and disgusted with Trump’s shenanigans, I sense a profound fear of looking this befuddled monster in the face. We’re distracted by his antics and crude efforts at hiding the obvious because we…

Well, as my grandfather use to say $5 is a lot of money if you ain’t got $5. Actually he said $10 but that was 50 years ago and times have been hard. Anyway, I’m in cause I really want to see how this works. Almost everything needs to change because we need to build some honesty and trust somehow and maybe this is an investment. Of course my…

Good points on the issues and failure to respond by publications. While I’ve only been on Medium for a year and actively writing for six months, I’m not one of senior crowd, but I’ve been terribly impressed with Medium. Yeah, I know business model and how do you make money, etc , etc. But even with the struggle and the threat of ending up purveying…

The Quest for Profit Does Not Lead to Truth

How is the pursuit of profit connected to an objectively informed citizenry? This article does a very good job of covering all the ways that pursuit of profit drove the media to inundate an already misinformed plurality of the population with lies and…

Shun Lies, Words and Actions, Not People

We need to remain angry and uncomfortable with racism, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance and lies. This appears to be the essence of Trump and his cohorts. But it is counter to that principle to stereotype people. If nothing else we should have learned that in…

Ok, So Here Is the Straight Shit . . .

This is depressing but having spent two weeks struggling, along with the majority of US citizens and educated people of this planet, to understand what happened and why, enough already. Read the comments on this excellent article (that only states the obvious)…