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For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us...

When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only model that the world had of what a book was supposed to look like. Gutenberg could have printed...

This morning, The Washington Post ran an article explaining Sinclair Broadcasting’s approach to local news. Their focus, by mandate from their Chairman David Smith, is to focus on crime, homelessness, illegal drug use, and other societal ills. Sinclair annually polls...

You may not be aware of it, but the Earth is actually flat. No one ever landed on the moon. The whole moon landing was part of a massive hoax perpetrated by NASA. Zionists apparently control the entire US...

Artificial Intelligence represents an enormous threat to society in general and journalism in particular, but not in the way that you imagine. Deeply influenced by our addiction to movies and video, we perceive the threat of AI through the...

Listen:   “I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers”                          -Thomas J. Watson, Chairman, IBM. 1943   Before computers came along, Thomas J. Watson...

After a year away from New York, we came back for a few days. I like printed newspapers. I understand that this makes me old, but I am old. For the past 20 years that I lived in Midtown...

Tucker Carlson, courtesy Wiki Commons Tucker Carlson, until recently the host of Fox News’ most popular show, was unceremoniously fired this week. We don’t know why he was fired, but there is plenty of explanation in the mediaverse —...

Rupert Murdoch and Richard Sackler In 2022, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma reached an agreement with attorneys to pay $6 billion to resolve claims that they had fueled the opioid epidemic in America by pushing their drug...

Image courtesy WikiCommons My friend, the documentary filmmaker Mark Benjamin sent me a link to an article in IndieWire entitled “Martin Scorsese: ‘The Image on an iPhone Is the New Cinema Vérité’ At first, I thought the article was...