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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...

Image courtesy Wikicommons Like a tornado barreling across the Texas landscape, AI, Artificial Intelligence is coming, and like a Texas tornado, it is going to destroy everything in its path. There are estimates that as many as 100 million...

Image courtesy WikiCommons History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. -Karl Marx One hundred years ago, this year, 2,000 Nazis, then a relatively small and rather fringe political party in Weimar, German, marched...

Image courtesy WikiCommons It was not so very long ago that human beings believed that the earth was the center of a very small universe. For those who spend their time on TikTok, that ‘not so very long ago’...

At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, Fox News settled its lawsuit with Dominion for a staggering $787.5 million. Rupert Murdoch had no choice but to settle, the evidence against Fox was overwhelming. Many of my liberal friends were...

In the beginning, there was broadcast. There were only three networks — NBC, CBS and ABC. If you wanted to watch TV, that was the extent of your choices. There was, of course, PBS, but no one went there....

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell wrote, “he who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” He might have added, he who controls the news, controls the present. In Russia, Vladimir Putin controls...

photo courtesy Gage Skidmore   In August, 2016, I wrote an article for The Huffington Post entitled Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected. As soon as I saw Trump, I knew he was going to be elected because...

Ayn Rand – image courtesy Wiki Commons  OK, let’s be honest. Most documentaries, and in fact, most non-fiction factual content (and here I am excluding reality TV shows) are pretty unwatchable. Yes, the content is both intelligent and ‘important’,...