I think it was Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel winning natural scientist, who told of a team of animal behaviorists observing baboons in the South African savannah when a much smaller monkey was spied by a much larger baboon. The vervet turned…
Category: Media
Trump Directs his SOTU to the People, not the Political Class
On paper the State of the Union Address has been from the President, the Chief Executive, to the other branches of Government, telling them how the country was faring. The People, the object of the Constitution, (don’t forget) only learned what the…
Target: Not “the President” but “the Presidency”
The argument is often made that First Amendment protections means we can’t do anything about the Media. Well, yes and no. You see, the Media is a Thing, just as a corporation is a Thing, the FBI is a Thing.…
The Media and America’s Schedule X
Schedule X is not a tax form. During the Vietnam War the Schedule X was a government form that offices in military commands used to tell higher ups how we spent our day on the job. It was a simple form…
How the Government Shutdown is Playing on Main Street
I’ve been working on a piece about how regular America actually get their news, and what is it that is important to them. The first thing that comes to mind is border security. After all, that is the main plank…