If someone says to a journalist, “it’s raining outside.” And someone else says to a journalist, “it’s not raining outside.” The journalist’s job is not to say “person A says it’s raining outside” and “person B says it’s not raining outside.” The job is to open the fucking window and find out whether it’s raining outside. I heard this on
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We are living in a crazy and unprecedented time right now. As the United States, along with the rest of the world, attempts to get a grip on Coronavirus, the good ole of US of A elects or re-elects the next president at the end of the year. The political climate is intense right now. Sure, it’s not Apartheid or
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HBO’s The Newsroom is one of my favorite TV series because of it’s brutal honesty about American Politics and the way our media is operated. At the forefront of that is Will McAvoy, portrayed by Jeff Daniels. McAvoy, the anchor who did what many people in journalism do…fall into the cycle of regurgitated bullshit for the sake of ratings. I
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