Some weeks ago a friend sent me an e-mail in which there were several illustrations of how public opinion can be manipulated. Depending on a camera angle, a news story can be altered to fit the journalist’s own point of view. A crowd can be made to look much larger than it really is. An […]
I am writing about the blind side. No, I am not referring to the American game of football and the sad truth that quarterbacks do not have eyes in the back of their head. Instead, I refer to the political and social biases that make it so hard for us to see and understand the […]
President Trump often rails against what he calls “fake news.” Is he correct? Are most commercial television news broadcasts and major newspapers filled with falsehoods and half-truths? On occasion, Trump has gone so far as to charge that the purveyors of fake news are “enemies of the people.” Such statements by the President infuriate television […]
I have lived for 89 years and have been politically aware since the late 1930s, but I have never seen anything like the present level of animosity between our major political parties. Virulent charges flow back and forth every day, and with all the din and smoke of partisan gunfire it is very difficult to […]
