Category Archives: News media

Why must news media report EVERYTHING Trump says and does?

So much in this world depends upon character that attention has to be paid to bad character even when it is not deserved. — Anthony Trollope, Dr. Wortle’s School

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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading

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Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading

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