Fox's Russian Ratings Are ’Way Up!

“[Tucker] Carlson’s pro-Putin act is so helpful that Russian state television has been rebroadcasting it with Russian subtitles.” . . .

“[I]t’s important to remember what Carlson is: nothing more than an outrage machine. What he offers is not political commentary. It’s Fox-approved nonsense meant to juice ratings — and it works.

 

“Don’t take my word for it. In 2020, Fox’s own lawyers successfully made the case in court that Carlson shouldn’t be taken seriously. And a Trump-appointed federal judge agreed.”

 

—Margaret Sullivan, media reporter, “Now is the time to remember what Fox's own lawyers said about Tucker Carlson,” The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2022.

• Editorial Comment: And All-Amurikan Faux viewers root for the Russkies. Weird.

 

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CyberFools

“Cybermedia will make every man his own editor, which in turn makes every writer a fool. The Internet will transmit misinformation very efficiently. We will miss the gatekeepers.”

—Neal B. Freeman, former editor & columnist, National Review, and  founding producer of “Frontline,” National Review, Dec. 11, 1995 (see Gary Goldhammer, “The Last Newspaper, 2009, p. 119).

 

• Editorial Comment: There's only so much an editor can do. Take Ted Baxter. Please.

 

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Seepage

“Misinformation is seeping down into the cracks of our daily lives because of what’s happened over the past two years, and we’ve got to be stronger than ever in our resolve to do local journalism.”

—Lauren Gustus, executive editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, in Eric Wemple, “Opinion: Salt Lake Tribune alerts police to threats to staffers after covid-19 editorial,” The Washington Post, Jan. 28, 2022.

• Editorial Comment: This foul seepage is polluting our social aquifers.

 

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Big Blow, 2014 (Note: The flagpole is still there, but the lighthouse is gone.)

 

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Wordle Woes

“It started as a token of love, then went viral, and now it’s making people angry. If you noticed that ‘token,’ ‘viral’ and ‘angry’ are all five-letter words, then the chances are you’re a devotee of Wordle, the online word puzzle that has become an internet craze.”

—Andrew Anthony, reporter, “What in the world is happening to our beloved Wordle?” The Guardian, Feb. 20, 2022.

• Editorial Comment: Once something becomes a craze, I must leave.

 

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Arcata Plaza (in the President McKinley Days), 2015

 

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Hairballs

“The press is a blind old cat yelling on a treadmill.”

—Ben Hecht (1894-1964), screenwriter, journalist and novelist, Erik Dorn (1921).

• Editorial Comment: And coughing hairballs.

 

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Winter Sky, 2015

 

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More Writing Advice

 

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” 

—Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), Pulitzer-winning poet and congressional Poet Laureate.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: I’ll be done before 10.

From “Magnitudes,” by Howard Nemerov

Earth’s Wrath at our assaults is slow to come
But relentless when it does. It has to do
With catastrophic change, and with the limit
At which one order more of Magnitude
Will bring us to a qualitative change
And disasters drastically different
From those we daily have to know about.

 

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Beach Dawg

 

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Cherchez la vérité

“I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.”

—Denis Diderot (1713-1784), philosopher of the French Enlightenment.

• Editorial Comment: La chasse, c’est tout.

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The Galindo Stair

 

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