Ostriches

“If there is a media lesson to be drawn from the Trump years, it is that most of the profound problems of the United States — the ingrained racism, the xenophobia, the rank sexism — have been percolating for years, unnoticed by much of the American press; it took a singularly racist, sexist, xenophobic leader to finally force the media to reckon with the stew that had long been simmering.” 

—Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, reporters, “The media are complacent while the world burns,” Columbia Journalism Review, April 30, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Where’s Paul Revere when you need him?

Fair Warning: The WORD hears the clear siren of St. Mumbles calling. That, and the salmon season opens here soon. Thus, the 2018-19 season will end Friday when the nice men with broken noses and white coats come to collect him. Brace yourselves.

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Squirrel Point, Maine

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