Within Sight

The news, however defined, always contains a fair amount of pap. Since Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency, however, the trivia quotient in the average American’s daily newsfeed has grown like so many toadstools in a compost heap, overshadowing or crowding out matters of real substance. We’re living in TrumpWorld, folks. Never in the history of journalism have so many reporters, editors, and pundits expended so much energy fixating on one particular target, while other larger prey frolic unmolested within sight.--AB

I'll trust a retired U.S. military officer who has been there and done that before I'll trust certain hacks at the New York Times and the Washington Post.

It's odd, and it's right in front of our noses, but mainstream journalists have their hands tied. Any attempt to untie them will result in expulsion and loss, and of course most of them don't have the will, talent or vision to take on roles similar to Chris Hedges (ex-NYT) or Robert Scheer (ex-LAT), great journalists hounded out of their mainstream jobs who have reinvented their careers as writers grounded in dissent--and are the better for it one might add.


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