Where Did Walter Cronkite Go, and Why Did He Leave?
Older Americans pine for the good old days of news reporting, and indeed, Walter Cronkite exemplified those times.
So what’s changed? Corporate America figured out that it could turn (fairly) objective news into entertainment, and keep Americans glued to it for long stretches of time, absorbing enormous amounts of paid advertising. In other words, news was converted from a public service into a multi-trillion dollar industry.
Making that happen required creating an us-versus-them environment. If you’re a conservative, the people who watch CNN want to give away taxpayer money to lazy slobs and illegal aliens. If you’re a progressive, Fox News viewers are hateful, ignorant, selfish pigs.
And so it goes.
Just understand that this didn’t just happen; it was engineered to make huge sums of money.
My mom and I frequently talk about Biden’s mental faculties. She maintains that the president is mentally incapacitated, as evidenced by the flawed way he speaks.
It’s true that most progressives don’t want to “come together” with garden-variety Trump supporters. We reject the hate, the racism, the attack on democracy, the war mongering, the cruelty, and the further enrichment of the super-wealthy at the expense of the common person.
This is from a Trump supporter reader, and no, it’s not a joke.
I wouldn’t say, “No one’s doing a damn thing about it.” Plenty is being done.
As we review what Robespierre said here, ask yourself what the motive for the Republicans’ aggression against our educational system could possibly be. What’s the purpose behind replacing school board directors with conservative businessmen who have no background in education? Censoring books? Removing discussions about racism from text books and rewriting U.S. history? Inserting Christianity into our curricula? Pulling out chapters on climate change?
Here’s an interesting piece on a land owner who has 
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A reader sent me the question above and speculates: Once you give that sick type of person attention they can’t live with less. They freak out without it!
