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ENTERTAINMENT
George Clooney Subtly Compares Donald Trump Era To McCarthyism
By
Maxwell Strachan
The actor referenced Edward R. Murrow’s famous words during a speech on Friday night.
POLITICS
The Alt-Reality Presidency
By
Richard J. Rosendall
, Contributor
Contributor, Washington Blade
POLITICS
Donald Trump And America's Judgment At Nuremberg Moment
By
Michael Zucker
, Contributor
Independent op-ed columnist focusing on sports, politics and c...
Comparisons between the seismic events that shook Germany during the 1930s and this country's political climate in 2016 must be made with care, but they're hardly tenuous. To ignore the similarities would be at best careless; in the nuclear age, it could be catastrophic.
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MEDIA
The Journalist As Professional: Are There Limits To Dis-interestedness?
By
Dr. Howard Gardner
, Contributor
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor...
A test of ‘disinterestedness’ is the reaction of those who consume the news.
POLITICS
From A Murrow Moment To A Murrow Mindset: How Not To Normalize Donald Trump
By
Arianna Huffington
, Contributor
Donald Trump is fond of claiming that everyone loves him. Hispanics love him. African Americans love him. Women love him. The LGBT community loves him. And Texas won't secede because Texans love him, too. But there's one group he doesn't make this claim about. "I think the political press is among the most dishonest people that I have ever met," he said last month. "The press should be ashamed of itself. You make me look bad." But Trump is as wrong about the press hating him as he is about Hispanics, African Americans, women and the LGBT community loving him. The press has had a very strange relationship with Trump since the beginning of his campaign. From the moment he descended the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, his ascent has been aided and abetted by a very willing press.
POLITICS
Trump, His Virus and the Dark Age of Unreason
By
Bill Moyers
and
Michael Winship
, Contributors
The ghost of Joseph McCarthy lives on in Donald Trump as he accuses President Obama of treason, slanders women, mocks people with disabilities, and impugns every politician or journalist who dares call him out for the liar and bamboozler he is.
POLITICS
Sunday Roundup
By
Arianna Huffington
, Contributor
This week the media edged closer to their Murrow moment. In the 50s, CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow took on Sen. Joe McCarthy and his unscrupulous red-baiting, helping bring about McCarthy's downfall. And this week, the media finally began to call out Donald Trump's racism and point out the cowardice of those like Paul Ryan, who admitted Trump's comments about Judge Gonazalo Curiel were the "textbook definition of racism" -- and yet continued to endorse him. So the media edged closer to their Murrow moment, but they still have a long way to go, judging by their reaction to Trump's speech after winning the California primary. Only Donald Trump could be praised for a speech just because it did not include any overt racism. But whether he "pivots" to being "presidential" or not, we know what he thinks, and we know what "textbook" beliefs his policies are based on. "This is no time," said Murrow of McCarthy, "to remain silent." Nor to ignore or euphemize the grave danger we're facing.
POLITICS
Ali Is Dead, Fear Is Alive and Free Speech Is Being Dealt a Knock-Out Punch
By
John W. Whitehead
, Contributor
Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of...
One could say that we have allowed our fears -- fear for our safety, fear of each other, fear of being labeled racist or hateful or prejudiced, etc. -- to trump our freedom of speech and muzzle us far more effectively than any government edict could.
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MEDIA
Edward R. Murrow 'Would Have Skewered' Donald Trump, Media Critic Says
By
Marina Fang
Media outlets have faced criticism for not being tough on Trump.
WEIRD NEWS
Murrow: A Dramatic Masterpiece About A More Wonderful than Weird Broadcasting Giant
By
Myra Chanin
, Contributor
Author; aka 'Mother Wonderful'; Radio/TV Personality, Former P...
In order to fully appreciate, both intellectually and emotionally,
that
and
how
broadcast news reached its present nadir - and also how glorious it was during its peak -- spend an hour and forty-five minutes with a fine facsimile of Edward R. Murrow.
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POLITICS
April 12th -- the Day We Lost President Roosevelt
By
Michael Zucker
, Contributor
Independent op-ed columnist focusing on sports, politics and c...
The spring and summer of 1945 was a very unique period in the nation's history. Wrapping up the worldwide conflagration in August, we transitioned to a period of remarkable postwar growth and the early years of cold war under President Truman and an era of consolidation under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
POLITICS
When the Poetry of Campaigning Becomes a Cheesy, Dirty Limerick
By
Michael Winship
, Contributor
Senior writer, BillMoyers.com. Former senior writing fellow, D...
For a politician or a journalist, there was a time when citing the classics -- as long as it wasn't done in a pedantic or pompous manner -- was a mark of wisdom and experience. If a candidate or reporter does it today, there's a good chance they'll be trolled and ridiculed for high-handed pretension. Cue Donald Trump shouting, "Loser!"
POLITICS
Shameful U.S. History Repeating Itself
By
Mark Baer
, Contributor
Mediator, Family Law Attorney, Collaborative Law Practitioner,...
On November 28, 2015, my spouse and I went to see Trumbo, which is based upon the life of Dalton Trumbo and how it was impacted during one of the most shameful times in U.S. history -- the McCarthy era. The film interested me because of many comparable similarities today and because the father of close childhood friends of mine had been included on the Hollywood-blacklist.
POLITICS
Does Fear Lead to Fascism? A Culture of Fear and the Epigenetics of Terror
By
John W. Whitehead
, Contributor
Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of...
America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other.
POLITICS
Battle Hymn of the Blowhards
By
Richard J. Rosendall
, Contributor
Contributor, Washington Blade
As many Americans sang "La Marseillaise" and expressed solidarity with the French after the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, Republicans rushed to seize political advantage.
POLITICS
Hillary: Vast or Half-Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?
By
Bernie Shine
, Contributor
Attorney, Correspondent, Provocateur
In 1998, Hillary Clinton stated, "The vast right wing conspiracy has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president." Today, Hillary has been assailed by the right on three issues: Benghazi, The Clinton Foundation, and her use of a private email server
POLITICS
Appeasing the Ignorati
By
Richard J. Rosendall
, Contributor
Contributor, Washington Blade
Any sufficiently shameless and ambitious politician knows that a smoothly delivered fabrication on live television impresses millions more than will read the next day's refutations.
MEDIA
Broadcast News Icon Sandy Socolow (1928-2015)
By
Prof. Joe Peyronnin
, Contributor
Hofstra Journalism Professor
The legendary CBS News producer Sanford "Sandy" Socolow has died. He worked at CBS News for 32 years, during its truly golden years, four of them as Walter Cronkite's executive producer. He was a rare combination of outstanding journalist and wonderful person, beloved by all those who knew him.
MEDIA
60 Years in Journalism and Counting: What I've Learned So Far
By
Irv Chapman
, Contributor
Veteran Washington and foreign correspondent for major broadca...
We have come a long way from "current events" class. And few colleges require courses in history, or how the government and the economy work -- or are supposed to work -- or the role of evidence in law or in science. What I learned preparing for 60 years in journalism, and then practicing it, doesn't seem to be taught much any more.
POLITICS
Cesar Chavez's Legacy
By
Peter Dreier
, Contributor
E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental Col...
When Chavez left his job as a community organizer in San Jose in 1962 and moved to rural Delano to try, once again, to bring a union to California's lettuce and grape fields, even his closest friends figured he was delusional.
MEDIA
60 Years Ago, Edward R. Murrow Took Down Joseph McCarthy
By
Jack Mirkinson
MEDIA
The Kennedy Assassination and the Death of Television Journalism
By
Michael Rosenblum
, Contributor
Founder of Current TV, Past President NY Times TV, TheVJ.com
Pierpoint was one of the last of the generation called "Murrow's Boys." These were the first generation of print journalists, most from the wire services like AP and UPI, who were recruited into the then-new medium of television.
MEDIA
Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Famed Journalist Daniel Schorr Teaches Lasting Life Lessons
By
Donna Rockwell, PsyD
, Contributor
Licensed clinical psychologist, leading mindfulness meditation...
Thirty-three years ago, Dan hired me as a 23-year-old straight out of journalism school -- surely the latest in a long-line of short-lived assistants. These were the first few days of the fledgling Cable News Network (CNN), June of 1980. Unlike his first attempts, Dan and I clicked.
MEDIA
Aaron Sorkin, George Clooney, Al Jazeera America and the Future of News
By
Brent Budowsky
, Contributor
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