Odin's Ravens

In a snotty and condescending tone, the NPR journalists said that journalists should not address their audience in a snotty and condescendin...

A sense of humor is sanity’s steam valve. Shaftesbury, in his Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor, said humor is the only real test of g...

I always knew if Fox News was permitted to get away with it, without being exposed, our society would have had it.

Fox News has been softening us up for fascist totalitarianism for a quarter of a century now. They’ve left the American electorate punch-dru...

Fox News has been softening us up for fascist totalitarianism for a quarter of a century now. They’ve left the American electorate punch-dru...

The scripted Republican attacks on Superman 2025 don’t seem to be working. It’s cleaning up at the box office. “He’s creating a moat of wok...

How can Republicans possibly offer such uniformly low-grade, corrupt and often ignorant candidates for the highest office in the nation?  Be...

“(Trump) bears responsibility for what comes next, as do his allies and supporters,” wrote Timothy Snyder in The New Yorker. “Yet some, and ...

For a propagandist, news isn’t relevant and/or interesting factual information to which the public is entitled. It’s a weapon to be deployed...

The word of the day is “sanewashing.” Columbia Journalism Review ’s Jon Allsop observes that major mainstream news outlets are routinely quo...

Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post today, on Journalism 101— “Chris Quinn, editor of th...

I wrote this: “The problem is that at least half the country is being fed a largely fictional narrative, every day, and accepts it to be tru...

As Umair Haque observed, “Think back in recent history. Those of us who warned? That this was an implosive social movement led by a demagogu...

What Paul Loop said:  "I think, generally, the Beltway scribblers, our national political press,  frame all their coverage to keep cons...

Robert Freeman on the CNN Town Hall: "When you marry Trump’s force-of-nature demonic character with the money-seeking imperative of com...

On Wednesday night, ratings whore CNN actually PROMOTED a man who tried to violently overthrow American democracy.  Their lack of even a pre...

“We know the air’s unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit and watch our TVs while some local newscaster tells us today we...

Bingo!

In its constant quest to gaslight its willing victims, Fox News uses panic mongering, character assassination and ad hominem arguments, psyc...

One of the most difficult lessons to learn in life, because it is counterintuitive, is that if some is good, more may well be worse, even mu...