Under the Microscope – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really make a sound? This, of course, is an age old thought experiment that is tinged with the stink of Anthropocentrism, homocentricism, or if you like, human…
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Letters: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editor’s Note: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church. Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was first published in the New York newspaper The Sun on September 21, 1897. “Is There a Santa…
Study: Google and Meta Owe News Publishers at Least $12 Billion
Alabama Journalists Arrested for Investigating Mishandling of Covid Funds
Staff Report – Freedom of the Press Foundation – An Alabama newspaper publisher and reporter were arrested last week and charged under a grand jury secrecy statute for the “crime” of reporting on a grand jury subpoena provided by a source. The publisher, Sherry Digmon, was arrested again — this time for soliciting ads from…
Public Attention to Political News Drops: Implications for the Future of News and Democracy
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wars continue to rage in Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine, and the Republicans still can’t seem to find a Speaker of the House they can get behind, what is the American public paying attention to and concerned about these days? Judging by what people seem to be interested in…
Part 5: On Unfulfilled Hopes, Shattered Dreams and Covering News in Washington, D.C.
Part 4: On Unfulfilled Hopes, Shattered Dreams and the Big Easy
Part 3: On Unfulfilled Hopes, Shattered Dreams and Journalism
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the themes that emerges from this life analysis is that kids need heroes to inspire and emulate. That’s why it’s so important for young women to have role models, along with African Americans and other minorities in America. All I can do…
Part 2: On Unfulfilled Hopes, Shattered Dreams and Baseball
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you ever feel like you are marking time, waiting for something to happen? Something that is supposed to happen, but the timing is not yet right? I was thinking that recently when watching the movie “Field of Dreams.” “The one constant through all…
Part 1: On Unfulfilled Hopes, Shattered Dreams
The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance: How Authoritarian Leaders Mutilate Reality, History and Culture
“The first thing every totalitarian regime does along with confiscation and mutilation of reality is confiscation of history and confiscation of culture.” – Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Introduction WASHINGTON, D.C. — When I first walked into the administration building of an Alabama community…
The State of the News Media and What That Means for Democracy
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson,…
The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Editorâs Note: We publish this here today in honor of Presidentâs Day, and especially to honor George Washingtonâs brilliant plan to cross the Delaware River and attack the British Red Coats at Trenton, New Jersey on the night of December 25, 1776, which turned the tide and gave the American Revolution the public opinion boost…
Common Sense: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Department of Justice and eight states filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
Big Tech’s Advertising Monopoly is Destroying the American Press and Damaging Democracy
By Ken Buck – Special to the New American Journal – The first brilliant idea Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had was to “crawl” — and trawl — the World Wide Web. Using spiders, it would copy what it found, create vast databases of web content, and then “index” that content, evaluating it…
Bipartisan Support for Regulation of Big Tech Means It’s Coming in 2023
By Glynn Wilson â WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elon Musk of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, the methhead hacker/programmers at Google and YouTube and their lobbyists in Washington, as well as their Republican friends in the House, do not want to hear this. But there is little doubt that more government regulation of social media is…
Democrat Katie Hobbs Beats Trump Republican Kari Lake in Arizona Governor’s Race
A Novel Theory: Try Being Nice, People
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
Frederick Douglass Delivers Address on John Brown in West Virginia, May 30, 1881
Full text of “John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881”: source text edited from print style to web press style JOHN BROWN: AN ADDRESS FREDERICK DOUGLASS, FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, STORER COLLEGE, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881. DOVER, N. H.: MORNING…