Hey, You! The President Is Talking to You
This was a surprising email - the President of the United States emailed me starting with: Hey, which was very sincere. Why would the...
Gitlin on Trump’s War – A Sport and a Pastime
First published http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/syria-bombs-tv-news.php
WAR IS THE BLOOD SPORT of television. Devastation on the ground—someplace the viewer doesn’t live but where other human beings do, and gasp,...
Among the Truthiest People Marquel’s Ever Met Is Hillary
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes self-promotion correspondent could not believe his smile while reading Clinton Takes Responsibilty for Benghazi In New memoir, "Hard Choices.” Hillary Rodham...
the umlaut of laughter and forgetting
Minnesota Town With Scandinavian Roots Gets Its Umlaut Back, Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Getting Dotty Section correspondent read this morning and got giddy thinking about...
First TPV Victory: Obama Found TPV Eloquent in Drawing Similarities between the NSA and...
Finally, TPV can smell the sweet odor of success. We and a lonely White House intern and the few hundreds of TPV readers forced...
Gwyneth Paltrow Wins North Korean Cooking Award. Jessica Seinfeld Interviews the Winner
People Magazine’s choice may be arguable, but TPV has proof that GwynethPaltrow could cook an excellent North Korean meal.
She does not use meat....
Dazed and Confused
Those idiots at the Ford India ad agency are seriously f’ed up. I mean, as India fights its elongated history of men’s brutality on...
Gitlin’s Fakebook inside the Facebook
What to do about a global info-and-disinfo pipeline, and who can do it?
BY TODD GITLIN | NOVEMBER 7, 2017 --First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/fakebook-inside-facebook/#
The Fakebook Inside Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg's...
Scalia to Lie …More
The New York Times just announced that Scalia Was to Lie in State in Great Hall of the Supreme Court. Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Lying...
It’s The Economy, Stupid!
Finally, my academic position is becoming a run of the mill opinion. In fact, The New York Times made it visible for everybody to...
WikiLeaks Cannot Hurt the US Government, Judge Kollar-Kotelly Decided
I used to applaud the decisions of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court in Washington, especially the one describing the Bush...
Republican Debait RE-CAP: Cris Crispy Participates, BUTT No Gay Talk
Hell, Michigan (Waffle House), via Teletype— Croshondola, the Pothole View’s Manhole View correspondent, reports from the field:
After the forced gay marriages thingy happened in...
