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May 20, 2025
Homeless Shuffle on Gov. Newsom’s Road to Nowhere
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom continued his blustery rhetoric about clearing homeless encampments at the local level. Too bad the hoopla surrounding his new “model ordinance” is all hat and no cattle.
“It is time to take back...
May 27, 2025
Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality
In 2024, nonprofit media watchdog organization Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories.
Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain...
May 20, 2025
Unified Field Theories: Life, the Universe and Anguishing
Like many jacks-of-all-trades, I’ve long yearned for a “unified field theory” of my career. I’m not a Renaissance Man in the conventional sense since the scope of my interests is limited to media, meaning-making and occasionally manipulating...
May 27, 2025
When I was a teenager in upstate New York, quiet, brown and trying to pretend I understood sports, Bruce Springsteen didn’t just play music.
He decoded America....
May 27, 2025
By Jared Rasic
With the recent release of the Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler instant classic, Sinners, we have officially entered the 2025 summer season of...
May 27, 2025
Tradition
When you think about it, Donald Trump fits right in.
The practice of widespread public lying as standard U.S. government practice goes back at least to the...