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Mitch PerryJuly 8, 2015

The furor over Donald Trump‘s comments about Mexican immigrants shows no sign of diminishing with ESPN deciding Tuesday to pull its charity golf tournament from his Southern California course . It’s been a very rough week for the celebrity/businessman/GOP presidential candidate, with major corporations such as Macy’s, NBC and Univision cutting ties with him in the wake of […]

Mitch PerryMay 20, 2015

Good morning, everyone. I’m getting off to a slightly later start than usual today because I stayed up near midnight last night to see the Golden State Warriors defeat the Houston Rockets in a very exciting opening game of the Western Conference NBA Finals. As was the case while watching another Warrior playoff game Friday night, […]

Mitch PerryApril 15, 2015

Love her or loath her, Hillary Clinton‘s official presence in the 2016 presidential sweepstakes is a big deal. But does the political media class have to lose their collective sh*t in the process? It was sort of humorous to read that story the other day about how Clinton’s delayed video release announcing her campaign on […]

Florence SnyderFebruary 25, 2015

Media bashers, media ethicists and the Greek chorus at Comedy Central will be gorging for a long time on the disgraced remains of Brian Williams. But the credibility crisis now engulfing NBC News is not Williams’ fault. It is never the reporter’s fault. An “anchor and managing editor” is neither God nor a kid with […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 27, 2013

There exists somewhere, I strongly suspect, a school that trains politicians in the art of unctuous hypocrisy. Like a black hole in space, it can’t be seen. But its presence can be deduced from its unmistakable effects. The latest such manifestation is the Republican National Committee’s decision to blacklist CNN and NBC from broadcasting presidential […]

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