"Before Park Ave. Shooting," says the headline over a New York Times story published this week, "Nevada Police Had Gunman Committed." If so, that means Shane Devon Tamura, who killed four people before…
This week's mass shooting at a Manhattan office building has predictably provoked contending commentary that follows a familiar script. According to critics of gun control, the fact that such crimes periodically happen…
You may have heard that Skydance Media is merging with Paramount, which owns CBS. When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved that $8 billion deal last week, its chairman bragged that the agency had extracted…
It still feels unreal, after generations of squabbling and debating the issue, but it has been finalized that the federal funding of public broadcasting is now cut off. National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public…
A few weeks ago, Paramount, which owns CBS, announced that it would pay $16 million to settle a laughable lawsuit in which President Donald Trump claimed the network had committed consumer fraud by editing a pre-election…
"Is a good use of resources?" James Macinko, a health policy researcher at UCLA, asked in an NPR interview this month. "We found that the average taxpayer has contributed about 18 cents per day to USAID."…
Former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said in an MSNBC interview Monday that “I have long believed that mixing journalism and federal funding is just a recipe for disaster.” This comes as the Senate passed Trump’s $9 billion…
On Friday, President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for reporting that he contributed to a 2003 collection of letters marking the 50th birthday of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was later charged with sex…
In a recent New York Times story, health reporter Jan Hoffman describes methamphetamine as irresistible, suggesting it is so pharmacologically compelling that using it inexorably leads to an addiction that is nearly…
Federal funding for NPR is no more, at least for now. Early Friday morning, the House approved the rescissions package, which, among other things, clawed back over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The…
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