Reports and Opinions By Larry Joseph Calloway
DEMOCRACY was not actually “on the ballot” in 2024. That was just a metaphor by media professionals who have lunch together in NewYork and pass around plates of platitudes. Today’s … Read More
The current era of liar’s democracy began innocently enough when President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, a leading Madison Avenue advertising agency, to beef up his … Read More
IN PLACE of what print journalists refer to as President Trump’s lies, cable commenters have a less formal term. Trevor Noah of the Comedy Channel and Don Lemon and Chris … Read More
Experiencing extreme social distancing at home on May Day, I was reminded of something I wrote as a journalist that was never published because I could not figure out how … Read More
By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY (C) The Wine Cave War that livened up the Democrat presidential debate a week before Christmas 2019 was timely because it was the season of giving, … Read More
Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist, was a stranger in that strange land, the United States Senate, and so her impromptu response to the two most definitive questions by … Read More
By Larry Joseph Calloway © A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick (Scribner, 2017) Laos is a … Read More
By Larry Joseph Calloway The networks were so unprepared for Donald Trump’s win that my election night switching caught only one panelist who could speak with authority for the key … Read More
Finally, some media attention to the thin legal basis for the NSA surveillance of telephone and e-mail communications. Stories today about the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon … Read More
The mine rescue resulting in national pride and universal acclaim for Chile was indeed “historic,” but not in the cable news context.
