Why Is a Small Town Lesbian Bar a Bigger News Story Than Pearl Harbor?
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This week, Xi Jinping visited the White House while calls for an international agreement on AI grew louder, Trump escalated his war on the press, and a resolution to the Iran War remained elusive. But all people want to talk about is a meltdown at a lesbian bar in New England’s Birkenstock Belt. As described by
Abandoning the "View From Nowhere" Was a Huge Mistake
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If this was 1990 — when TV news was four networks and most cities had a center-center-left newspaper and a center-right-center one — I might write a piece called “Media Gatekeepers Have Too Much Power”. There would have been many correct points in that piece. It
