There is a difference between Fake News, on the one hand, and fake journalists, on the other. Fake New refers to the end product.  What make a fake journalist a fake journalist are the motives that drive the latter.  Ultimately, in practice, the two are inseparable. Conceptually, however, the ideas of “Fake News” and “fake…

Last week, CNN thrust itself into what could very well be the biggest scandal in the history of the American media. And it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of people. However, that the fake journalists at CNN are as deserving as anyone to be called out for what they are doesn’t mean…

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine from Alabama shared on his Facebook wall an article from Alabama Political Reporter by a Mr. Josh Moon. The title is, “An Apology for White People.” Moon, a white man, writes that “white people in Alabama (and other states too, I presume)…like to pretend a lot…

Since New York Public Theater’s Central Park rendition of Julius Caesar became the focal point of national controversy, a metaphor of the new era of political violence that Donald Trump’s election to the presidency has provoked the left to inaugurate, the play’s defenders have argued that it is all much ado about nothing. After all,…

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