Some thoughts as I head into my 80th year. I’ve often heard it said that when you reach my age, you have earned the right to speak your mind, so I’m going to take advantage of my position as an elder of the human community and do just that. I know, too, that some readers […]
Journalism is a dangerous business. In 2016 seventy-four journalists gave their lives while trying to gather news for you. 19 of them were killed while covering the war in Syria. People do a lot of complaining about the media, few recognize it as a dangerous job. An NBC reporter, Katy Tur, was covering a Donald […]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. — The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution There is […]
