Some personal thoughts for this year's unforgettable Father's Day Weekend. As I also take time to pay tribute to my great, late father Antoñiquito, for strict rules, my personality, including the Cuban coffee breath, the corny dad jokes... well, except for this one just now. To all fathers of all sizes, ages everywhere on the World Wide Web... Enjoy your Fathers Day weekend!
We started the day Chilling on Sunday without a dateline or timezone. No rundowns, chyron crawling up the bottom of the screen. No assignment desk buzzing with urgency. No satellite window in three minutes. No MCR in your ear counting you down. Just afternoon light, slanting in the way it only does on Sundays, reminding me that some feelings were never meant to be produced only felt.
Time goes on and waits for no one. For sixty years, Americans have enjoyed watching 60 Minutes, but that was then and time may be running out. Looking back at my early childhood, say sixty years.
Over 350 languages are spoken in the United States. Some linguistic surveys estimate the total can be closer to 430 when including specific dialects and indigenous languages. However, the three main languages spoken are English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
Hands Across America, a charity event on May 25, 1986, when millions held hands to form a human chain across the United States from Long Beach, California, to Battery Park in Manhattan. Remember, Artificial Intelligence does not feel hunger, and the federal government CAN HELP. We were promised freedom and prosperity, not a nightmare.
My family and I met up with our neighbors at a spot on the local line. Several friends participated. There was music playing, and we sang some songs. I remember feeling hopeful. There needs to be another one now, without involving a middleman. What can one person do? EVERYONE CAN đź‘Ť DO IT NOW.
Is it Industry decline... Programming changes - Brand confusion - Political polarization - Trust erosion, or something else?
After the gutting of CBS News, it’s beginning to look like Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his father and financial backer, Larry Ellison, see press freedom as just another bargaining chip.
Are you anti or pro fascism? The entrenchment within a democracy is rarely an overnight coup; it is typically a gradual process where democratic institutions are hollowed out from within by leaders who often gain power through democratic means. Historians and political scientists identify a distinct "societal recipe" characterized by intense fear, economic anxiety, the manufacturing of existential threats, and the desire for a strong leader to restore a mythical, glorious past. From 1983, the number of American media owners has decreased from 50 companies to 6 today.
On the anniversary of “All the President’s Men”. I look back at that and "Bulworth" Two films that hit close to home for different reasons. This is about one movie I was in, and another our newsroom was actually connected to and reporting, doubly so if you’re a minor character in it. That is the case with "Bulworth" and “All the President’s Men”. The best movies don’t just dramatize how journalism works—they capture why it matters.
Let's be precise. Not poetic. We are not opinion. We are not a rumor. We are not the opposition party, the deep state, or a monolith with an agenda. We are reporters. We show up. We verify. We publish. Then we do it again.
The phrase "enemy of the people" has a history. It was used in Stalin's Soviet Union to justify the imprisonment and execution of those who told inconvenient truths. It was used under Mao, Hitler, Castro, etc. It has never, in any iteration, belonged to a functioning democracy. That is not an opinion. It is the historical record. You are the voice of local news: growing our readership grows civic debate and community problem-solving.
For CBS and now CNN, a Change in Ownership feels like an Uncertain Future. A Paramount victory over in securing Warner Bros. Discovery has led to concerns within these American newsrooms. What is fair about the Fairness Doctrine? The best solution for is to see Netflix produce news.