Newspaper circulation has been plummeting for the last 50 years. Media executives have tried to reverse the trend by cutting their newsrooms, shrinking their page counts and giving away their content for free online. As the circulation of Charlie Hebdo shot from 60,000 to 5,000,000 after the massacre of their staff, there may be a way forward after all.
New York cops stage a slowdown, refusing to write tickets. Is anyone really going to miss them?
The massacre of political cartoonists at a satirical magazine in Paris prompts American newspapers and magazines to express “solidarity” with cartoonists – even though they have been firing them for years.
There could never be a mass shooting of staff political cartoonists in the United States, because American newspapers and magazines have fired almost all of them.
Normalization is good news for the Cuban people, who have been suffering under the US trade embargo for 50+ years. Or is it? American corporations are already rubbing their hands in lust at the chance to exploit the Caribbean island nation.
After six years of dismal economic activity, two months of positive numbers on jobs and GDP have the political class and their media allies declaring that recovery has arrived. What would it take for ordinary Americans to feel the love?
s you celebrate the New Year and anticipate the glorious unknowns of 2015, take time to think about the men rotting away at American concentration camps, none of them charged in court, many of them innocent, for 13 years.
Tokenism passes for progress in the American electoral political system. After six years of Barack Obama, you’d think progressives would be over the excitement of electing the first African-American president – given that he was anything but progressive. But here they go again, getting thrilled about the possibility of the first woman president – even though she is more conservative than Obama.
The United States says it requires human rights improvements in Cuba for normalization of diplomatic relations to occur. But much of the torture of political dissidents that happens in Cuba happens at Guantanamo.
When will whites understand the pain and rage of African-Americans who watch fellow blacks gunned down by cops who don’t even get indicted? When it starts happening to them too. Which it will.
