by seclark59 | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
JUNE 2025 – Of the many sad developments surrounding the shrinking news business, nothing stands out quite so much as the death of overseas coverage. And in places other than London and Paris, especially. On-site news coverage of far-off places has a way of...
by seclark59 | Jun 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
JUNE 2025 – WSJ op-ed page folks pride themselves on their “free people free markets” mantra – and have for decades. But the trend in recent years for them to defend economic nationalism – notwithstanding their opposition to tariffs...
by seclark59 | Jun 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
JUNE 2025 – It’s a report with an undercurrent of today’s cultural divide – a Blue State news outfit goes after a Red State restaurant chain – but the June 3 story about Dickey’s Barbecue Pit restaurants is pretty air-tight...
by seclark59 | Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
JUNE 2025 – The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, at 75, is not just still going strong but he remains by far the best US national security journalist in the profession today. And his column today – which addresses Trump’s assault on the...
by seclark59 | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
JUNE 2025 – Few works of American journalism in 2024 had the impact that the WSJ report on Biden’s decline did. The work was, to put it simply, historic. On June 4th of last year, two reporters – Siobhan Hughes and Annie Linskey – interviewed...
by seclark59 | May 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
MAY 2025 – No journalism outfit – or free lancer, for that matter – has yet tackled a piece screaming to be written: What in the world happened to The Heritage Foundation? How did it go off the rails so thoroughly? Once a mainstream conservative...