This author and blogger will not be posting for next week, as I will be on a Baseball Game Vacation in Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
Commentary on news developments, which continue unabated, will be pursued upon return.
Thanks to my readers and contributors for understanding.
A free unlimited news media is essential for a democracy to survive, but the Donald Trump Presidency has been working full time to destroy freedom of the press.
Allowing CBS News to be “destroyed” by Paramount SkyDance owner David Ellison and his father Larry Ellison, in the name of “pleasing” Donald Trump and his aim of destroying the truth and the facts of history and current affairs, is a disaster, a tragedy of massive proportions. Their interference with the flagship show, SIXTY MINUTES, is a disgrace!
Scott Pelley, the highly regarded journalist who was the leading “star” of SIXTY MINUTES, denounced what is going on, and now has been fired, and the future of the landmark show, that has been part of the heritage of outstanding journalism, is in crisis after 58 years longevity since 1968.
If the Ellisons get their way, they will gain control of CNN as well, and further destroy honest, factual journalism.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos has undermined the Washington Post, with his machinations at that reputable newspaper, and the right wing tilt of its editorials.
And there have been controversies surrounding ABC News and the Los Angeles Times as well.
All this, as well as the manipulative, deceitful, lie based Fox News Channel and the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch and his right wing empire.
So honest, accurate journalism is in a massive crisis.