True Lies: The Reality of Media in Politics

  A Sad Day for America I was devastated when I learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away on Friday. A liberal icon, Ginsburg became famous for her brilliant dissents against an increasingly conservative Court. Ironically, she probably accomplished more as a lawyer than she did as a Justice. Ginsburg had a storied career as a lawyer, having argued and won numerous cases in front of the Supreme Court on the cause of women's rights. I highly recommend the 9th episode of the podcast More Perfect, titled Sex Appeal, to anyone who would like to learn more about this phase of her career.  Unfortunately, it took almost no time at all for her death to become largely a political matter. With the presidential election a mere 2 months away, Ginsburg's sudden death would give Trump the remarkable opportunity to put a third Justice on the Court, something conservatives seem all too happy to do. However, when Antonin Scalia died during the last year of President...

 Did Bob Woodward Kill 180,000 People? Venerated and decorated journalist Bob Woodward has a new book title "Rage" coming out, for which he spent 18 hours interviewing Trump. As with all books on the Trump Administration, the lead up to publication has been a steady trickle of details from the book being published by the media. The biggest revelation thus far has been audio from his interviews where Trump admits to both knowing that COVID-19 is deadlier than the flu and lying to the American public about it. So where have the conservative and liberal media landed? Fox News: Why did Woodward/The Washington Post hold this information for so long? Instead of focusing on the outright lies of the President of the United States during a national pandemic that has thus far killed nearly 200,000 Americans, Fox's biggest question relates to timing. Brian Flood with Fox News published a piece that focuses on the discrepancy in timing between the interviews that occurred in Februar...