It's pretty much peak leaf season in Maine now.
Here's a picture of one of these glorious days to finish your weekend, and I'll see you tomorrow.
I suspect it's going to be a busy week.
[Photo by Buddy Poland.]
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'I suspect it's going to be busy week.' Suspect! I suspect you know. Beautiful photo Buddy Poland, closer than usual. It surprised me. The tree tops are more like lace than fire. Thank you Heather and Buddy.
The Republicans v. Blacks and Us. I feel their breath getting closer to my neck. They'll get nothing but 'good trouble' from me.
Dreams
Langston Hughes - 1902-1967
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Jon Stewart tells CNN that media is too focused on ‘conflict’ stories like ‘the Karen yelling in the store’
(More reporting should be fact-centred and less focused on clicks, argues Stewart)
Onetime The Daily Show host Jon Stewart joined CNN on Sunday to discuss the US political media, and condemned what he called a focus on conflict instead of real reporting and facts.
Speaking with Jake Tapper on State of The Union, Stewart argued that the majority of mainstream news coverage of issues such as mask-wearing and vaccines focused on conflicts and spectacles resulting from the division around those issues rather than the facts that could present helpful knowledge for readers or viewers.
“Like, how many times have you seen stories about ‘the battle over masks’, that’s the ‘Karen’ yelling in the store and the people throwing them out, and how many stories have we seen about the efficacy of masks?” he asked.
“There are some, but the overwhelming majority of stories seek to expose the conflict lines.”
He also singled out Politico for a supposed headline that he said exemplified how the media focused on political consequences rather than real-world issues, referring to a piece he had seen published amid the chaos that occurred as Kabul fell to the Taliban in August.
More: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jon-stewart-karen-cnn-tapper-b1939930.html