Monthly Archives: August 2020

Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy

Historian Claire Bond Potter writes in this 2020 book: * Political Junkies is a history of how Americans got hooked on alternative media and ended up craving satisfaction that politics can never deliver. It is about how, beginning after World … Continue reading

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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

Matt Bai writes in this 2014 book: In his 1978 memoir, Theodore White, the most prolific and influential chronicler of presidential politics in the last half of the twentieth century, made John Kennedy and most of the other candidates he’d … Continue reading

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The Drudge Revolution: The Untold Story of How Talk Radio, Fox News, and a Gift Shop Clerk with an Internet Connection Took Down the Mainstream Media

What Happened To Matt Drudge? (8-28-20) https://t.co/lDq5W2DVGY — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) August 28, 2020 What Happened To Matt Drudge? II (8-30-20) https://t.co/NKPRYx3Li2 — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) August 30, 2020 What Happened To Matt Drudge? III (9-1-20) https://t.co/Kau16IAqUF — (((Luke Ford))) … Continue reading

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Investigating the mysterious man behind the Drudge Report

From Jewish Insider: In his book, Lysiak notes that Drudge formed a close bond with Breitbart because of their Jewish backgrounds. “Breitbart, who had been adopted into a Jewish family, would later tell friends, ‘It is kind of weird that … Continue reading

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A Place For You

I just thought of a four-word phrase that sums up my approach to politics, sociology, recovery, self-help, spirituality, God and religion: “A place for you.” We deserve a place to feel at home. Government policies should promote that. People should … Continue reading

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