Dateline: Dublin, Ireland — I FIND IT INVALUABLE, always, to be viewing world events via a global lens, instead of through purely American eyes. This week there’s been a powerful array of global forces at work, not least in the Middle East (left), and some good international reporting on those forces. Continue reading “Views on Coverage of a Violent World from Ireland” »
From Today’s Diminished Status, UK Seeks Global Stage for A.I.’s Dangers
Dateline: London, England – THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR has been dominating the media here as in much of the rest of the world. And I’m afraid that like many international crises it has lamentably been yet another chance for the British, be they politicians or journalists, to slip again into an old habit. Continue reading “From Today’s Diminished Status, UK Seeks Global Stage for A.I.’s Dangers” »
Close, but Contrasting, in the Medium of Fine Art
WE CAN REJOICE THIS FALL in a remarkable double exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been mounted jointly with the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, where it showed through Spring and early Summer before coming to New York. Continue reading “Close, but Contrasting, in the Medium of Fine Art” »
Confusion Destroys Clarity on a Crucial Story
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a night makes. Chaos reigns in the evening, but the morning can bring sanity and relief.
That’s how it was for me this week as a news consumer. Having long ago forsaken cable TV news as a hotbed of empty loud-mouthery instead of actual news, on Tuesday I picked NPR as the vector to bring me information about the latest criminal indictment of ex-President Donald Trump. Continue reading “Confusion Destroys Clarity on a Crucial Story” »
Losing a Powerful Broadcaster
THE MEDIA BEAT HAS LOST A VOICE. Early on a Friday morning for seventeen years, Marshall Miles would talk with me to create the half-hour radio version of this column. But now Marshall has died, departing this world on June 24th, 2023. Continue reading “Losing a Powerful Broadcaster” »