Cable Television Changed Media and Politics and Helped Polarize the Nation
A review of Kathryn Cramer Brownell’s “24/7 Politics: Cable Televisions & The Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.”
A review of Kathryn Cramer Brownell’s “24/7 Politics: Cable Televisions & The Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.”
CNN’s Trump town hall drew over 3 million viewers. Does the public need to change?
Why is Turning Point Action afraid of the media? Conventional political science wisdom says that the purpose of one national candidate stumping for a lesser known is to raise his profile to a broader audience.
When political candidates only seek out coverage from the news that compliments them or seek to avoid answering tough questions, it means they either have little respect for our democratic traditions or they are afraid that they cannot answer the challenging demands of office.
“In 2020, the election deniers were improvisational … Now that same election denialist impulse is far more organized, far more strategic and far better funded,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice.
There was talk of demons, witches, a Deep State target list, white replacement theory, unleashing the gates of hell and more, reports Zach D. Roberts.
A Trump victory with Republican majorities in Congress using Project 2025 as a playbook could usher in a national abortion ban and further erode women’s rights.
Polled voters want companies to disclose chemicals used in drilling operations, air monitoring near fracking wells, safer transportation of fracking waste, and many other reforms.
Republicans who stood side-by-side with Harris include former Bucks County Congressman Jim Greenwood, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, former counterterrorism advisor to Mike Pence Olivia Troye, and more.