A Harvard report suggests to Anita M. Harris that the structure of media and the definition of “news” allowed Trump to hornswoggle the press–even as he badmouthed reporters and editors strugglng to make sense of him.
Guest commentator Mark Orton presents a dark view of the future following the 2016 presidential election.
Having made calls and canvassed for Hillary Clinton, author Anita M. Harris is saddened, confused and shocked by Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump. Here is Clinton’s concession speech, which Harris finds eloquent and inspirational.
In this independent commentary, author Steven Cushing draws parallels between 1933 Germany and the present, and lays out similarities between presidential candidate Donald Trump and Hitler, Caligulia, Mussolini, Whitey Bulger and others. He asks those considering voting for Trump: Would you entrust Bernie Madoff with the password to your bank account? Would you entrust Bill Clinton with the keys to your daughter’s bedroom? Do you really want to entrust the likes of Donald Trump with the keys to the nation’s nuclear codes? He then urges voters to, “in Trump’s words, let ‘common sense’ prevail, and as Ted Cruz said at the Republican convention, vote your conscience.”
Andrew Kreig’s new book “Presidential Puppetry “argues that failures in news reporting will continue because both traditional and social media are heavily influenced by revenue sources little understood by the public, including most journalists and academics.
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris offers a brief report on Gov. Deval Patrick’s 5/15/14 visit to the Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Kendall Square.
Cambridge author and consultant Anita Harris invites New Cambridge Observer readers to submit questions to City Council Leland Cheung –and introduces a Web startup called “Six Questions.”
Cambridge writer Anita Harris wonders if proportional voting, with 25 candidates on the ballot, makes sense.
