malcolmcarter.bsky.social
@malcolmcarter.bsky.social
The distinction between breaking news and latest news seems to have been permanently lost on most news programs. News that is "breaking" has just happened or still is happening. Latest news could be even a day old. It is one distinction with a difference.
January 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Man is sobbing as he watches clip of Palisades fire destroy his church, and @CNN anchor asks him what he is feeling. WHAT?
January 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Clarissa Ward of CNN is on track to win big award(s) for her movingly comprehensive coverage of what has happened in Syria.
December 13, 2024 at 6:09 AM
The Maggiano outburst on his way into court reminds me of David Berkowitz's ("Son of Sam") wild-eyed appearance in a Brooklyn court in the 1980s. As he entered, he kept shouting a taunt about one of his victims: "Tracy is a whore." His rant understandably seemed to shock everyone in the courtroom.
December 11, 2024 at 12:22 AM
What an absolutely terrible idea, which fails to account for how devastating leftover mines have been:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:22 PM