THE MEDIA BEAT
Veteran journalist David Tereshchuk’s ongoing review of global media coverage.
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Can We Report Justice, 25 Years After 9/11?
AS WE APPROACH THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, it’s become clear that the President will not be at the ceremony in New York, on the site of the Twin Towers destruction and the loss there of nearly three thousand lives. He prefers to be at the other targeted building, the Pentagon in DC.
A Story to Fully Reflect Trump’s Rule
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM has had a field day with DC’s Reflecting Pool scandal …
Dispatch from a Defeated Nation: On More than Football
AS THE WORLD CUP DUST SETTLES, ARGENTINA gets back to business as usual…
Omitted from Observance Of Our 250th
IN OUR NATIONAL MUSEUM’s EXHIBITION FOR THE 250th anniversary, there’s one egregiously missing woman - Ethel Payne …
Commemorative Opening: A Time for Comparisons - and then Resurgence?
A STILL POPULAR EX-PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA, soon opens a community and political center in his name. Will he, can he, take meaningful action against Trump?
Dissecting that ‘Special Relationship’
HOW SPECIAL IS THE “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP,” REALLY? …
SCOTUS: Battles of Last Resort
OUR AMERICAN NEWS-MEDIA ARE FULL OF COURT-CASES nowadays, since …
Iran War Options: Unclear at Best
FOUR WEEKS? FIVE WEEKS? THE WAR TIMEFRAME may be longer, casting contradictions on Trump’s famous hatred for long wars …
Classic Tragedy As Modern Thriller
LETS'‘S TAKE A BREAK from the formless pandemonium of national and global politics
A Lesson on Beating Monsters
THE BBC ANNUALLY GIVES US A REMARKABLE FORUM of bold ideas — but this year ….
‘Resistance’ the New Watchword
AS OUR MEDIA REFLECT EVER MORE DIVISIVENESS in the nation’s politics, what does an effective “Resistance” look like?
One year On: Trump’s Challenges
IT’S ONE WHOLE YEAR SINCE TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION - and another one whole year to the mid-term elections …
Seeking Truth About War - and Warriors
THE DEFENSE SECRETARY CALLING A MASS MEETING of top officers prompts questions …
The China Story: Usurping the U.S.
CHINA’s SUMMIT AND GRAND MILITARY DISPLAY underline its broad global outreach, not least to Africa …
Media-dominant Maxwells — and Me
RATHER UNUSUALLY THIS WEEK, I have a personal story to tell - about the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and her family ...
Argentina’s Reckoning with a Vicious Past
REPORTING FROM BUENOS AIRES, I’m encountering a confluence of interconnected issues …
For the Fourth … Another F-word to Ponder
AS WE CELEBRATE TOMORROW the nation’s escape from tyranny in the 1770s, let’s recognize modern-day oppression …