Killing the Messenger

From an article titled State of Terror, written by Keith Gessen and published by The New Yorker on November 6, 2017: Stalin soon began to receive warnings of an imminent German invasion. Despite the ravages of the Terror, his anti-Nazi spy network was still the best in the world. Hitler issued a top-secret order for […]

Truth & Truthiness

So Ira Glass touched a Daisey and got his fingers singed.*  Glass, host of the popular National Public Radio show This American Life,  aired Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a monologue about working conditions at Apple’s suppliers in China.  Glass and his staff at This American Life thought Daisey’s assertions […]