Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.
This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?