What's the Frequency, Paul

08/07/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/579869-we-ll-fix-it-in-post-told-through-narration

03/07/2025

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dan-rather-paramount-trump-suit-settlement-sell-out-1236446675/

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather shared his support for "60 Minutes" and disappointment in Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement: 'It was a sell-out.'

02/07/2025

You can tsk tsk the Paramount settlement with Trump over the 60 Minutes suit. CBS reportedly paid 16 million.

That's a million more than the 15 million Disney reportedly paid to settle Trump's beef with ABC News' Stephanopolous.

I guess it cost CBS a million more for refusing to apologize to Trump.

You're missing the point.

World News Tonight led last night with the partial verdict in the Diddy trial.

CBS Evening News led with Trump helping to dedicate Alligator Alcatraz for detained migrants.

NBC Nightly led with...who cares?

CBS and ABC did NOT lead with Trump's agenda bill.

The Senate voted for the biggest redistribution of wealth in this country's history..from the poor to the rich....by dumping people off medicaid healthcare for the poor and food assistance to the poor to pay for tax cuts for the richest Americans and corporations...under the guise of rooting out "waste, fraud and abuse."

Yet, ABC went with a jury reaching partial verdicts..that weren't even announced.

Yet, CBS led with Alligator Alley ..and covered it in a way that might make anyone who remembers Murrow and Harvest of Shame feel ashamed of what time and Trump have wrought

If you were going to lead with Alligator Alcatraz and never mention that the cruelty IS the point..what was the point of leading with it?

And now back to the Diddy trial...with ALL the verdicts in.

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01/07/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/579213-you-break-it-you-bought-it-told-through-narra

Medicaid. Iran. Momdani, Prog Dems and Dem Dems and MAGA. Alligator Alcatraz ( The cruelty IS The Point). RFK jr vs. Vaccines. RFK jr Vs. Rep Kim Schrier D Wa. Trump vs. Canadian PM Carney. Again. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)

27/06/2025

It's now clear the birthright ruling isn't about birthright.

It's about curbing the power of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions blocking ANY of Trump's executive orders...mass deportations, mass firings, you name it.

For the sake of accuracy, i will call it The Animal Farm decision...you know, all animals are created equal...but Trump animals are more equal than other animals.

Of course, this is on top of the Republican controlled Dumas... i mean Congress..rubber stamping the Trump agenda. (Great Big Beautiful Bill ...come on down!)

With customary humility, Trump took to the spotlight to proclaim complete obliteration of his domestic opponents. No doubt, he will soon question the patriotism of anyone who would disdain the quality of his appointees to DOD, HHS..not to mention his Supreme Court picks.

Sure, you were distracted by Trump probing for leaks at the DIA...dropping Penetrator bombs at Fordow...maybe a chortle over Biden The Autopen..when you should have worried over Trump The Autocrat.

Likewise, while Trump howls about a NY mayoralty by Mamdani The Commie..maybe we should worry about Trump's version of Moscow on Hudson.

Not that there was any reason to doubt it. Trump today promised more executive orders. You can bet the Stephen Miller mill is threshing them out ...and coming soon to a state near you.

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27/06/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/578193-the-other-shoe-fri-june-27-2025-update-told-t

THIS VERSION INCLUDES SCOTUS BIRTHRIGHT AND ALSO CLEARING THE WAY FOR STATES BESIDES SOUTH CAROLINA TO DENY MEDICAID MONEY TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD...FOR ANY AND ALL SERVICES. War and Peace. And Pieces. And NATO. And SCOTUS. And Mass Deportation. And Mass Heat Dome.. And War and Peace Pt 2. (Told Throu...

26/06/2025

R. I.P Bill Moyers.

An exceptional journalist..and the exception who proves the rule.

I've always had a "thing" about "cross-overs"... journalists who go to work for the government or a politician...or cross over the other way.

I've always felt that it feeds public suspicion that journalists have partisan political agendas..even the ones who don't cross over.

Didn't feel that way about Bill Moyers ( or Jeff Greenfield...who i first met when i was working atWBAI and Jeff was known for his writing for Mayor Lindsay and Bobby Kennedy...the original...and who i met later again when Jeff did campaign politics/media coverage for The CBS Evening News during my time as a writer at Eve News. And yes, Jeff had the job at Eve News after Bill Moyers did the same for us.

And while I'm at it, there's Ellen Fleysher...who reported at WCBS TV...did press for NYPD...and did news producing at The CBS Evening News.

Three GREAT crossovers..who stood out because others who do it..DON'T make the transition work well.

My first,best memory of Bill Moyers...New Hampshire primary, 1984. As the political writer on Evening News, and by nature, i really tried to be low key...better to observe than to talk...so not keen at sitting for dinner at the table with the "grown-ups".

Bill Moyers makes a point of sitting down with us at "the kids table"....because he want to know what WE think...and he wants to know what I think about why the sound bites on Eve News pieces are getting shorter...and how the "visuals" are changing.

I told him i thought it was the influence of MTV music videos and the quick cuts and fancy dissolves making their way into the mainstream. He seemed to like that. I liked that he liked to listen, more than talk.

My last memory of Bill Moyers... a couple of years ago, maybe. I'm walking past the Museum of Natural History on CPW..and Bill and his wife are passing by. He immediately recognizes me ( we haven't seen each other in at least 20 years)...introduces me to his wife...and we chat for a bit. Made the rest of my day.

Bill Moyers was still every bit Bill Moyers.

RIP Bill Moyers, the exception who proved the rule. An exceptional journalist.

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25/06/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/578193-the-other-shoe-and-the-other-shoe-and-the-n

THIS VERSION INCLUDES TRUMP NEWS CONFERENCE AT NATO. War and Peace. And Pieces. And NATO. And SCOTUS. And Mass Deportation. And Mass Heat Dome.. And War and Peace Pt 2. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)

25/06/2025

It's so much more than an attack on mainstream media.

Watching Trump at NATO going after The NY Times and the networks ( including, i think, Ed O' Keefe from my CBS News alma mater)...it dawned on me what the Trump and Magaworld strategy actually is: "obliterate" public trust in any source other than Trump and Maga.

How so?

You may have noticed how Trump has steadily amped up cries of "fake news"...now suggesting that quoting from a DIA report that the Iran strikes didn't "obliterate" Iran's nuke capability...was somehow an attack on the US military hardware and patriotism of the people who carried it out....which reporters at the press
conference..including NBC's Kelly O' Donnell ...strongly disputed.

Here's the thing.

It's not a separate issue that Trump refused to brief congressional democrats...before the attack...not even the gang of 8...who are supposed to receive even higher level briefings than the rest.... Trump and company cancelled the Tuesday briefing...days after the attack..and delayed it days more.. until Friday. FRIDAY!

So, if you WANTED to check the accuracy of the DIA report on the effectiveness of the strike on Iran...there was no one else to ask.

And anyone who dares to be a source...is quickly deemed to be a "leaker"...who will be fired and/or prosecuted.

I still remember the first time Trump's pollster trotted out the notion of "alternative facts" on Meet The Press. Chuck Todd quickly pointed out that "alternative facts" aren't facts. They're lies.

The Trump goal is to discredit any source on any subject..whether it's a strike on Iran..or vaccines...or Medicaid cuts...you name it.. The goal is to make Trump and MAGA the ONLY source of information.

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24/06/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/578193-waiting-for-the-next-shoe-and-the-next-shoe-a

War and Peace. And Pieces. And NATO. And SCOTUS. And Mass Deportation. And Mass Heat Dome.. And War and Peace Pt 2. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)

22/06/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/577289-we-re-in-uncharted-territory-everywhere-sat-ni

THIS VERSION ADDS US ANNOUNCES ATTACK ON IRAN NUKE FACILITIES. War in Mideast. War in Upper Midwest. West Coast Deployments. Unfriendly Skies. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)

17/06/2025

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/577289-we-re-in-uncharted-territory-everywhere-told

War in Mideast. War in Upper Midwest. West Coast Deployments. Unfriendly Skies. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)