Editorials

NPR’s sanitizing of Trump’s Milwaukee rally shows how he’s broken the media

I tried to capture some of the speech’s disconcerting oddness in my write-up of the event. In many ways, the remarks the president made were typical of him. And that provides the media with a challenge: Describing Trump as he really is can make it seem as if a report is “anti-Trump” and that the reporter is trying to make the president look foolish.

But for media outlets that view themselves as above taking sides, attempts to provide a sober, “balanced” look at presidential speeches often end up normalizing things that are decidedly not normal. MORE

Environment

One of world’s largest fish just went extinct

China isn’t the only nation at risk of losing its biodiversity. An explosive United Nations report released this past May found that up to a million species are at risk of extinction because of human activities. About 66% of the global marine environment has been significantly altered by humans, and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened, the report said. MORE

Free Chat Friday

Free Chat Friday, Week 3

Word of the Day: Wollemi—an Australian aboriginal word meaning “watch out, look around you”. Why Wollemi, you may ask? Because by some miracle, the Wollemi Pines, the oldest tree species (it’s been around 65 million years) was MORE