Tag Archives: News and Media

Media: Crossfire Hurricane

Posted on October 11, 2020 by George Putnam

An occasional theme of this blog is: can we trust the media to tell us about the world in an accurate and balanced way? The example in this post involves presidential elections. All news sources have biases. The takeaway from … Continue reading →

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Unmasking the cult of Stalin

Posted on August 29, 2020 by George Putnam

Mr. Jones is a “must see” movie, as I wrote in Why you should watch “Mr. Jones”. A comment on that post led me to this article at Ukraine Today about a panel discussion with the writer and director of … Continue reading →

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Why you should watch “Mr. Jones”

Posted on August 26, 2020 by George Putnam

I recommend the movie Mr. Jones, which has generated considerable buzz on the Internet this summer. At the end of this post I list 13 online commentaries about it that I have noticed. This 2019 movie became available on Amazon … Continue reading →

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The Holodomor

Posted on August 22, 2020 by George Putnam

The Holodomor was a catastrophic man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. At the time, Ukraine was part of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. Millions of people died in what Ukraine and several other countries now consider a genocide. Not widely known … Continue reading →

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Podcast Recommendation

Posted on May 7, 2020 by George Putnam

Want to learn more about diseases such as COVID-19? I recommend This Podcast Will Kill You by Erin Welsh, PhD and Erin Allmann Updyke, PhD. Drs. Erin and Erin are disease ecologists and epidemiologists. They discuss the biology, history, and … Continue reading →

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Where do you get news?

Posted on April 1, 2020 by George Putnam

Over on my other blog, The Switchel Traveler, I have been posting about the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging in the world. (Click here for all posts on that blog about that topic.) My question for this post: Where do you … Continue reading →

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A Wikipedia Story

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Putnam

Wikipedia is a marvelous resource. This online encyclopedia contains vast amounts of information. It is free and it is available without leaving home. By comparison, the encyclopedias of my youth contained puny amounts of information. They were expensive, and therefore … Continue reading →

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Holocaust Scholarship

Posted on January 14, 2018 by George Putnam

The following recent news release is about Holocaust scholarship at the University of Vermont (UVM): Two UVM scholars earn fellowships at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum This is good news. Congratulations to UVM, Associate Professor Susanna Schrafstetter, and Professor Alan Steinweis. … Continue reading →

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Where do you get news?

Posted on February 9, 2017 by George Putnam

The world of news is changing. No longer do the three TV networks of CBS, NBC and ABC dominate broadcast news. Print newspapers are shrinking or going out of business. News websites and blogs are ubiquitous, but reliable unbiased news seems … Continue reading →

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