A wry and pointed take on politics, media and society from Bob Garfield.
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Meditation on a Second Act
Rice-a-Phony
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Incredibly, none of this is invented. Believe us, we checked.]
My friends, how do you know me?
That is, of course, a rhetorical question. You know me as the author of Bedfellows, the comic mob thriller that w...
Tuesday Never Comes
J. Wellington Wimpy
“When the war is over? Oh, it’s coming down. It’s gonna come down like a rock.”
– Donald J. Trump on June 10, 2026, speaking about inflation
If only you were a bit older, you’d understand the absurdity of it all. You’...
The Nose Hair Storm
Editor’s note: This is the final post in a three-part series, “Media Literacy 3.0,” examining how radically consumer, publisher and advertiser behavior has devolved in the downward Chaos Scenario spiral of the news industry. The second inst...
Defining News Down
This might be the face of the first Jewish presidency.
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a three-part series, “Media Literacy 3.0,” examining how radically consumer, publisher and advertiser behavior has devolved in the downward Ch...
Escape to Planet X
In 1977, two Boeing 747 airliners collided on the runway of Tenerife Los Rodeos Airport, resulting in the death of 583 people.
Obviously, it’s all very bad. Climate change, bioterrorism, Trump, Putin, Andrew Tate, Gal Gadot, microplastics,...
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Bob hosts Bully Pulpit after 12 years with NPR and 20 co-hosting On the Media. He’s hosted Audible’s The Genius Dialogues and Slate’s Lexicon Valley. Also: TV analyst for three networks, columnist for three major newspapers and author of 6 books.
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