I took a lot of heat (and received plenty of compliments) from my last column titled “The lost art of the follow-up question.” The heat wasn’t from the topic, but rather the tone. For some reason, my tone had people telling me, “This is why our country is so divided.” It’s as if I was […]
Is it just me, or have members of the mainstream media — read Democratic party spokespeople — become mouthpieces spouting talking points word for word as they’re told? I know we all know MSM leans well to the left, but it’s become the Mortimer Snerd to the Charlie McCarthy Democrats. I didn’t say Edgar Bergen, […]
And chances are, the change will be to the advantage of both the writer of said headline and the source. There is no better PR example to relate this to than all the COVID-19 stories we read every day. The one consistent COVID thread I keep hearing is “COVID did this to you” or “COVID […]
But in this day and age, much of PR has become plausible repudiation. How’s that, Craig? Well, considering I’m surrounded by it daily in my job, I see this in many ways and forms every time I open my inbox. Whether it’s by commission, omission or flat out diversion, it happens all the time. Back […]
Every day we hear story after story about what our all-caring government at all levels does for people. The biggest perception problem is we’ve had an everyday, good-news kind of story (along with end-times stories) for more than a year since the “15 days to slow the spread” that oddly never garnered one good news […]
Has there ever been a more overused word in government than “underfunded?” Social Security? Underfunded, Medicare and Medicaid? Underfunded. Education? Underfunded. Infrastructure? Underfunded. Welfare? Underfunded. IRS? Underfunded. Postal Service? Underfunded. Pick your federal government agency? Underfunded. Defense …? Wait a tick. The ONLY one OVERFUNDED is the only one that’s constitutional. But that’s how socialists […]
And yes. It’s a big difference. This doesn’t have to be a diatribe about all the “wokeness” going around in our lives. Hell, we get bombarded daily by news coverage from around our country and world, executive order after order from the unconscious puppet in the White House, from the press release accounts of […]
Perhaps the worst word created in history is “lawmaker” — which has come to replace the term “elected representative” in our republic. I say this because of every vote I’ve ever cast, none of them have been to put someone in a position to create more laws. God knows, I know and you know we […]
That’s because at the Business Times, we don’t endorse candidates. I prefer it that way because if you endorse someone, especially someone who’s a friend or more than an acquaintance, you’ll tend to provide more favorable coverage to said candidate — even more so if they’re elected. It’s also why you’ll never see a “vote […]
Oh, you’ve never heard about the Grand Valley Task Force? Well, please allow me to give you a couple of biased opinions about it. I’ll start with its own from Facebook: “Our mission: Finding just and equitable solutions for all by shining a light on implicit, explicit and systemic bias in our community.” Now […]