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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
Filtering by Tag: fake news
People have marveled how so many working-class Americans relate to a millionaire playboy. But that’s not what they relate to. They relate to his false victimhood and his desire to blow up a system they see as unfair... to them. Much of their victimhood is a figment of their imagination, but it serves a purpose. It’s a rationalization that gives them an excuse to spread more chaos.
Read MoreThose fixated on loyalty at the expense of facts obsess night and day on a single objective: canceling the enemy, by hashtag, by accusation, or if that doesn’t work, by more violent means. The impulse to “cancel” someone can’t get more brazen than QAnon lady rep Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
Read MoreIn a desperate attempt to retain their audience, newspapers and broadcast networks changed their mission. Instead of simply reporting the facts, they started interviewing spin doctors on both sides of the political fence. In short, they replaced devotion to the truth with a quest for balance as their prime directive.
Read More“(Labeling everything as “Breaking News” is) kind of like going to a restaurant that advertises freshly baked bread, but only bakes it once a week — because that’s how often a new shipment of dough arrives — and simply reheats it for unsuspecting customers who walk in.”
Read MoreNew conquests require new enemies, and Trump can’t help but make them. … But these external enemies, whether they’re Democrats or “fake news media” or Never Trumpers, are really proxies in an internal war against himself that he can’t admit he’s fighting.
Read MoreFranklin D. Roosevelt took to the airwaves on Dec. 8, 1941, to tell us we were at war. But imagine he didn’t announce that Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Imagine that, instead, he said there had been only a “minor disturbance in the Pacific,” that it was “nothing to worry about,” and that the problem would “just go away.” This is how Donald Trump has approached the COVID crisis.
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