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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.
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The influence of Citizens United was predicated on two assumptions: First, that facts mattered and needed to be “spun” through messaging, and second, that money was necessary to get that messaging out. But Trumpism obliterated both of those assumptions.
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 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.
Read MoreIt’s not “herd immunity,” it’s mass infection and deliberate exposure. But perhaps the term herd immunity can be instructive in one sense: A herd is a group of stupid, docile, domesticated animals. Like cattle. They’re herded into an area by those who control them and, ultimately, exploited for their milk and butchered for their meat.
Read MoreYes, people have a right to hold false opinions and a right to share those opinions, no matter how damaging they may be. But Twitter is under no obligation to validate those opinions by granting them an air of authority via a blue checkmark — and it shouldn’t. Doing so is not only highly irresponsible, it verifies something else: That Twitter isn’t about truth, it’s about popularity.
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