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Is the corporate media going to continue to choose not to notice?

Since every accusation made by Trump is sheer projection, what other conclusion can we raw from his smears against Biden dad and son?

Her glorious voice and spirit are forever inspiring.

I generally don’t read specialized or academic music publications–and there are fewer and fewer of them, vide the demise of Opera News–and was entirely unaware that Australian director Wayne Groom had released in 2021 a documentary entitled “Marjorie Lawrence: The World at Her Feet.” I’d love to see it. The trailer contains incredible news footage of her.

The fact that, even with a human interest angle like Lawrence’s polio, apparently nothing has appeared in the corporate media about this film is yet another indictment of the cultural impoverishment of our media and our society itself.  Maybe I’m beating a dead horse, but this is something I’m confronted with every day.

Her family issued this notice in memoriam:

Nora White Shattuck, of Lincoln Vermont, passed away on July 7, 2023, Middlebury, Vermont at   the age of 97 surrounded by family.
Born August 25, 1925 in Ottawa Canada, Nora was the fourth of five children of John Herbert White and Eileen Simpson. The family homestead was a 1000-acre property on the banks of the Ottawa River with horses, sheep, orchards and crops where many adventures were had involving treacherous toboggin jumps, riding their mischievous Welch pony Baby and skijoring with their shepherd Mountie. Nora started ballet classes in Ottawa at the age of five and at age 16 traveled to New York City to attend the American School of Ballet. By 1942 she was on Broadway dancing “Rosalinda” for the New York City Opera Company and from 1943 to 1947 she danced in the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and toured throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. After studying ballet in Paris, Nora returned to the US and married author and professor Roger W. Shattuck in 1949. Over the next 50 years Nora founded the Cambridge School of Ballet and Austin Ballet Theatre and taught ballet and modern dance at the University of Texas, University of Virginia, Boston University, in the Ivory Coast, France, and Lincoln, Vermont.
In addition to her accomplishments in dance, Nora cherished her home and community in
Lincoln. She chaired the PTA, was treasurer of Lincoln Sports, volunteered at the Lincoln
Library and organized community square dances, ballet classes and performances at Burnham Hall. She enjoyed horseback riding, tending her large vegetable and flower gardens, cooking for family gatherings, swimming in the pond and surveying the view of the Green Mountains and fields from the “cabin”. Nora shared these simple pleasures with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Nora Shattuck is survived by her son Marc, daughters Patricia and Eileen, six grandchildren, Ruth, Heather, Charles, Killian, Jasper and Troy and six great-grandchildren Joseph, Nora, Rose, Lincoln, Joselyn and Elliot. Nora was predeceased by her eldest daughter, Tari Elizabeth Shattuck, in 1993 and her husband Roger Shattuck in 2005.

For those who wish, donations in her honor may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice (P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753 www.achhh.org) or Lincoln Sports (Lincoln SportsInc, c/o Andy Soares White, 3237 Ripton Road, Lincoln, VT 05443).

Even Trump’s complicit attorneys looked uncomfortable as they were forced to windowdress his senile & completely factitious grandstanding at the courthouse.

I believe in the family romance theory of history. We should know the psychological etiology that has made these damaged, nihilistic individuals so rabidly determined to eviscerate our country.

Trump’s face is a relief map of insanity and ruin.  And that face will be an icon of the country at large should he again become president.

Mary Trump is, of course, a trained psychologist, and she’s able to recognize the dynamic propelling Trump’s cult to galvanize around his moral inferiority even to many of the cult members themselves: “They don’t want a leader to look up to; they want somebody on their level, equal to or (preferably) beneath them. ”

She analyzes on her Substack site the corporate media’s catastrophic fails motivated by their need to induce suspense by artificially weighing the scale, minimizing Trump’s beyond-the-pale incitement of treasonous violence.

Their refusal to call out Trump’s death threats against Gen. Milley, emerge from their “need to keep the race between Pres. Biden and Donald close. In order to do that, they obsess about Biden’s age without acknowledging his fitness and accomplishments while normalizing Donald as the Republican front-runner while failing to mention that he’s only three years younger in addition to being a cognitively impaired, fraudulent traitor to the United States.”

That is the governing philosophy, the civil credo powering the Republicans.

Historian Lawrence Glickman tweets:

“A central fact is that, in the midst of a UAW strike, Trump spoke last night at a nonunion factory. Yet the @nytimes mentions this only at the end of the 6th paragraph and the @washingtonpost brings it up in only the 19th paragraph. These are failures of framing.”

I know how fraught journalism is at the moment. I want great newspapers like these to survive. But they have got to rethink the way they keep trying to normalize Trump, in the name of—what?

Perhaps that would indeed be one key to their survival.