Category: News & Media

Living In America

November 3, 2025 by • Education, Financial, History, Law, News, News & Media, Politics, Society, Television • 0 Comments

FIGHTING APATHY TOWARDS THE $38 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT

“This is bizarre!”

I know it looks like I’ve discarded my recent plans in using certain quotes in regards to a certain fictional character to fight against apathy towards the national debt. 

I know it looks that way.  Well, in truth, I haven’t discarded those plans, but I am making it less obvious I’ll be using those quotes.  Though those quotes will be hidden to my readers, they will be a guide for myself in many of the topics related in my fight against apathy towards this serious & growing problem.

I have a reason for why I’ve decided to do it this way.

A Print Media’s Tribute Edition…

October 19, 2025 by • Entertainment, News & Media, Society, Television • 0 Comments

…On Robert Redford

FROM pg 58…

Redford examined the country’s values in 1999’s Quiz Show, a drama starring Ralph Fiennes based on a real-life television scandal in the 1950s.  The film earned four Oscar nominations, including best picture and best director.  “I thought it was interesting to comment on how the public gets completely taken advantage of by the lies that get told to them,” Redford told Entertainment Weekly.

Kind of interesting, isn’t it?…   “1999’s Quiz Show”…  “the lies that get told to them” …Kind of interesting.

Anyway, I guess to Robert Redford then, Quiz Show was about the world’s biggest liar.  To me, Quiz Show is about the word’s biggest social contagion.  We’re probably both right.

The Late 1960’s/Early 1970’s

March 3, 2025 by • Books, Crime, Entertainment, Financial, History, Law, News, News & Media, Politics, Religion, Self-Improvement, Society, Sports, Success, Television • 0 Comments

  • Americans walking on the moon.
  • America losing a war.
  • America’s only president who would be forced to resign winning presidential elections.
  • Historical events that would play a major role in Americans turning on their presidents who had won their last elections in landslides.
  • Construction of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City.
  • New York City plagued with various strikes by public employees.
  • New freedoms for Hollywood thanks to the MPAA’s new classification system.
  • Martin Scorsese begins his film career as a director.
  • Early development for Hollywood’s disastrous disaster movies (from Airport to The Towering Inferno).
  • The American movie industry struggling for economic survival.
  • The movie industry’s future king working in television.
  • Construction of the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, the world’s most visited theme park.
  • The first seven years of the Superbowl, an annual sporting event that has since dominated the record books for the “All-Time Most Watched TV Programs”.
  • Historic Middle East conflicts of the 20th Century between Israel and the Arab world.
  • Nixon’s vice-president and legal problems with his income taxes.
  • The birth of a new social movement.
  • William Peter Blatty heading towards winning an Oscar.
  • Pete Maravich lighting up college basketball’s record books.
  • Coach John Wooden leading UCLA to seven consecutive NCAA tournament championships.
  • The first printing of two published books from Christian author Og Mandino containing The Ten Great Scrolls.
  • And finally, Mario Puzo creating a cultural phenomena with “The Godfather”.