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*The instant the first brick was tossed at the Capitol building by the white, pro-Trump Capitol terrorists the question was repeatedly asked whether federal prosecutors will really toss the book at them. Oh yes, the prosecutors talk tough, and saber rattle the lawbreakers with promises of FBI knocks on their doors and an array of hard-nosed charges against them. This looks and sounds good but then there is Jenna Ryan, the Texas realtor who jetted into the Capitol in a private jet, brazenly brag...

*True, there was the national fury, outcry, and indignation over the Trump egged Capitol terrorist insurrection. True, there is loud demand from nearly all quarters of the general public for nabbing, jailing and tough punishment of the insurrectionists. True, more than a few including President-elect Joe Biden angrily pointed out the glaring double standard of the Capitol police in their gentle, accommodating, even tacit complicit handling of the mostly white insurrectionists versus their knock...

Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in January 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. Before that she covered a variety of

Global Streaming as part of a generalized movement online The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This followed a monopolistic wave of mergers and consolidations that included: AT&T buying Time Warner with Warner Bros. and HBO; the cable network Comcast buying the NBC network with Universal film studios and becoming pr...

The Conne rs begins its new season with the extended family jobless and unable to pay the rent, and Superstore recounts the effects of the coronavirus on its essential workers caught between a company more concerned with profits than workers’ safety and customers hoarding supplies that are in too short supply. This is the second season for Mystery Road (BBC in the UK and Acorn in the U.S.), a series based on an Aboriginal cop, Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), a character already established in tw...

A WGDR-FM DJ in the mid-1970s Some big news out of Goddard College: Its radio station, WGDR-FM, is in the process of becoming an independent entity after nearly 50 years of operation. While its possible that the physical station itself, including tens of thousands of dollars worth of broadcasting equipment, a performance area and other facilities, will remain on the Plainfield colleges campus, operations and licensure are currently being transferred ...

Grace’s Manhattan in ‘The Undoing’ “The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone. “Yes,” replied Hemingway brusquely, “they have more money.” It is difficult not to recall this exchange when watching HBO and Sky Atlantic’s David E. Kelly mini-series The Undoing, which in this year of an ever more rapid COVID-induced transfer of wealth from the lowest to the highest income brackets, thinks it is giving us, in the guise of a murder mystery, a female...

Morning News on Means TV The U.S. election has finally been secured with even Donald Trump almost tacitly acknowledging that he lost. In the aftermath, the mainstream media has now swung behind Joe Biden’s return to normalcy. The dominant media opposed Trump, not on grounds that he was a corporate bloodletter who bombed Syria, murdered Iran’s leading general, and laid waste to U.S. natural resources, all actions either applauded or tacitly condoned, but that he was an unfit and buffoonish ...