The news media are far less respected today than they were in forty years ago. In 1972, Gallup first asked the question: “In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media . . . when it comes to reporting the…
The reason I haven't written my blog for more than a year is that I was trying to put plenty of distance between my last post about gambling and returning to the fold on other subjects, so it might seem perverse that I am back…