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Author: Bill Baker
“Wisdom Keepers” explores the timeless questions of who we are and where we are going. These fundamental questions feel especially urgent in the current context of rapid scientific innovation, thorny moral quandries and political unrest. “Wisdom Keepers,” on PBS, offers you a chance rarely found in our fast-paced lives for deep introspection through piercing interviews […]
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Greenland on the Rocks
On importing the purest ice in the world to Manhattan.
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The Last Paycheck
The “tough guy” manager may win for the short term, but never for the long haul.
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Baker’s Dozen
The media stories that shaped the month, from a shakeup at MSNBC to a Washington Post op-ed section focused on free markets.
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January’s Baker’s Dozen
Trump sues CBS, Mark Thompson shakes up CNN and more.
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2024 in Review
A special Baker’s Dozen on Bluesky rising, cable news waning, editorial boards chickening out and more.
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Public Media’s Uneasy Domain
A potentially huge boon to struggling local public stations could rest in nostalgia.
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How Trump Leveraged Passive News Audience
For another look at my opinion piece and reflections on the “ambient news” that helped shape the 2024 election, head to Hearst’s CT Insider, which has published this and previous columns of mine.
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Time and Life
The Daylight-Saving Time change we are going through this week is a nonscientific enacted political change that benefits no one. It may even harm some people.
