By Phil Riske, managing editor
We’re told on this Sunday morning five children and three adults were found slain in a Houston home.
And we’re still hearing and talking about Donald Trump’s bloody battle with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, not to mention the GOP faceoff Thursday night broke television viewership records for political debates.
Meanwhile, questions still surround Hillary Clinton’s e-mails when she was secretary of state.
Millions last week watched Jon Stewart’s final “The Daily Show,” and we were told Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Brown’s death was allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend.
Daily, especially in Chicago, we read about black-on-black murders. Focus in 2015, moreover, has been on the shootings of black citizens by white police and a self-proclaimed, 21-year-old white racist.
The sports world is full of headlines as normally poor-record baseball teams are making a run for the playoffs, Arizona’s Randy Johnson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and his Diamondbacks No. 51 was retired last night at Chase Field. “Deflategate” continues to dominate NFL news during summer training camps.
A year after the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370, wreckage evidence found on a beach on the east coast of the Indian Ocean tells us what we already knew—the plane went into the ocean — and what we still don’t know — why?
We’re at war with ISIS, and the fate of a deal with Iran over further development of a nuclear weapon is in the hands of our favorite government entity, the Congress of the United States.
Newspapers continue to lose revenue, and accusations of bias against television news are rising. Social media thrives as, shall we say, the 5th Estate.
Yes, folks, the business we’re all in is the news business.
