Media Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/media/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 07 May 2022 13:00:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Media Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/media/ 32 32 America Magazine’s Strange View of Elon Musk https://mind-at-work.com/america-magazines-strange-view-of-elon-musk/ Sat, 07 May 2022 13:00:13 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4894 When the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, bought Twitter, conservatives expressed hope, the mainstream media were apoplectic, and the staff of America Magazine offered a roundtable discussion addressing the question, “Should Catholics Be Part of Elon Musk’s Twitter?” The senior contributor was Associate Editor Jim McDermott, a Jesuit priest educated at Marquette, Harvard, Weston School [...]

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]]> Are “Your” Opinions Really Yours? https://mind-at-work.com/are-your-opinions-really-yours/ Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:28:10 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4702 Some time ago I asked a friend what she thought of the 3000 migrants who for several days had been moving in a caravan toward our southern border. She replied, “Caravan of migrants? I haven’t heard anything about that.” I then said, “I don’t know what network you watch, but it can’t be Fox because [...]

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]]> The Media Are Ignoring This Book https://mind-at-work.com/the-media-are-ignoring-this-book/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:31:33 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3774 The only way to cast an informed vote for political candidates is to become familiar with their qualifications for office. Such information is important for any election, but especially so for a presidential election. It permits voters to base their judgment on facts about the various candidates’ strengths and weaknesses, accomplishments and failures, rather than [...]

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]]> “Dilly Dilly,” More Than Silly https://mind-at-work.com/2608-2/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:39:45 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2608 “Dilly Dilly” is certainly silly. A medieval king demanding that his subjects pay homage with cases of Bud Light, leading them in that strange toast and then, more ominously, having a subject who brings him aged whiskey dragged off, presumably to his execution. Or a small band of thirsty medieval peasants armed with little more [...]

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]]> Egotism and the Abuse of Discourse https://mind-at-work.com/egotism-and-the-abuse-of-discourse/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:30:11 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2578 NBA stars Lebron James and Kevin Durant did an ESPN podcast. James opined that Trump “doesn’t understand the people and really don’t [sic] give a #X%@# about the people.” Durant wrestled with a hardwood metaphor: “our country is not ran [sic] by a great coach.” Laura Ingraham responded that a lot of young people look [...]

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