WHAT IS NEWS? – AT 12:24 P.M. ET:  The president and first lady visited the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor yesterday.  It was a moving visit, carried live on Fox.  CNN didn't carry it at all.  It was busy doing a pseudo-sociological analysis of the president's family history.  How exciting. 

I wish all American school children could have seen the president's and first lady's visit to the Arizona.  They would have learned something about this nation's history, and the sacrifices that are part of their history.  I am always impressed by the way Melanie Trump carries herself.  She has become an outstanding and gracious first lady, but gets no respect at all from the anti-Trump press.

In Japan, Ivanka Trump, who could have spent her entire life going to cocktail parties, gave a superb speech on the treatment of women in the workplace.  If she had been a Democrat, it would have been on every page one.  But the speech was largely ignored.  The press just can't handle a presidential daughter with a brain...if her father is a Republican.

In one of the most important political stories of the year, major Dem operative Donna Brazile revealed a few days ago that last year's Democratic presidential nomination race was rigged by the Clinton campaign to make sure no one else came close to Hillary.  Clearly, a first-class scandal.  But the story wasn't covered by any of the big-three TV networks.  One wonders what their definition of news is.  It certainly isn't the definition I learned in journalism. 

And, by the way, have you noticed the way the words "liberal" and "progressive" are being used interchangeably?  They are actually not the same thing, and have very different histories.  But there's no guidance from the journalists who give us our political news.

It's very wrong.  The country is not being served.

November 4,  2017