media Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/media/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:58:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Compassion in Social Media https://smthingscount.com/2020/08/05/compassion-in-social-media/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 16:05:54 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9550 People are frustrated by virus restrictions and political warfare. We’re so tied up in knots that some things that we’d normally take in stride become

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]]> We Know Not What We Say https://smthingscount.com/2020/06/29/we-know-not-what-we-say/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:11:35 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9299 We try not to be racist, and we may not accept the concept of white privilege. But sometimes we say things that are racist and

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]]> Soc(ratese) it to Me https://smthingscount.com/2019/05/09/socratese-it-to-me/ Thu, 09 May 2019 15:48:14 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8031 Today’s Thursday Thought goes back hundreds of years, to Socrates, but is possibly even more relevant in today’s social-media-sharing environment. Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what

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]]> Privacy and the Smoking Gun https://smthingscount.com/2018/03/23/privacy-and-the-smoking-gun/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:50:16 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6763 I was so anxious to give you the information about Facebook yesterday, that I  forgot to post a “Thursday Thought” quote.  So I’ll do it

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]]> A Great Huge Nightmarish Disaster https://smthingscount.com/2017/03/28/a-great-huge-nightmarish-disaster/ https://smthingscount.com/2017/03/28/a-great-huge-nightmarish-disaster/#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:14:58 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5761 Print and broadcast media have picked it up, and politicians continually sprinkle their verbiage with it.  I’m talking about Trumpese.  Sigh.  It brings out the

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]]> https://smthingscount.com/2017/03/28/a-great-huge-nightmarish-disaster/feed/ 2 Pity Poor Kellyanne Conway https://smthingscount.com/2017/02/06/pity-poor-kellyanne-conway/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:01:50 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5586 I’m starting to feel sorry for Kellyanne Conway.  She keeps mis-speaking and having to defend what she thought President Trump meant by what he said.

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]]> Manipulating Guilt and Innocence https://smthingscount.com/2014/12/01/manipulating-guilt-and-innocence/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:02:31 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=3315 Think about who you would believe.  First, there’s a person whose TV and newspaper pictures show in various scenes: in a graduation gown, with earphones

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