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Thank You: 2019’s Most Popular Post

For the next two weeks –until everyone’s back from the holidays or recovered from year-end exhaustion– we’ll re-run some of 2019’s most popular Agitator posts. This year’s most popular and comment-provoking entry was titled (or mis-titled) Thanks, But No Thanks. The post reported on a study of thank you calls to 500,000 public broadcasting donors […]

Learn More December 26, 2019

We Suggest You Have A Merry Christmas

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Learn More December 25, 2019

Local Man Impeached

Despite the breathless ranting and record audiences of the cable news networks and some dynamite investigative reporting by major news organizations this year was a particularly brutal one for local news operations, especially newspapers. Print revenue was down nearly 20%. All of us should be particularly concerned about the plight of local newspapers. They’re a […]

Learn More December 23, 2019

Baby Jesus In A Cage

I suspect that many folks, myself included, view Christmas in their minds– not the one unfolding at the mall — as a quiet, welcome break from the increasingly shrill and combative world of everyday. We turn down the news, turn up the Christmas music and attempt to adhere to the holiday’s essential meaning: Hope. Peace. […]

Learn More December 20, 2019

Duct Tape and Baling Wire

There are some movie scenes for which I’m an absolute sucker in almost any movie: The moment where it looks like the con has failed… but wait! The detective gathers everyone in a room and explains what really happened A good translation gag (e.g., the translator says something different from what the person actually said; […]

Learn More December 18, 2019

Small Change…Big Tears…Great Advice

Month after month the folks at NextAfter treat us –without charge — to their online library of testing treasures. These are folks in quest of answers to the fundamental question: Why do people give? In fact, they’re obsessed with finding the answer in the digital world. Their Research Library contains, in their words, “the results […]

Learn More December 16, 2019