The official star of the CTA Police In Chicago, the Chicago Transit Authority best known as the CTA once had its own police department.  There were about 100 male cops that were called, CTA dicks.   They were trained and armed to deal with the muggers, sex offenders and fare jumpers that always plague public transit.  There was a slight problem.  Since they wore plain clothes and were a predominantly white group they were choice targets of roving groups of black criminals.    The CTA dicks were sending more thugs to the hereafter then any police agency in the state of Illinois including Chicago cops.  Most of these shootings were somehow magically kept out of the news!  The vast majority of the thugs killed by the CTA dicks were career felons.  Others were youngsters just beginning their lives of crime.   The bogus screams of racism and murder by cops became a PR nightmare.  So in the early 1970s they put a...

That’s a sad but realistic view of our society that tolerates ignorance despite our taxpayer funded public education.   Our massive immigration invitation to the worlds poor and illiterate combined with acceptance of their refusal to learn how to read and write has become a major crisis. Too many of our own children, particularly Blacks and Hispanics are allowed to reject the tools needed to escape a lifetime of financial dependency.   Our illiterates are doomed to only receive communication rather than creating and influencing their world.   The future is in clearly creating watchable video.  Government, businesses, news providers and entertainers must cater to our illiterate society.  Of course video communication is now superior to any other form.  Being able to create exceptional video will be the ultimate influencing skill.   We must equip our children with the tools and resources so they are not allowed to fail. The best ca...

Los Angeles, CA —I’ve worked in TV news as an investigative freelancer for nearly 30 years.  I never sought nor obtained a formal journalism education but was drafted into TV news strictly for my investigative ability.  I was lucky to be given a, second to none, on the job journalism education by many gifted reporters, producers, media lawyers  and TV news consultants.  For the last 15 years I’ve watched the slow death of news, as we knew it.   News consumers have left broadcast and print news in droves. They’ve escaped to Internet bloggers and vloggers for their information.   Left behind are the folks that simply never learned computers or even smart phones.   Because they’re technophobes they’ve become a captive audience for television and print news.   Then there are the illiterate and poor.   Few of these folks are great targets for advertisers other than drug and reverse mortgage companies. I think print is failing as society ...