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About Straight to the Point



Straight to the Point is a new blog that gives my generation critical insight and analysis about pressing issues.

We rely on corporate run media to inform us about these issues, yet twenty-five minutes of our own basic research discovers websites, books, reports from governments, organizations, or universities that provide meaningful background and context. And that changes everything about what we understand as a society.

Our easy access to information gives us new responsibilities. It is now our job as well as the media to impose transparency and accountability. It’s us, not corporate media that stand to lose when important issues are obfuscated or passively accepted.

My approach in Straight to the Point is to identify, research, and analyze in an adversarial journalistic context. Challenging what were told is the basis for deeper understanding. I will be selecting trending topics with common characteristics in which inconsistent and unfounded premises are used to “explain” the prevalent issues we face everyday. The focus is to provide readers with research and analysis that exposes diverse and relevant content, data, and information.

Seems complicated right?
That’s why I will get straight to the point!
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