The president is insane.

The useful part

That is a news story, but the corporate media, for reasons that are not entirely clear, cannot treat it as such. Times can publish what it labels a "guest essay" which exhaustively and irrefutably makes that case, but they can't state what is obviously true in a news story for which they take editorial responsibility. Some guest talking heads on MSNOW can say it, but even their anchors cannot.

How it works

• By the way, I no longer watch CBS news, nor any other of the nightly network news programs, nor do I watch the news on their local affiliate which I used to do every day.
• If a guest talking head on CNN is willing to say it, they have to put them up against someone who will deny it.
• Certainly they have nothing to gain, as far as I can tell, by ignoring what is by far the most important news story of the day.
• Yes, they would anger some viewers if they said it, by they are angering far more of their viewers by not saying it.
• I have seen no coverage in any news column or on any web page of the major media outlets of this event.

What to take from it

Given the immense dangers facing humanity right now, which the insane president has largely caused and is only compounding, one might think that the risks to the business environment would trouble the plutocratic owners of the media.

Details worth keeping

So if it's ratings they're worried about, they aren't very smart.