CANDLELIGHTS ON THE RIVER FOR PEACE AND DISARMAMENT

 Friends,

     We invite you to be part of a prayer vigil on anniversary of Nagasaki bombing with resuming our candlelights on the water, this coming Monday evening.  Spread the word to those who may be able to come.

      In Christ's peace,

            Mike & Ande McCarthy  810 9822870,  887 7000

                                                    CANDLELIGHTS ON THE RIVER

FOR PEACE AND DISARMAMENT

Monday Aug. 9th, 2021

A prayer vigil in commemoration of all those who have died in war

To commit ourselves to put an end to war

On the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

So that future generations may live in peace

Come pray for conversion from the arms race, on the banks of the St. Clair River, at the new River Walk in Port Huron {midway down the walk at the reef barriers}

{enter from the end of Griswold St. south of the YMCA, park and cross the field over to a small beach at water’s edge}

At 9:15 PM, Monday Aug. 9^th, 2021 -- For info--Mike McCarthy 982 2870

            Have we yet listened to, or even heard, the voice of the U. S. Catholic Bishops, spoken in their “The Challenge of Peace” pastoral letter of 1983?

            “After the passage of nearly four decades and a concomitant growth in our understanding of the ever growing horror of nuclear war, we must shape the climate of opinion which will make it possible for our country to express profound sorrow over the atomic bombing in 1945.  Without that sorrow, there is no possibility of finding a way to repudiate future use of nuclear weapons…”

We found none invading Iraq, but we have more than 10,000 nuclear weapons here in our homeland, and plan on making new generations of them ourselves.  We are by far the biggest arms supplier in the world.  It’s time to follow the Gospel’s advice:  “Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.”  Mt 7:5

            Unjust wars rage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Israel, Sudan, Ukraine, Libya, Syria, drug wars in Mexico, Central and Latin America …   This tragic violence should touch our consciences--our choices of vocations, jobs, our uses of time and money.  Do these support war or peace?  Do these follow the way of Caesar, or the way of Jesus?

Come, pray, help prepare the way of the Peaceable Kingdom.

            “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.” -- Martin Luther King

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, family man who wouldn’t fight in Hitler’s Wars—executed 8-9-43

Pray for us, and help us renounce nuclear war forever

JESUS PRESENT TO US IN THE EUCHARIST - AN INVITATION

 I go to daily mass frequently, because I believe we receive there the real presence of an all-merciful God.  God becomes part of us in a special intimate and incarnate way, through His Word and the Eucharist.  We all need to be unconditionally loved, and that is what is offered to us, and then expected of us in return, for us to share with each other and the wider community.  What a  blessing!  

his past week something I wrote on this was published in Our Sunday Visitor, one of the three national Catholic weekly newspapers I know of.  On the conservative/liberal continuum, it would be at center, with the National Catholic Reporter to the left, and the National Catholic Register to the right.  The sacrifice of the Mass and the reception of Holy Communion are at the center of our faith.  In a time of pandemic and political strife, they should be deep sources of our New Evangelization, spreading the Gospel outward to all in need.

Is Jesus Really There?  Yes!!!

From the July 25-31, 2021 Our Sunday Visitor

Reference - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/05/transubstantiation-eucharist-u-s-catholics/

Illumination by Kathy Brahney

To our editors ---Missing central fact to Fedex killings--the weapon of choice.

8 KILLED AT INDIANA FEDEX PLANT

So drones the headline on this 4-17-21 USA Today/Port Huron Times Herald article. Such headlines are becoming a murder mantra in the USA.

What is glaringly absent in this AP article is the identity of the specific weapon in this mass killing. The 19 year old shooter had been reported to police by his mom as a threatened “suicide by cop,” a year earlier. He did his killing of 8 people super fast—“the slayings took place in a matter of minutes.” We are told first, police “seized a gun,” later in the story called a “rifle.” Please come clean America, and identify the weapon! Any chance it was a military style large magazined assault rifle? Give the agent of destruction a name, whatever the caliber. Until we all are able to face our fascination with violently lethal weaponry, and its power grab, we’ll continue to commit societal suicide.

We must not make guns a false idol. Jesus teaches us a totally different way to combat violent powers. To be wise as serpents yet gentle as doves—the strength of unconditional love. A small part of this love is to ban assault weapons in the community at large, and limit the use of guns in our wounded country.

nd from Juhttps://amp.indystar.com/amp/7294595002?fbclid=IwAR2Bp-kwwdFVWc6UPltpceV_KNkIEKmS6Yfd2X9s9aCx9qxs79-1Cfe-epI

The truth from Justin Cannon  different newspaper  -

https://amp.indystar.com/amp/7294595002?fbclid=IwAR2Bp-kwwdFVWc6UPltpceV_KNkIEKmS6Yfd2X9s9aCx9qxs79-1Cfe-e

CAN TRUTH SAVE OUR STILL FRAGILE DEMOCRACY?

This article was something I wrote soon after the attack on  our nation's capitol January 6th.  The issues remain the same.  A well-informed public is the absolute requirement for real democracy to survive.  We need to know the truth, each voter individually and equally responsible, and that sets us free to choose a practical politics providing fundamental liberty and justice for all--inclusive, not exclusive.  And then we must recognize and cultivate our interconnectedness with the rest of the world's peoples.

From Boston University article--Jan. 7, 2021

 “Police Outnumber Protestors” was our local 1-18-21 Times Herald front page headline, with large frontpage photo of Army Humvees out in force at our Michigan state Capitol in Lansing.  Over a week before this, “Trump Backers Storm Capitol” was the small format header with business card sized photo squeezed in at the top of the 1-7-21 Times Herald.  Small potatoes the day after a physical attack on our nation’s democracy and the violent invasion of our U.S. Capitol building.  There was no frontpage story on this historic Capitol crisis.  Instead, articles on marijuana facilities, postponing of downtown’s Chilly Fest, and Family Video’s closing.

The halls of Congress were under siege January 6th, and then occupied for 5 hours by right wing rioters, spouting talk of revolution and threatening our elected representatives, in the name of our ex-president.  People died and more were injured in this desecration of the place where the work of a civil democracy should be conducted.

The serious nature of this violent act, encouraged by an ego driven President Trump, rejecting the results of an election which has been validated by all state and federal authorities *, must be recognized and resoundingly repudiated.  It deserves much more attention by local press, and the politicians of every party.  That 139 Representatives, and 8 Senators, all Republicans, still voted against accepting the decision of some of the states’ electors for soon to be President Joe Biden, after such a debacle, is a great shame.  There are solid articles and editorials appearing in the conservative Wall Street Journal that outline our problem—we are a very divided nation in which too many pay very little attention to verifiable facts in our political discussions.  [see below for references].  The Wall Street Journal, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among others, have called for President Trump to resign.  Many of the banks who’ve done business with him are now putting a stop to his credit.

What we saw on January 6, 2021 was an organized riot meant to be chaotic and intimidating.  Certainly only a segment of the 30,000 that came to protest were invaders, but all led credence to a lie—that the 2020 election was stolen.  We must all do better.  Watch, listen to and read respectable, verifiable sources of news, agencies which have editors and producers who routinely check the facts, value and investigate their stories and commentaries.  Choose more than one or two news outlets, and certainly ones with some contrasting general political perspectives.  If we are to preserve our democracy we must become better informed. 

[For good worldwide vision, I look to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal each with  divergent editorial bent, but each diligent in pursuit of facts.  The Times Herald gives me local news and perspective, with a USA Today focus on national and world news. The Drudge Report is a composite of news sources, tending conservative.  I watch and listen to NPR, Public Televisions PBS News Hour, and surf the other major TV networks news including Fox.  CBS’s 60 Minutes has merit.  Facebook and other such story spreaders are rarely to be trusted, unless they provide links to credible sources with fact checking content editors.  Electronic algorithms are no substitute for editors, providing only a bare minimum of oversight.]

Amid storming and looting the Capitol Building on January 6, pro-Trump rioters also attacked the press pool outside the building and destroyed their news gear. Photo by Michael Nigro--Getty Images

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/what-does-the-attack-on-democracy-mean-for-journalists/ 

In our Catholic Church Jan 6^th is recognized as the Feast of the Epiphany, when the Magi, kings of the world, came to pay homage to the Savior born in a stable—a humble place for the beginning of God’s birth into humanity.  This Jesus came to save us from our sins, teaching us that the truth, mercy, forgiveness, and loving our enemies is the way to eternal life.  The word epiphany means a revelation.

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/is-the-attack-on-the-us-capitol-populism/

This past Jan 6^th should also be a revealed warning.  If we continue to follow the leads of pride, greed, self-righteous hatred, and uninformed arrogance, we will ignore and miss the message of the newborn in the manger—that our true security and happiness comes from reconciling our differences, loving each other as God loves us unconditionally, despite the real difficulties of race, political party, or social class.  Blessed are the Peacemakers.   God does not discriminate, demands true justice, and is the healer of all pain. 

It’s time to put away our swords of division, conquer the pandemic, and share the good things we’ve been given with our neighbors, and the rest of the world.  Kings must bow before Truth, born in a stable.

References 

*  https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-final-days-11610062773

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-erases-his-legacy-11610061766?mod=opinion_featst_pos1&mod=djemMER_h

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-disgrace-on-capitol-hill-11609979276

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bring-the-insurrectionists-to-justice-11610065179

https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-donald-trumps-deplorables-11610406826?mod=djemMER_h

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-his-allies-set-the-stage-for-riot-well-before-january-6-11610156283?mod=cxrecs_join#cxrecs_s

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/trump-ethics-democracy-biden.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEAL OUR DEMOCRACY--MEND THE ELECTION REJECTION

 

ad, sad, that we have to watch President “in transition” Trump star as the Bamboozler in Chief sore loser in the Make Me Great Again post-election show.  God grant him the grace to exit to become an ex-president with some charitable character, perhaps even volunteering with Habitat for Humanity or at soup kitchens as others have done.  Use his billions to gainfully employ others in creative projects making life better those in need.  May his next national gig have as its theme and mission, “You’re Hired” not fired or dead from Covid – hiring to put some Americans to work for the common good, not personal profiteering forever padding one’s own wealth.

We should know by now there is danger in making a man with a mania for power and prestige our President.  May Mr. Trump be touched by the Sermon on the Mount.  This Thanksgiving I’ll be thankful for the arrival of a more presidential president—a man disposed to humility and truthfulness, difficult vital virtues for the job.  May God bless Joe Biden and make him faithful to the task.

by Yongsung-Kim

Jesus healing the man born blind from birth.

May the blind no longer lead the blind

And the rest with vision have no excuse,

But to follow the lead of truth and justice, forgiveness and mercy.

Reference

From the conservative Wall Street Journal  Nov. 25, 2020  https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-souring-on-trumps-antics-11606238991?mod=opinion_lead_pos9

Illumination by Kathy Brahney

OUR SHIP OF STATE IN TROUBLE  -  illumination by Kathy Brahney

My article, Who to Choose, to Truly Respect Life? - as appears in the online Times Herald.

https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/opinion/2020/10/23/mccarthy-respect-each-other-despite-divisions-religion-class-race-politics/3741610001/

THE ATTEMPT TO WALL OUT SUFFERING, WILL ONLY BRING MISERY TO OURSELVES

Reuters photo from the El Paso border detentions

Today I post updates to the immigration situation at our border, and how the Statue of Liberty has been turned on her head.   We close our gates and hearts to refugees at our own peril.  A gated community dies from within.  Joe Biden is not a perfect candidate, but read carefully the 8-24-20 Wall Street Journal article which contrasts his immigration stance against the current administration's policies that have appealed to racism and fear.

Joe Biden Would Likely Use a Familiar Tool—Executive Powers—to Reverse Trump Immigration Policies       https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-would-likely-use-a-familiar-toolexecutive-powersto-reverse-trump-immigration-policies-11598108400?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

And more links to articles with the details of the current immigration crisis --

Vulnerable Border Community Battles Virus on ‘A Straight Up Trajectory’ - The New https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/coronavirus-texas-rio-grande-valley.html

PBS video tells a difficult story.  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-firsthand-report-of-inhumane-conditions-at-a-migrant-childrens-detention-facility?fbclid=IwAR15mz6MT6LsZ5yb0QMAQy6_I1VyPV81uHNwoX0aOEziJ3JxTh-DZtN0iLc

Failed policies, even in their quest to be impervious.    After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared - The New York Times    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/americas/mexico-immigration-usa.html

The Mexico side of the border wall in Nogales. In remote areas, far from cities, the wall becomes a fence, or sometimes no barrier at all.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Hovering the cursor on a link turns it blue, and ready to go to the article indicated.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS--THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE TAR BABY OF ALL TIME

"The (nuclear) arms race is an utterly treacherous trap for humanity, and one which ensnares the poor to an intolerable degree.” 

- Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World,) no. 81

Fr. Richard McSorley S.J., a respected Jesuit at Georgetown University, with whom my daughter Maura worked for a while there, wrote an article in 1977 Sojourners magazine,  "It is a Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon."  Time is running out on our charge to heed his admonition, and free ourselves from these nuclear shackles, these occasions of mortal sin. There is renewed hope.

e've just past the 75^th anniversary of the only, and devastating, uses of nuclear weapons in our world’s history thus far—Aug 6^th and 9^th in Japan.  Thanks be to God, and a good number of people’s common sense.  How much longer will political power hunger continue to subject us to the danger of mass self-destruction?  I hope you will spend some time with these references, and take action to support the initiatives that at minimum reinstate the treaties that now help hold back Armageddon.  and then further, to support the 2017 UN resolution [Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons] demands, ban all nuclear weapons, before resumed use ends life as we know it.  The Covid 19 pandemic is bad.  Nuclear war would be so much worse. 

A Pope Francis Holy Card

Pray and Act   --  Ora et Labora

What we can do to make a more peace filled future

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, won the Noble Peace Prize in 2017.

https://www.icanw.org/  -- Join them..

A film to promote discussion - The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons - {submitted by Marty         Habalewsky of our Blue Water Pax Christi group}

References

https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis/article/real-lessons-trinity-and-hiroshima

A book review on this spiritual problem - https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/risk-cross-reckons-our-nuclear-danger

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-75th-anniversary.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html

A video of Pope Francis' message that needs to be taken to heart, esp. here in the USA

Pope in Hiroshima: nuclear weapons are immoral  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pChlH2SH2gw&feature=emb_rel_end

Current global status of UN nations' support for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons --two thirds. -- counting yet none of the world's nuclear weapons possessors.  

Don't let the world backslide on nuclear disarmament as our current administration intends - From the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - Action Alert: Tell Your Members of Congress to Extend New START and Reduce the Nuclear Threat!

https://www.votervoice.net/USCCB/campaigns/75604/res

Illumination by Kathy Brahney

Hovering cursor on grey texts reveals links for click

Commemorate the 75 Years Since Nuclear Attacks: Tell Congress to Support Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Commemorate the 75 Years Since Nuclear Attacks: Tell Congress to Support Nuclear Nonproliferation.

FRENCH COUNTRY PRIEST--DESERTED WAR

When I was in 8^th grade thinking of becoming a priest, I read a short book on the life of St. John Vianney, the Cure of Ars.  He was a simple parish priest in France, and a child at the time of the French revolution, who was a mediocre preacher, yet sought out by a multitude of pilgrims to his remote parish, for his compassion and advice in the confessional, and as a counselor.  He’d spend 12-16 hours a day giving absolution. 

That was all I knew of him, a good solid unassuming model for the priesthood.  Today I’ve learned on his feast day, that he was also a conscientious objector to war.  This wasn’t mentioned in the book, or any of the other articles I’ve read on him through the years.  Our Sunday Visitor [a national Catholic publication I’ve come to respect for its balance] has a short note on him as their saint of this week:  “His studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the army to fight in the Napoleonic Wars.  Deserting, he returned home and when to Lyons seminary.”

There are so many saints who’ve chosen to follow the way of Jesus out of the fog of war, “Put away the sword.”  We’re seldom told the full measure of their stories.  The duty of defending the countries of the world is redeemed by our God who comes to earth saving us by dying on a cross, rising  beyond all worldly kingdoms, defeating death by loving and forgiving the enemy.  Death is not the end.  Do you believe?  A young man, who was to become a small town priest in war torn France, visited by multitudes for his straight forward wisdom, knew the answer.

 More recent conscientious objectors

Jane Kopecky, author or "World War II Conscientious Objectors Germfask, Michigan, The Alcatraz Camp", next to the Camp Germfask CCC camp sign. (Photo: Susanne Barr

A recent article in Times Herald, and Detroit Free Press tells of a little known camp in the U.P. for conscientious objectors in WWII—and mentions there were 151 of these work camps throughout the country, with some 12,000 C.O.s interned.  

Sol Gadol, New York, hauls fuel wood into one of the buildings at the camp- Wood cutting was one of the important jobs at the camp- Photo Escanaba Daily Press handout.

Because of good example and encouragement by many, including a priest in a rural parish with farmers and migrant farmworkers, I became a C.O. during the Vietnam War. 

References

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-john-vianney/   This is the usual biography, made more complete by the Our Sunday Visitor entry in their Aug. 2-8, 2020 issue.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/07/12/germfask-michigan-american-siberia-world-war-2/5168666002/

 

DIALOGUE ON TRUTH, IN A TIME OF FAKE NEWS

From Columbia Journalism Review

A dialogue continued from my article two weeks ago on the problems of discerning truth in the media, FOURTH OF JULY ADVISORY—BEWARE THE FATHER OF ALL LIES.  It came from a long-time friend at our local St. Mary parish who often takes the time to respond to my messages.  Jim is a conservative, competent, compassionate businessman who has travelled widely.  Our viewpoints are often different, but our discussions remain thoughtful and respectful.  That’s a blessing.

Mike,

I see you’ve started writing a bit of comedy.

“If good reliable sources of news can be regularly discredited, then we are hostages to the political leadership.”

Haha, “good reliable sources of news”. Funny stuff.

Name one...

Your friend,

Jim

Jim,

WSJ, the AP, and NYT, and NPR on the airwaves.  They have journalistic standards and editors who guard the store in terms of reliable, confirmed stories.  Respectable journalism does exist in a few national and local newspapers.  None are absolutely infallible, but these, and others like the San Jose Mercury News, have good editors, and a very good record.  These all contrast the liberal and conservative perspectives in search of the truth. If we have no trustworthy news, we have no democracy.

      Your friend,

              Mike

Mike,

I do not trust much that comes from any of the organizations you name, especially the NY Times (the “old gray lady” died decades ago) , and I do not know the San Jose Mercury News. In fact, I don’t trust much of anything that is reported in the media today, and that includes Fox News if you’re wondering.

They’re all in the same boat. It’s all entertainment and sensationalism.

They should not have to balance the liberal and conservative views. In news reporting there should NOT be any liberal or conservative views. It is news. It is facts. They should be reporting the facts. Facts and truth do not have a liberal or conservative bent to it. It is what it is. Tell us what happened and only tell us what happened. Nothing more and nothing less. Show us the pictures and the video and let us decide what we want to do with that information. Let the viewer decide what to think of it.

Do not try and tell me your opinion or your side of the issue. Get rid of these so-called “panels of experts” (I love the word “expert”. It tells me that the person is nothing more than an “ex-spurt” if you know what I mean) and just tell us what is happening in the world without a slant right or left.

Journalism is dead in this country and has been for years. They all want to be the next Woodward and Bernstein. So called journalists today are all about trying to catch someone doing something wrong and to be the “first” to get the story told. Even if that story is untrue or they don’t know all the facts. It is more important to be first than to be correct. No one reports the news anymore, they try to invent it.

It is unfortunate as the country does need a news source (I agree with you there) and none exist at the moment. All of today’s media outlets are nothing more than vendors selling a product. Every one of them. And do you know what that product is? It is you and me. We are the product. We are sold by the networks to advertisers when they show them their ratings. They tell them they have “X” number of millions of viewers or listeners and that they should advertise on their network. We are the product, the media is the vendor, and the advertiser is the customer. So they try to make the news as sensational as possible in order to raise their viewership numbers and sell their air time to the advertisers.

What a person has to do today is read and watch many sources and decide for themselves what makes sense. Do not blindly listen and believe. Be a skeptic and dig further. And use what is in such short supply today…. common sense. If a story seems unreal or unlikely then it probably is. I try to do that but at times I have to step back from any news before it drives me crazy.

Your friend,

Jim

Jim,

     I don't have quite the negative view that you have on the character of many of our reporters and news agencies, but agree with your premise and sentiment, and commitment to do our own diligent search for the facts.  I've read your note here just after having written my latest web article which I think you'll appreciate.  Would you agree to my adding your words here to my article as a guest commentator of often different opinions than my own?

      Your friend,

             Mike

Jim agrees to my publishing our back and forth on this issue, and, after his read of my second article on the subject of the media, THE TRUTH THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH?, responded—

Well written, Mike. 

Jim

May all of us keep striving to reach some common ground on the problems that confront our country and world.  Grounded in the truth, firm yet forgiving, so help us God.

 

Jesus before Pilate - "What is Truth?"

THE TRUTH THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH?

From the Pew Research Center website - 1-17-20

Discerning truth in our times of prolific fragmented media can be very difficult.  In a drawn out discussion with my nephew this past weekend, we went back and forth on whether Fox News commentators, or NYT and WSJ editors, were to be trusted for the facts.  He’s a committed young evangelical pastor in South Florida who believes very much in Jesus, and also that President Trump is the best choice to lead our country.  Our faith in God is the same, the way in which God would have us direct our political lives starkly different, as are our sources of information.

t is problematic for us people of faith to confront parts of our traditions, and secular histories, that are myth, or misdirections of true faith in a merciful nonviolent God of unconditional love.  God’s truth can open the way.  The way of Jesus is not the way of the world.  We are all caught between this world or Jesus ways in countless little decisions we face each day.  We can help discover ever more of God’s love and mercy in our lives, or we can try to conquer and overwhelm truth playing into the hands of evil means because we think our goals, personal or as a country, are so important.

 

The mass media, relying on seductive fleeting audiovisual messages that you must follow at their speed with little time for reflection, has brought us to a dangerous juncture.  Print media is being abandoned.  Yet when you read, you can much better compare and substantiate the opinion you are forming and its factual basis.  Words have to stay there in front of you, ready while you determine their worth. 

Video seeing and hearing on an electronic screen is not believing.  The truth required for belief takes much deeper thought, work and prayer.  Consider all the alternatives.  Take time to make up your mind and heart.  Then may we be given the courage to act positively on our decisions.

We need to be well informed, researching and comparing sources, listening to and contrasting information presented by the other sides on issues.  Wise as serpents gentle as doves.  Sheep of responsibility, following the Good Shepherd, and not the blind purveyors of the latest powerful political product line.

Op-ed on media bias by the Columbia Journalism Review

https://www.cjr.org/opinion/bias-journalism.php

From CJR also, article on TV commentator affiliation disclosure

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/state-of-the-union-commentators.php

Illumination by Kathy Brahney