by Michael Leppert | Mar 15, 2023 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
The competition for trust and credibility in the press is far from new. This struggle dates back to at least the late 1800’s when the “yellow journalism” battle between moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst dominated the New York media market. Both were...
by Michael Leppert | Nov 15, 2019 | Politics/Government
Much of America learned the term “quid pro quo” from Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling in the 1991 classic movie “Silence of the Lambs.” The psycho serial killer, Lecter, was willing to trade information about another killer with FBI Agent...
by Michael Leppert | Mar 30, 2018 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
“Lingchi” was a brutal Chinese method of execution that was practiced from around 900 AD until 1905 when it was outlawed there. Its barbaric history is detailed in the 2008 book, “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” written by three French and Canadian professors, Timothy...
