Smithsonian Magazine: 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

And who doesn’t know the mournful song by Gordon Lightfoot? This is quite a fascinating article. Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination. By the day he died, Ernest McSorley had built a reputation as the … Read more

WSJ: “Bias Meltdown at the BBC”

No surprise. They used to be even worse. “It’s a warning to Western democracies not to let the government control news production.” Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, had little choice other than to quit, and neither did the head of the BBC’s news division, Deborah Turness. In a memo leaked last week to the Telegraph … Read more