A roundup of editorials includes the spread of so-called “fake news,” President Trump’s war on science, Trump’s skills as a negotiator show that what works in real estate doesn’t translate well in international diplomacy.
From The Red & Black: Since the election President Trump has attacked mainstream media, labeling reporting he doesn’t agree with as fake news.
2. President Trump’s War on Science
From The New York Times: “This is a president who has never shown much fidelity to facts, unless they are his own alternative ones. Yet if there is any unifying theme beyond that to the administration’s war on science, apart from its devotion to big industry and its reflexively antiregulatory mind-set, it is horror of the words “climate change.”
3. Trump’s negotiating skills are urban legends
From CNN: “But, so far, his achievements abroad don't say much for his skills as a negotiator. What works in real estate clearly doesn't in the world of statecraft and international diplomacy. Here in his own words are several Trump tactics that have not only failed, but made things worse.”
4. How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality
From The Washington Post: “The big tech companies (the Europeans have lumped them together as GAFA: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) are shredding the principles that protect individuality. Their devices and sites have collapsed privacy; they disrespect the value of authorship, with their hostility toward intellectual property. In the realm of economics, they justify monopoly by suggesting that competition merely distracts from the important problems like erasing language barriers and building artificial brains.”
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