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Marino on the media

By David Gonnerman '90
May 6, 2011

"'Idiots – the media are a bunch of idiots,' I bellowed to my wife tuning in to the tail end of Donald Trump's response to President Obama's release of his birth certificate," writes Professor of Philosophy Gordon Marino in "Why I watched Trump and the birthers instead of PBS News Hour," a recent Christian Science Monitor opinion piece.

"I continued, 'Why do they continue to give oxygen to this publicity golem?' The answer: people like me – and, who knows, maybe you."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.