The Osborne Identity
The author in uniform circa 1998
Freedom of the press belongs to he who owns the press. A keyboard is my press, and this is my news; it is fairly liberal, but never unbalanced.
Osborne Ink began out of frustration with a social network. At one time, I was getting 100,000 hits a week to a MySpace account with more than a thousand “friends.” Rupert Murdoch didn’t need the help and I was tired of dealing with add requests from Infowars readers. Now I’m in a blog network with some really excellent writers and creatives.
I have been pounding out opinion pieces since I was a teenager. They have been printed in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and various daily papers since I was fifteen. I also write strange little fiction stories that are usually inspired by this blog. All of it is informed by years of study, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and the nine years I spent in uniform serving the country.
Of course, the latter point is significant because I was injured in the line of duty. Every month, the Veterans Administration deposits a chunk of change in my bank account as thank-you for a lumbar spine that will never be the same. It’s not a rich life, as I can no longer work in most traditional occupations. This blog is entirely reader-supported; I’ve been blogging since before they called it “blogging,” but I have yet to see my first check from George Soros.
My areas of study include right-wing authoritarianism and agit-prop. I have chronicled the way right-wing nontroversies arise in the online wingnutosphere, get picked up by right-wing “noise” organizations like Fox News, and eventually wind up featured by “liberal” media using the frames and narratives prepared on the right. In too many cases, these stupid talking points have their origins in the paranoid, John Bircher insanity of yesteryear.
“Liberal” media regularly features right-wing spokesmen without providing viewers a real source-check. “Liberal” media is so scared of perceptions created on the right that anchors routinely let the most ridiculous, easily-debunked talking points fly by them without challenge. Despite all it has done to destroy the country, the right has managed to build a stovepipe right through the media establishment to perpetuate its ideological assault on reform.
I also track global governance issues, Arab media, the affects of technology on society, and matters close to home. The net is cast wide.
