Remember Richard Jewell? He was accused of placing a bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics. He endured a horrific trial (and conviction) by media and had his life destroyed. […]
CNN commits journalistic malpractice. Again.
From Christmas to August: Postscript and Appendix
by Michael Tracey Postscript In November 2007, just as I was finishing a draft of this essay I was talking to a television executive during a visit to London. He asked if there […]
Meanings, pt. 4: an awful, dark year
by Michael Tracey In his essay, “The White Negro,” Norman Mailer references Marxist thought with a level of respect but pointed to its failure in application because, as he put it, “it […]
Meanings, pt. 3: public service
by Michael Tracey Let me return to a period which is widely regarded within the advanced industrial societies as a high water mark of public service broadcasting, the BBC in the early […]
Meanings, pt. 2: a crisis of prevailing values
by Michael Tracey It isn’t just that there is an appetite for scandal, sex, sleaze, death narratives, it is also that feeding such appetites can be very profitable. The fact is that […]
Meanings, pt. 1: Post-OJ America
by Michael Tracey “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland So on to the really interesting part: what has it all meant, what […]
Daxis, pt. 3: snake on a plane
by Michael Tracey There had earlier been another development that caught the attention of the local US intelligence services based in the embassy. In July Daxis had told me that he had […]
Daxis, pt. 2: Bangkok
by Michael Tracey In the spring of 2006 one email caught my attention. Daxis had been demanding that I provide him with contact details for Patsy, an email address and a phone […]
Daxis, pt. 1: son of the Devil
by Michael Tracey “O hateful error, melancholy’s child! Why dost thou show, to the apt thoughts of men, The things that are not?” – (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, ib, 67) Then something strange […]
Up next: Daxis
Dr. Michael Tracey played a major role in the capture and arrest of John Mark Karr, the man who confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey. This much we know. However, in the wake […]
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