Hello. Mark De Anda here. Thanks for visiting!
As a veteran 28-year broadcaster I’ve been appalled by the recent distrust of honest news reporting. When I first started writing Midnight in America, the term “fake news” hadn’t been coined yet. Having finished my broadcasting career in 2008, the phrase came later when a certain someone popularized it claiming it was actually an oxymoron.
I knew when I first heard the term accepted by many as “truth”, that Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley would be doing 360’s in their respective graves. Midnight in America was meant to be a cautionary tale, the tale of a dystopian society—one that could never happen here in our country.
Well, things have changed.
Midnight in America is a political thriller, an inside look at the shifting nature of political retribution toward the news media. What was intended to be a “cautionary tale” has become a stark snapshot of the world we live in today. The title comes from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock”, and its recent forewarning that we are “85 seconds to midnight”, the closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been in its history.
Let’s hope that’s as close as it gets.
I hope you enjoy Midnight in America and, once again, thanks for visiting.
Hello. Mark De Anda here. Thanks for visiting!
As a veteran 28-year broadcaster I’ve been appalled by the recent distrust of honest news reporting. When I first started writing Midnight in America, the term “fake news” hadn’t been coined yet. Having finished my broadcasting career in 2008, the phrase came later when a certain someone popularized it claiming it was actually an oxymoron.
I knew when I first heard the term accepted by many as “truth”, that Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley would be doing 360’s in their respective graves. Midnight in America was meant to be a cautionary tale, the tale of a dystopian society—one that could never happen here in our country.
Well, things have changed.
Midnight in America is a political thriller, an inside look at the shifting nature of political retribution toward the news media. What was intended to be a “cautionary tale” has become a stark snapshot of the world we live in today. The title comes from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock”, and its recent forewarning that we are “85 seconds to midnight”, the closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been in its history.
Let’s hope that’s as close as it gets.
I hope you enjoy Midnight in America and, once again, thanks for visiting.