Marcy

In a new essay, independent journalist Marcy Wheeler offers these insights about the American news media’s failures in the Age of Trump as demonstrated by their coverage of his apparent plans to seek a third term in office:

“We miss you Nate with our whole hearts and souls and will continue to keep your name and memory alive in all we do our little angel,” his mother, Marcy Castro, wrote on social media.

In defending one of President Andrew Jackson’s appointments, Marcy said, “To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.”

In Marcy’s time, the term spoils referred to the political appointments, such as cabinet offices or ambassadorships, controlled by an elected official.

On Friday, New York State Attorney General Letitia James’s office released video footage of the events that led up to the death of 43-year-old Robert Brooks earlier this month at Marcy Correctional Facility, reports the Utica Observer Dispatch.