Sloppy Journalism about “Fully Autonomous” (Except Not) Robot Cars on (Some of) Manhattan’s Streets
Cuomo announces that self-driving cars will be tested on the streets of Manhattan: a critique of the press coverage
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May Rebuffed in Personal Brexit Lobbying in Brussels, Yet Much of UK Press Spins Otherwise
The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...The Case of the Spitting Legionnaire
How the “spitting on our veterans” meme is a remarkable and complete inversion of the facts.
Read more...John Helmer: Lunatic Russia-Hating in Washington Is 70 Years Old. It Started with Joseph Alsop, George Kennan and the Washington Post
The upper class origins of Russia-hating in the US.
Read more...“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
How an out-of-control opioid industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Read more...Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Limited Art of Interpretation
Why is the brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates not as persuasive as you’d expect?
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports on SoftBank Offer for Uber….Yet No Other Press Outlet is Picking the Story Up
Why are major media outlets uncharacteristically ignoring a big SoftBank-Uber story that the Wall Street Journal broke yesterday?
Read more...Dow Jones Sent Mother of All Nastygrams to CalPERS Over Its Massive Copyright Infringement; New York Times Called It Outrageous, Brazen, Possibly Unprecedented
Missives from the Dow Jones and the New York Times to CalPERS confirm that the pension fund is going to have to write some very large checks.
Read more...New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest
Google henchwoman Anne-Marie Slaughter has shown far too openly how Google is throwing its money and weight around in DC.
Read more...Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Google’s and ProPublica’s “Hate Crimes” Initiative
Google and ProPublica launch a new “hate crimes’ tracker that isn’t, and may never be, ready for prime time.
Read more...Google’s Censorship, Plans to Restrict Publisher Advertising Raises Antitrust Issues
More on how Google plans to tighten its chokehold on the Internet.
Read more...Debunking the Myth of “Free Speech”
Contrary to widespread misperceptions, we’ve never had free speech in America, and there are good reasons why not.
Read more...Why Explaining US Internal Strife Through “Russian Influence” Is Lazy and Unhelpful
Debunking the latest Twitterverse fever-swamp claims about Russian influence, this time regarding “ties” to Charlottesville.
Read more...Uber PR Story on Supposed Financing Falling Apart as Warring Board Members Trade Barbs
Things are so bad at Uber that planted stories are falling apart within days.
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