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.
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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.
Read more...Neoliberalism Booster New York Times Egregiously Misrepresents French Labor Laws
The New York Times’ latest dubious achievement: how many lies it managed to tell in a single story about French labor laws.
Read more...New York Times Claims Bidders Circling Uber….But How Serious Is This, Really?
The Uber soap opera continues, and the New York Times is doing its part by applying lots of porcine maquillage.
Read more...Crisis Revisionist History: Redating of Onset to Make Behind the Curve Central Bankers Look Better
It would be nice if people who made pronouncements about the financial crisis knew what they were talking about.
Read more...Private Equity Firms Sued Over Retailer Bankruptcies
Private equity is getting more critical coverage and legal pushback, as it wrecks yet more companies.
Read more...Crossing National Public Radio (NPR) Off My List for Health Care Coverage
NPR helpfully consolidates a number of liberal Democrat health care myths and shibboleths at a single location.
Read more...Lee Camp: Enjoy the Trump Show While Wall Street Pillages the Country
Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.
Read more...Aiding and Abetting Trump as Tweeter-in-Chief
The media fixation with Trump’s tweets is leading them to shirk real reporting on what Trump is up to.
Read more...Crapification at The New York Times
A close reading of some pages from yesterday’s Times.
Read more...Lee Camp: Have No Fear – Trump Is Lying Us Into War Just Like All The Presidents Before Him
The Donald is completely conventional in having the media assist him in fomenting war on trumped-up grounds.
Read more...CalPERS’ CIO Plays Board Like a Fiddle, Uses Trumpian Tactics on Credulous True Believers
CIO Ted Eliopoulos digs CalPERS a bigger PR hole and CalPERS’ board is so thick that it approves.
Read more...Gaius Publius: An Investigation in Search of a Crime
How one element of the investigation into Trump is a nothingburger even if it pans out.
Read more...CalPERS’ Massive Copyright Infringement Strongly Resembles Case That Awarded $19.2. Million in Damages
An key precedent confirms that CalPERS’ massive copyright infringement could generate over $10 million in damages to both the NYT ad and WSJ.
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