Category Archives: Media watch

The 2020 Election in Three Graphs

Following the all-important election money.

Can The US Assassination Of Qassem Soleimani Be Justified?

A useful high level discussion of the Soleimani killing.

Jane Fonda Is Pitching For Our Future. Lend an Ear.

Jane Fonda gave an engaging yet forceful talk on climate change at the Press Club.

Bloomberg Making Nice to China Pays Off; Highly Profitable Conferences Help Stoke Terminal Business

Bloomberg goes to some lengths to toady to China. And his commercial motives are much more obvious than Trump’s were with Russia.

Iraq Coverage: Yet Another Cavalcade of Stupid at the Wall Street Journal

Our famously free press in action.

Tucker Carlson Tears into Vulture Capitalist Paul Singer for Strip Mining American Towns

Tucker Carlson takes on the feared vulture capitalist Paul Singer as an examplar of how hedge funds are destroying American communities.

CalPERS Still Owns Toxic National Enquirer Via Hedge Fund Chatham; CEO Marcie Frost Falsely Says It Was Sold; Columbia Journalism Review Depicts Pending Sale as a Sham

CalPERS is trying to pretend it is done with the National Enquirer. A pending sale would still have CalPERS subsidizing the Enquirer’s costs.

Political Hashtags Like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter Make People Less Likely to Believe the News

A study finds that using hashtags in tweets about news stories turns a lot of readers off. But is that a valid conclusion?

The Privatized Internet — Entire .ORG Domain Registry Sold to Investment Equity Firm “Ethos Capital”; Registration Fee Restrictions Removed

Private equity grifting meets internet domain names.

On TV, Political Ads Are Regulated – But Online, Anything Goes

We’ve had over two years of pearl-clutching about political ads in the Internet era. What if anything should be done?

‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing

Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”

New Paper Reveals Rail Industry Was Leader in Climate Denial Efforts

The rail industry has been able to hide behind the skirts of Big Oil in climate denialism.