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.
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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.
Read more...Iraq Coverage: Yet Another Cavalcade of Stupid at the Wall Street Journal
Our famously free press in action.
Read more...An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
A Boxing Day unwrap-up of bright shiny objects
Read more...‘Hurricane Truthers’: Bonkers Conspiracies Are Putting Lives in Danger
First ant-vaxxers, now hurricane skeptics……
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
Read more...‘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.”
Read more...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.
Read more...‘Enormous Victory’: US Judge Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Electronic Devices Unconstitutional
A judge slaps down DHS for its abuses of border searches of citizens’ devices.
Read more...Ilargi: Vindman, the Expert
A close reading of NSC director Alexander Vindman’s deposition in the impeachment investigation.
Read more...Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
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