How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources?
An analysis of David Sanger’s work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous “official” sources.
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Do Russiagate Skeptics Go Too Far?
A Russiagate debate.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...News Watch: A Reading on Collective Angst
Are we wrong in seeing the news being a bit quieter than usual as not a good sign?
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?
On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre: Intel’s Seismic IT Disaster and A Look at Some Implication for Banks
A first look at the epic IT disaster of the Meltdown and Spectre “flaws”.
Read more...Lee Camp: Let Me Fix That For The New York Times – Police Kill Another Innocent Man
A recent New York Times story on yet another police killing as a case study in biased reporting.
Read more...Net Neutrality, Technical Solutions: A New, Neutral, Corporate Net, Municipal Broadband, Mesh Networks (and Gamers)
If Google doesn’t come to the rescue, perhaps municipal broadband or “mesh networks” can save net neutrality.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Coming Battles in the Congress and the Courts
Net Neutrality and the Congressional Review Act, Blackburn’s bill, suits from state AGs Schneiderman and Ferguson, and the Internet Association
Read more...Mark Ames: Kathy Lally Was Caught Trying To Censor Journalism In Russia and Now Deceitfully Claims She’s a Victim
Mark Ames rebuts Kathy Lally’s scurrilous piece in the Washington Post.
Read more...The Fight for Net Neutrality Isn’t Over
The FCC voted Friday to overturn net neutrality, RNN interviews Craig Aaron about next steps to secure a free and open internet.
Read more...Brexit “Breakthrough”: Headfake or May Trying to Engineer Further Capitulation to EU?
The UK has managed show “sufficient progress” so as to be allowed to go to the\ next phase of Brexit talks. But what does that really mean?
Read more...The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How
The Internet has changed considerably since 2014, and not in a good way.
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