Fintech Puts Payday Lending Old Wine in New Bottles
“Fintech” provider Lyric Financial is out to take advantage of financially unsophisticated musicians. Hipness is part of the ruse.
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Health Care “Reform” by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo: Media Fails to Report Conflicts of Interest
Quelle surprise! The press regularly presents highly paid, well-connected health care insiders as independent voices on “reform”.
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Evidence that Syrian Gas Story Was Fabricated by the White House
The Obama White House blamed Assad for a 2013 sarin attack in advance of evidence. The claim fell apart. The Trump White House is making a rerun.
Read more...Skepticism About Private Equity Fees Going Mainstream: Pew and CalPERS Versus Yale and Industry Stalwarts
Private equity is getting defensive about its fees, and for good reason: its justifications for them are being exposed as hollow.
Read more...United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Fail
The reporting on United’s aggressive removal of Dr. David Dao has been misleading and also neglected the depth of management lapses.
Read more...The Canadian Establishment and Prime Minister Trudeau Aim at Ousting Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
Is Canada’s Foreign Minister Freeland, in a scandal over lying about her Nazi propagandist grandfather, being hung out to dry by the PM?
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story
The perception that Uber is a competitive success comes from a recycled propaganda campaign.
Read more...Persuasion: An Introduction
Understanding the drivers of persuasion and other influence techniques.
Read more...Another Somalian Famine
On lack of intervention and even much reporting on famine in Somalia, the worst in the 21st century.
Read more...Vanity Fair Acts as Democratic Party Enforcer Against Greenwald, NC, Others; Train Wreck Ensues
James Wolcott had a hissy fit in Vanity Fair last week against parties he deems not sufficiently fixated on toppling Trump, including NC.
Read more...Cambridge Analytica: BINGO!
Our Marina Bart was alone in debunking the supposedly miraculously propaganda powers of Cambridge Analytica, which the Guardian just trashed.
Read more...Do Democratic Operatives Dream of Big Data Death Stars? The Case Against Cambridge Analytica As a Propaganda Tool
Why Big Data isn’t the propaganda threat you’ve been told it is.
Read more...New York Times Gets Budget Story About Looming Trump-Ryan Clash Almost Completely Wrong
Not only does the Grey Lady misrepresent Trump’s and Ryan’s motivations, but they muff budget basics too.
Read more...Hail to the Chief? Scuppering White House Press Corps Traditions
Sean Spicer makes changes to reduce the power of the traditional White House gatekeeper press and increase outsider access; Trump disses nerd prom.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eight: Brad Stone’s Uber Book “The Upstarts”– PR/Propaganda Masquerading as Journalism
By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation companies (primarily airlines). Horan has no financial links with any urban car service industry competitors, investors or regulators, or any firms that work on behalf of industry participants Brad Stone’s new book “The Upstarts,” is subtitled “How Uber, Airbnb, […]
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