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.
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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, […]
Read more...No, Trump Isn’t Imploding — But the Opposition Is Broad and Intense
A look beyond the headline noise to gauge how Trump is faring with the public
Read more...2016 Post Mortem: How Associated Press Reporter Lina Lerer Repeatedly Sandbagged Sanders
An in-depth study of Associated Press reporter Lina Lerer’s work during the 2016 Democratic primary shows a marked anti-Sanders slant.
Read more...“Civil Rights Groups” Throw Public Under the Bus on Net Neutrality for Their Big Telco Donors
How the big telcos have bought off so-called civil rights groups, who are pushing hard to end net neutrality.
Read more...Bill Black: New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Tries to Make Hank Paulson a Hero
As part of reviewing Obama’s legacy, Bill Black eviscerates how Sorkin’s book tried to exhonorate Hank Paulson for his crisis performance.
Read more...Los Angeles Times Calls Out CalPERS Board for “Trying to Muzzle” the One Director Who “Asks Tough Questions”
The Los Angeles Times weighs in on a story we broke. It sharply criticizes CalPERS trustees for trying to gag their most effective member.
Read more...Ilargi: The Media – Fake and False and Just Plain Nonsense
On political and media hypocrisy.
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