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
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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.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Seven: Uber’s “Narrative” and The Vox and Stratechery Critiques of Naked Capitalism’s Uber Series – Defending Uber Requires Ignoring Industry Economics
More discussion of defenses of Uber and how none of them deal with the economics of providing car ride services.
Read more...How Obama Framed Trump with Faux Mortgage Insurance Rate Decrease
There are many things for progressives to criticize Trump about. The Obama mortgage deduction sleight of hand isn’t one of them.
Read more...John Helmer: The Western Press Incorrectly Depicts Putin as on the Wrong Side of a Feminist Issue
The Western media goes after Putin on shaky grounds. Evidently, getting him on identity politics sins is more important than real dirt.
Read more...How the Media Continues To Aid Trump
The media overinvests in covering Trump’s antics at the expense of his corporate-friendly policies.
Read more...How The Bond Buyer Hyped a Goldman Ripoff of DC Water as “Deal of the Year”
Municipal bond publication The Bond Buyer gives itself a black eye by touting a ripoff of a sewer and water authority as a good deal.
Read more...Marcy Wheeler: On “Fake News”
If “fake news” is a problem, then it’s a condemnation of the marketplace of ideas largely created by the US.
Read more...How ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War
Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
Read more...Once You Can Fake News, You’ve Got It Made (A Walk Down Memory Lane)
The biggest fake news story in recent memory was from the mainstream media: Iraq
Read more...“The Narrative,” Neoliberalism, and Identity Politics
If one had to devise a narrative for political purposes…
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