Could it be that public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal will lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash?
Read more...A well-argued dressing down of the New York Times for its less than illuminating reporting on America’s military adventurism.
Read more...Mirable dictu! CalPERS board members vote to preserve its practice of transcribing board meetings, an important component of accountability and transparency.
Read more...CalPERS plans to take a big step backwards in terms of governance and credibility via getting rid of transcription of board meetings, when the cost is a pittance compared to the benefits.
Read more...Presenting our plan to make the record of CalPERS’ past and ongoing board meetings accessible to the public via a transcript portal.
Read more...The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Read more...The Times swears its fealty to the 10%, um, capitalism…
Read more...The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...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.
Read more...A Russiagate debate.
Read more...How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...Are we wrong in seeing the news being a bit quieter than usual as not a good sign?
Read more...“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
Read more...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.
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