Category Archives: Media watch

Boston “T” FOIA Fight v. Boston Globe Over $25 Million Loss-Making Hedge Fund Investment

The Boston Globe is fighting the MBTA pension fund to obtain records about an investment gone bad recommended by a former insider.

Robert Reich: Why Is One of Sanders’ Most Important Proposals Being Ignored?

Sanders’ financial transactions tax plan hasn’t gotten the hearing it deserves.

Bill Black: Adam Davidson, the 1%’s Lord Haw-Haw, Mangles Economic Theory to Attack Sanders

Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?

Market Fundamentalism on ObamaCare at the New York Times

A close reading of a Times story showing the ideology of market fundamentalism in action.

Bill Black: Andrew Ross Sorkin Makes a Hash of Met Life “Too Big to Fail” Decision

Andrew Ross Sorkin yet again misinforms readers, to the benefit of Big Finance.

The Dirty German Ditty That Got Erdogan So Angry That He Sued

It appears that Erdogan never got the memo: if you are going to be in politics, you need to have a thick skin.

Who Got Reuters to Pull Article on Sanders’ “Left Hook” TV Ad?

Reuters deep sixed a favorable article about a hard-hitting Sanders ad. The only plausible explanation is pressure from the Clinton campaign.

Open Thread: Reader Takes on Sanders/Clinton Brooklyn Debate

Seeking reader reactions to last night’s Sanders/Clinton debate.

Michael Hudson: Pamama – Laundering Haven for War Budgets

Michael Hudson explains the history of Panama as a center to launder earnings for the oil and the gas industries, and the mining industry.

Krugman Kinda, Sorta Retracts a Key Part of Last Friday’s ‘Sanders Over the Edge’ Op-ed

Being Paul Krugman means never having to say you’re sorry.

Gillian Tett Shows She Does Not Understand Offshore “Profits,” Parrots Corporate Propaganda Instead

Repeat after me: Apple and Big Pharma companies are not keeping cash offshore as a result of tax rules, but they are successfully misleading the press and politicians.

#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players

Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces

New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big

First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory

Mainstream Media Ignores Blockbuster Expose of Massive Bribery in Iraq by Unaoil

Fairfax and Huffington Post have broken a monster story on bribery by Unaoil in Iraq that implicates major multinational corporations and officials all over the Middle East. So why the media blackout?

Corporate Media Tries to Bury Sanders Alive

This Real News Network segment focuses on the media’s misconstruction, or more accurately, misrepresentation, of what superdelegates mean for the Sanders campaign.