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Category Archives: Media

They don’t know much about history, but they still get to write it

Scott Lemieux, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, notes that some in the media have now started to both sides the insurrection. The headline of the piece to which he links reads: One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry. The text he excerpts from the […]

Dean Baker calls out the media

I’m a big Dean Baker fan, but sometimes he just doesn’t get it. Take this post, in which he complains as follows: It may not qualify as “The Big Lie,” but the media feel the need to constantly claim that young people can no longer afford to buy homes. The latest salvo is the Washington […]

An oft ranted rant in the liberal blogosphere

You can’t spend much time on the left wing blogosphere without running into a rant like that which follows, but I’m going to do it anyway. It has become increasingly obvious that Donald Trump’s mental illness has become more extreme, exacerbated, no doubt, by oncoming senility. I have not kept up a database of the […]

Movie Review

Last Night my wife and I, along with some friends, went to see Barbie. I can honestly say that it was the best movie we’ve gone to in years. I can also honestly say it was the worst move we’ve gone to in years, since it was the first movie we’ve gone to in years. […]

Something missing from the White House cocaine reporting

I should start this by saying that I haven’t read everything out there about the cocaine discovered in the White House, but what I have read leaves me wondering: why isn’t the most obvious possible source of the cocaine being bandied about, rather than focusing on Hunter Biden or Joe? The cocaine was found in […]

Emptywheel documents the atrocities

This is, in my opinion, a must read near diatribe by emptywheel. It is a fact that much of the non-Fox media has been complicit in helping to legitimize Republican propaganda by passing it on without putting it in what should be an obvious context. In the linked post she demonstrates how much of the […]

Time to check out the diners

There’s been a lot of breathless bloviating by our media about how unprecedented and foreboding it is to have an ex-president indicated indicted, though I don’t recall such bloviation when an obvious career criminal was elected in the first place. We have been and will be treated to a lot of reaction from the genius’s […]

Lies and lying liars

Over at Hullabaloo we read that Fox’s right wing competitors have utterly failed to cover the Dominion lawsuit and the unsurprising revelations that Fox’s on air personalities were knowingly lying to their viewers about the 2020 election, among a host of other things. Digby concludes: This just shows how homogenous the right wing media sphere […]

Both Siderism to the 10th power

Any regular readers of this blog, should they exist, know that I’m a big fan of Driftglass, who has spent years document bothsiderism and the attendant atrocities. It’s a shame that he isn’t aware of today’s New London Day, which has once again bent over backward to so far to be “fair and balanced” it […]

Nothing new under the sun

My professorial son got me Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary Sam Adams for Christmas. It’s actually the third Adams biography I’ve read, but being the geezer that I am, I can’t recall whether the previous biographies emphasized the part of Adam’s history about which I’m writing now. Adams was a prolific writer/propagandist. He started what might […]