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Our Free Press at Work

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Sorry to return to this subject, but… If there were a God, I would be thanking him or her right now for the fact that I don’t have a television nor am I forced to watch television news. Put Fox aside. Are there no televison “journalists” with the guts to call bullshit on Republican spinmeisters? […]

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Those Brits, behind the times

Monday, July 11, 2016

Simon Wren-Lewis is a British economist who has a blog called Mainly Macro. Recently he blamed the British tabloids for the Brexit vote, among other things: My post ‘The triumph of the tabloids’ is now easily my most read post in the four and a half years I have been writing a blog. I suspect […]

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Getting easier to pass the Trump test

Friday, July 8, 2016

We folks here in Southeastern Connecticut have had to watch the slow decline of the New London Day, which used to be a good newspaper with a reasonable editorial policy. It has now become, essentially, an automatic supporter of all but the most insane Republicans, and even they get a second look. One of the […]

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My liberal heart is bleeding

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

I feel so bad for Gretchen Carlson: Former “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson alleged in an explosive lawsuit filed Wednesday that Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes fired her for rebuffing his sexual advances and challenging a sexist newsroom culture. Carlson, who spent 11 years at the network, described being ostracized and marginalized […]

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The mind of a pundit

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

If you read Dean Baker’s blog, Beat the Press on a regular basis, you know that he regularly beats up on Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when Samuelson offers up yet more reasons to eviscerate social security. Today Dean relates that Samuelson is upset that Obama has joined the ranks (if only rhetorically) of […]

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Times to Donald: You hurt our feelings. When can we do it again?

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The New York Times is taking a bit of heat (example, here ) about its article this morning, in which it spends several introductory paragraphs bemoaning how mean Donald Trump is to the media, while only hinting at, rather than explicitly saying, that he lied about his donations to Veteran’s groups. To my mind, the […]

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Your point being?

Sunday, May 22, 2016

This morning’s Boston Globe has an article entitled In Custody case, Clinton took the side of a father. When she was a thirty year old lawyer Clinton represented a father in a custody case and she won. For that era, it was quite a feat. I didn’t do much family work back then, but I […]

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Rejected by the Day

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Recently I alluded to the fact that the New London Day, and in particular, its columnist, Dave Collins has been conducting a bit of a jihad against our State Senator, Andy Maynard. Andy suffered a brain injury before the last election. He now suffers from aphasia, which means he has trouble articulating his thoughts. As […]

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Journalistic Ethics

Monday, March 21, 2016

What a great idea! Pam and Russ Martens speculate that Forbes may have pulled an article critical of JPMorgan because they don’t want to damage an interesting relationship they have with said JPMorgan. If Forbes doesn’t have to worry about a libel lawsuit, what else might be behind its rapid yanking of the article? As […]

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Half right at the Economist

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Over at Down with Tyranny, I had the chance to read something of the Economist’s reasoning for calling Donald Trump a global threat. Don’t get me wrong, he is truly a threat, but their list gives away a lot of what the fear of the Establishment is all about. While we’re worried about living in […]

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