Skip to content

Category Archives: Media

A bit of a surprise yesterday, and…

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

And some more or less random observations. First, to the surprise. I’ve been watching the January 6th hearings on my IPad, and I think they’ve been quite useful, but until yesterday nothing I heard surprised me. Most of it was already known, and what wasn’t already known fit so neatly into the Trumpian pattern that […]

Also filed in The Very Stable Genius | | Comments (1)

It’s okay to support a dictator if you’re a Republican

Monday, February 28, 2022

I have nothing original to say about the Ukraine situation, except to add my voice to those of others who have pointed out that Putin, besides being a very powerful man, is a very mentally ill man. Maybe that’s a prerequisite to obtaining power these days. See e.g, the very stable genius. Anyway, one thing […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

At the risk of repeating myself…

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

I get about 100 fundraising emails a day. Today I noticed the subject line on one, which read: “The media is not on our side”. It was from a group called No Dem Left Behind and the text went on to acknowledge that the subject line was no news to anyone. The argument put forward […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Do I repeat myself? Very well then I repeat myself.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

While I’m too lazy to gather the links, I ask any reader who drops by to rest assured this is not the first time I am beating this woefully dead horse. I was moved to this repetion when I stumbled upon this New York Times article in my RSS feed. The header? Biden Scales Back […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Cue the Outrage

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Time for some outrage on the right! Surely in their continuing crusade against cancel culture ! they’ll have something to say about this: Comcast is helping Fox News kill Americans with anti-vaccination propaganda by refusing to air a new ad from The Lincoln Project. … Comcast refused to air The Lincoln Project ad because, “An […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Worth reading

Friday, June 11, 2021

The Boston Globe is in the process of publishing a series of editorials containing its recommendations to prevent future presidents from engaging in the criminality in which the former guy engaged. It is well worth reading. Oddly enough, while the daily paper is only up to the fourth editorial, you can read all of them […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

To Mask or not to Mask

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Over at Press Run Eric Boehlert documents a new media obsession, yet another right wing whining point. Why, they ask, does Biden, a fully vaccinated person, continue to wear a mask. For that matter, why should any vaccinated person where a mask. He observes: It’s slightly jarring that in the wake of the Trump presidency, […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Hard Times at the Times?

Friday, May 7, 2021

I have noticed over the last couple of days that the New York Times has run short of euphemisms. I don’t know if it’s because they used so many during the Trump years that they can’t come up with any more, but lately they’ve been running some euphemistic free articles in which Trump’s lies are […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Hearing what I want to hear

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

I have often criticized the New London Day on this blog, but fair’s fair, and when they may have done a good thing it is only right and just that I acknowledge the same. Today’s letter section contained a letter from a Trumper that began like this: Lie, lie, lie; lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)

Liberal bias runs rampant! Well, actually, not so much

Monday, February 22, 2021

First, let me recommend this site, to which I’m linking for purposes of this post. Eric Boehlert covers media bias, the real kind, that routinely consigns Democrats to the bench. In this instance, he points out something that is both outrageous and perfectly predictable: After creating new programming rules for the Trump administration and airing […]

Also filed in | | Comments (0)