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New London Day: Whackjobs! We want to hear from you!

Saturday, January 23, 2021

The New London Day apparently can’t afford to send it’s reporters into diners to seek out the whackos, like the New York Times, so it’s asking the whackos to come to it. On the front page of today’s Region section there’s a little item asking whackjobs who’ve applied for pistol permits in 2020 to give […]

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Both siding it at the Times

Sunday, December 27, 2020

The New York Times tells us that early doubters are now showing a willingness to take the vaccine. That’s nice. But check out their roll of early doubters: The time frame was dangerously accelerated, many people warned. The vaccine was a scam from Big Pharma, others said. A political ploy by the Trump administration, many […]

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Has the mainstream learned from bloggers?

Saturday, November 28, 2020

I’ve been reading the Political Animal blog for years, and I generally agree with them, but I’m not sure about this particular piece. Political blogging was born in the Bush years, peaked under Obama, and mostly died in the Trump Era. The decline is partly explained by the mainstream media adopting some of blogging’s strongest […]

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I believe I’ve made this point before

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Recently I added Eric Boehlert’s Press Run to my RSS feed. I can highly recommend it, though one might argue that he simply makes the same points as Driftglass, but less colorfully. Still, these are issues that must be raised, though as I’ll get to later, they don’t seem to make a dent in Establishment […]

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An easy prediction

Saturday, November 7, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that The Palmer Report is a guilty pleasure of mine. They usually get their facts right, though the conclusions they draw from those facts are often subject to doubt, though I will say that they their analysis of the election results has been right on. But I must take issue with this […]

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It’s perfectly normal when the right does it

Thursday, August 27, 2020

We often read about both siderism in our media: the insistence by the punditocracy and many reporters that both sides are equally responsible for the rot in our political system. But there’s often something more pernicious going on: an absurd emphasis on something when one political party does it (that would be the party beginning […]

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A simple solution

Saturday, August 22, 2020

This should come as no surprise: In an apparent effort to make his daily news conferences even more like campaign events than they already are, the White House press office has been packing the briefing room with supporters of President Donald Trump from far-right media outlets who can be relied on to toss him softball […]

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A sign of hope?

Friday, June 26, 2020

Is it possible that both siderism is dying a slow death, and that it’s demise will be brought about from the bottom of the media heap? Right now, I know of only one person in the national media who doesn’t play the both siderist game, and that would be Paul Krugman (see, e.g., today’s column), […]

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Political Science, Monty Python Style

Monday, June 15, 2020

Shame on anyone reading this who is not a devotee of Crooks & Liars, and has therefore already read the post and watched the video I’m posting here, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it is, in my opinion, must see. Fox News’ coverage of the Seattle protests has taken another hit after the […]

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The Day Opines

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The New London Day has called on Roseanne Kotowski to resign from the Groton Representative Town Meeting, and State Rep. Craig Fishbein to resign as well, since like Roseanne, he has outed himself as a racist. I’ve written about Roseanne here and here. To briefly recap her story: she sent an email to Groton Town […]

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