50 Years of Gender and Intellectual Ability Stereotypes in Films
Films are doing women no favors, unless you think relegating them to traditional roles is a good thing.
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Conclusive Evidence of the Russian State’s Guilt in the Skripal Case Is Lacking — and That’s Important
A big crack opens up in the official story about the Skripal poisoning.
Read more...Is It Time to Delete Facebook?
Could it be that public indignation at the Facebook profile harvesting scandal will lead to new regulation that could impede the value of some tech-based advertising models? Will it lead to a consumer backlash?
Read more...Andrew Bacevich Shellacks the New York Times’ Usefully Idiotic Coverage of America’s Never-Ending Wars
A well-argued dressing down of the New York Times for its less than illuminating reporting on America’s military adventurism.
Read more...CalPERS (for Once) Does the Right Thing, Votes to Retain Transcription of Meetings
Mirable dictu! CalPERS board members vote to preserve its practice of transcribing board meetings, an important component of accountability and transparency.
Read more...What Is CalPERS Trying to Hide? Plans to Eliminate Transcription of Board Meetings, A Giant Step Backwards in Transparency and Accountability
CalPERS plans to take a big step backwards in terms of governance and credibility via getting rid of transcription of board meetings, when the cost is a pittance compared to the benefits.
Read more...Announcing Our Plan to Launch “CalPERS Central” Transcript Portal
Presenting our plan to make the record of CalPERS’ past and ongoing board meetings accessible to the public via a transcript portal.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Hyping Amazon Banking: “Ridiculous, Ridiculous, Ridiculous”
The Wall Street Journal gets itself duped into publishing some particularly flaky, um, nebulous, um, aspirational Amazon banking ideas.
Read more...Top NYT Editor: ‘We Are Pro-Capitalism, the Times Is in Favor of Capitalism’
The Times swears its fealty to the 10%, um, capitalism…
Read more...Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources?
An analysis of David Sanger’s work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous “official” sources.
Read more...Do Russiagate Skeptics Go Too Far?
A Russiagate debate.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...News Watch: A Reading on Collective Angst
Are we wrong in seeing the news being a bit quieter than usual as not a good sign?
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
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