Category Archives: Media watch

Uber PR Story on Supposed Financing Falling Apart as Warring Board Members Trade Barbs

Things are so bad at Uber that planted stories are falling apart within days.

Neoliberalism Booster New York Times Egregiously Misrepresents French Labor Laws

The New York Times’ latest dubious achievement: how many lies it managed to tell in a single story about French labor laws.

New York Times Claims Bidders Circling Uber….But How Serious Is This, Really?

The Uber soap opera continues, and the New York Times is doing its part by applying lots of porcine maquillage.

Crisis Revisionist History: Redating of Onset to Make Behind the Curve Central Bankers Look Better

It would be nice if people who made pronouncements about the financial crisis knew what they were talking about.

Private Equity Firms Sued Over Retailer Bankruptcies

Private equity is getting more critical coverage and legal pushback, as it wrecks yet more companies.

Crossing National Public Radio (NPR) Off My List for Health Care Coverage

NPR helpfully consolidates a number of liberal Democrat health care myths and shibboleths at a single location.

Lee Camp: Enjoy the Trump Show While Wall Street Pillages the Country

Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.

Aiding and Abetting Trump as Tweeter-in-Chief

The media fixation with Trump’s tweets is leading them to shirk real reporting on what Trump is up to.

Crapification at The New York Times

A close reading of some pages from yesterday’s Times.

Lee Camp: Have No Fear – Trump Is Lying Us Into War Just Like All The Presidents Before Him

The Donald is completely conventional in having the media assist him in fomenting war on trumped-up grounds.

CalPERS’ CIO Plays Board Like a Fiddle, Uses Trumpian Tactics on Credulous True Believers

CIO Ted Eliopoulos digs CalPERS a bigger PR hole and CalPERS’ board is so thick that it approves.

Gaius Publius: An Investigation in Search of a Crime

How one element of the investigation into Trump is a nothingburger even if it pans out.

CalPERS’ Massive Copyright Infringement Strongly Resembles Case That Awarded $19.2. Million in Damages

An key precedent confirms that CalPERS’ massive copyright infringement could generate over $10 million in damages to both the NYT ad and WSJ.

Seymour Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria

RNN’s Aaron Maté and legendary correspondent Seymour Hersh discuss Hersh’s latest Syria story, originally published in Die Welt.