Category Archives: Media watch

CalPERS Pays $3.4 Million to Dow Jones to Settle Massive Copyright Infringement That We Exposed

CalPERS has torched $4 million total in beneficiary funds so far by acting as if it were above the law and could steal from journalists and publishers.

Why I Hate Google, Twitter, and Facebook

Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.

New York Times: Virtuous McKinsey Defiled by Dark Continent

McKinsey is unhappy that the New York Times did a serious investigative story on a major scandal in South Africa….when the Times pulled some of its punches.

Will Investors Like CalPERS Fall for Private Equity’s Long-Lived Fund Con?

Beware of the private equity “innovation,” the long-lived or “permanent capital” fund. It is virtually guaranteed to short change investors on returns needed to compensate for the longer holding period.

Gaius Publius: Notes on Seymour Hersh’s Book “Reporter”

Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.

CalPERS Makes Nasty, Inaccurate, and Self-Damaging Attack on Dean of Sacramento Columnists for Criticizing Private Equity Outsourcing Scheme

CalPERS, in a desperate-looking defense of its private equity outsourcing scheme, scores an own goal.

The War Nerd: Anglo-American Media’s Complicity in Yemen’s Genocide

Yemen starves….and why the Western media looks the other way.

How Media Amnesia Has Trapped Us in a Neoliberal Groundhog Day

How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.

PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits

Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.