NBC Nightly News Ratings Drop After Brian Williams Debacle
By Don Irvine.
The debacle surrounding Brian Williams has not only cost NBC News much of its credibility, but based on the initial ratings since Williams was suspended without pay for six months, it is costing them [...]
Alan Greenspan, Greece, and the Media
By Jon Kofas.
From 2010 until the present, I have been writing that Greece will not leave the euro zone. This is not because the Greek economy of about 180 billion euro or 2% of EU GDP has had such a great experience in the EU, [...]
Fox Decision to Publish Jordanian Pilot’s Death Video Lacks Consistency
By Joe Concha.
Baseball has an old and fast rule regarding umpiring: If an ump is making questionable calls around balls and strikes but is consistent in terms of the parameters of his strike zone, pitchers and batters on both [...]
Is the Internet melting away? Does “link rot” threaten all our memories?
By Christopher B. Daly.
The Internet is many things, and most of us in the developed world have come, in a matter of just a few years, to depend on it for all sorts of things. Like a lot of people, I depend on the Internet to do most of [...]
CNN President Jeff Zucker Consulted Muslim Employees Over Charlie Hebdo
By Don Irvine.
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple blog is reporting that CNN president and CEO Jeff Zucker consulted with Muslim employees of the cable news network regarding his controversial decisions after the terrorist attack on [...]
Ideological “Weeds” Thrive Across the Land
By Richard Larsen.
While recently rereading a classical literary piece from a century ago, I realized anew how each person is a microcosm of the demographic group or society to which he or she belongs. Truly, no man is an island, and [...]
The New Republic: a prime example of “patronage journalism”
By Christopher B. Daly
The New Republic is 100 years old. Yay!
Three cheers for TNR.
One cheer for surviving for a century. (More about that in a minute.)
One cheer for incubating the careers of many [...]
New York Times: Enemy of Truth?
by Stephen Lendman.
The Times is America’s leading establishment publication. Its longstanding history is unprincipled.
Supporting wealth, power and privilege. At the expense of populist interests.
Functioning [...]
Al Sharpton Arguably Now the Most Powerful Person in America
By Joe Concha.
Outside of the president, Al Sharpton might possibly be the most powerful man in America right now. And no, that isn’t an overstatement.
Think about what the 60-year-old activist and MSNBC host has going for him [...]
Fed-backed Twitter study draws fire
By David Ruben.
The Hill – A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission is warning about a government-backed study that “seems to have come straight out of a George Orwell novel.”
Commissioner Ajit [...]
Family Urges Norway to take action for the release of Okello Ochalla
By Betre Yacob.
The family of a Norwegian citizen of Ethiopian origin detained by the Ethiopian Government has urged the Norwegian authorities to exert pressure for his safety and fair trial. Okello Ochalla was seized in South Sudan [...]
FBI Director Doesn’t Rule Out Using Fake Reporter in the Future
By Don Irvine.
The FBI, which came under heavy criticism from the media last month after it was revealed that an agent posed as an AP reporter in 2007 during an investigation into bomb threats at a high school [...]
Left-Wing Media Continue to Dump on Hillary
By Don Irvine.
The left-wing media, which isn’t happy at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton candidacy—or at least the seeming inevitability of such an occurrence—have stepped up their attacks on the former Secretary [...]
Medical and Public Health Concerns: Off-Limits in the Russian Press
By Karl Idsvoog.
(This is a report from 2009, which still holds true as of 2014)
‘The problem facing public health reporters is not the police; it’s a medical system with little transparency and fear of unemployment.’
In [...]
60% of comments on Obamacare Facebook for 2 years from only 100 people
By David Ruben.
Fewer than 100 people comment numerous times a day, analytics revealed
One California woman posted 59 times a day for 60 days only during working hours, she used four different profiles, claims she isn’t [...]
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Accuses the Media of Sexism
By Don Irvine.
Making her first public remarks since the Democrats were routed in the midterm elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the media of sexism for questioning her decision to run again for her post, despite [...]
World Media Parliament – The next idea
By Khairuddin Shadani.
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds [...]
Remembering Ben Bradlee (1921-2014)
By Christopher B. Daly.
Let us now praise Ben Bradlee. He has rightly been called the most courageous and consequential newspaper editor of the postwar period, and I would give him the whole 20th Century. During his 25+ years [...]
Turkey Murders Press TV Reporter Serena Shim
By Stephen Lendman.
Turkey reflects rogue state governance. It’s a NATO member. Part of Washington’s war on Syria. Partnering with US crimes.
Training Islamic State fighters. Doing so covertly on its territory. [...]
Ethiopian journalist Died in Exile
By Betre Yacob.
A prominent Ethiopian journalist, Million Shurube, died in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had been in exile since September 2014.
Million, father of a son, passed away on 13, October 2014 at Kenyata hospital at the age [...]