Media

Two of the Washington Post‘s least favorite things: Bernie Sanders and opposition to corporate trade deals.

At WaPo, You Can Say Anything to Support TPP–or to Smear Sanders

In pushing trade agreements, it is fair to say anything, even if it has no relationship to the truth. Therefore it is not surprising to see Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post, 9/1/16)…

September 6, 2016
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Bill Gates’ influence is so ubiquitous it’s invisible.

This Guardian Piece Touting Bill Gates’ Education Investment Brought to You by Bill Gates

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The Guardian (8/31/16) published a broadly positive report on Liberian education, which is handing over the reins of 120 primary schools to a consortium of private education companies and NGOs in a…

September 4, 2016
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Reuters (8/19/16) had one of the few media reports on the Pentagon’s mammoth accounting errors.

Ignoring the Pentagon’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Accounting Error

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In 2014, the New York Times () ran a major investigative piece by reporter James Risen about several billion dollars gone missing, part of a shipment of pallets of $12 billion–$14 billion…

September 2, 2016
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PR Firm Says It Ghost-Wrote Thousands of Op-Eds in Major US Papers

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Laura Bentz of Keybridge Communications describes her company as a boutique PR firm—founded by a former writer for the Wall Street Journal—that specializes in writing and placing op-eds. With some of…

September 1, 2016
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The print version of USA Today‘s pharma-friendly EpiPen headline (8/3/16).

USA Today Helps Mylan Sell an Extortionate Price for EpiPen

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“Under Fire, Mylan to Offer Generic EpiPen for 50% Less,” was USA Today‘s headline (8/29/16). That depends on when you start the clock. The drug-maker announced that it would be selling…

August 30, 2016
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Debate: Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

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Mainstream media is dying. The network evening news audience is in steady decline; the big three magazine publishers, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst have all closed or consolidated titles;…

August 16, 2016
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At WaPo, You Can Say Anything to Support TPP–or to Smear Sanders

This Guardian Piece Touting Bill Gates’ Education Investment Brought to You by Bill Gates

Ignoring the Pentagon’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Accounting Error

PR Firm Says It Ghost-Wrote Thousands of Op-Eds in Major US Papers

USA Today Helps Mylan Sell an Extortionate Price for EpiPen

Debate: Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on A…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Man…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying t…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—…

Environment

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate…

Kitchen Nightmare: How Plastic in Everyday Objects Leaches into Food…

Overdevelopment and Climate Change Collide in Catastrophic Flood

Justice

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the…

Extrajudicial killings from Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a…

Media

CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls "60 Minutes" Exposé on…

The state of the free press in the US is……

Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government…

Democracy in Crisis: The Future of Journalism

Philosophy

Good vs. Evil: A Matter of Conscience

Grades and Test Scores Don’t Matter. A Love of Learning…

Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time

The Illusionist

Politics

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use…

How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates…

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely…

Science

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy…

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned…

What If We Could Literally Rewrite the Human Genome?