Can we reform the online culture of rampant libel without making it too easy to harass legitimate media?
Media
Posted inAmerica and the World
Altercation: How Low Can They Go? The Media’s Afghan Coverage
To assess the withdrawal, mainstream media go to the ‘experts’ who were wrong or lied about the war for the past 20 years.
Posted inPolitics
The Democrats’ Right-Wing Fringe
Gottheimer and Galston, yanking the Democrats back to their Reagan-age timidity
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate Lobbyists Seek ‘Grassroots’ Support for Forced Arbitration
Emails reveal a conservative tactic to promote forced arbitration in Arizona: offer $2,000 to sign a local newspaper op-ed.
Posted inTAP
BS Alert for Today: Ross Douthat
Today on TAP: Tucker’s Orban gambit needs a mainstream conservative validator.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Altercation: Who’s More Dangerous? Murdoch or Zuckerberg?
Two public-health (and democracy-health) menaces duke it out.
Posted inTAP
Tucker Trundles to Tin-Pot Land
Today on TAP: Like Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson clearly hopes to build a global, white, Christian, authoritarian movement
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Implications of Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel Lawsuit
It’s actually a story about Hollywood labor compensation, and the growing power of streaming services.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Roots of Crime Hysteria
Thanks to demagogic pols and craven media, the public believes crime is far more pervasive than it actually is.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: How to Cover the Big Lies, and Understand Those Who Fall for Them
The media’s still struggling to depict the dangers and the roots of the right’s mass delusions.
