A right-wing billionaire is asserting his right-wing control.
Television
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: Collateral Damage in the Streaming Wars
With turnover high, streaming services are trying to make the economics work through consolidation, harming viewers and content creators alike.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Hollywood’s Role in Stigmatizing Abortion
And its responsibility now
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Inflation Break the News?
The greatest threat to democracy from media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: CBS News Hires a Prevaricating Trumpoid
Because that’s the kind of thing that TV ‘news’ does.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Wokeness Problem Pales Alongside the GOP’s War on Democracy
Though Times editorialists absurdly assert otherwise.
Posted inTAP
Does The Wall Street Journal Watch Fox News?
Today on TAP: Its editorialists, apparently, have never heard of Tucker Carlson.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: My Adventures With RT
In 2015, Putin’s flacks mistakenly brought me to Moscow to celebrate Russia Today. It didn’t quite work out the way they’d intended.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Right Answers Celebrated; Speaking Truths Not So Much
Jeopardy! champion Emma Saltzberg’s commitment to Israel-Palestine justice draws the ire of the organized American Jewish establishment.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Shed No Tears for Jeff Zucker, Trump’s Great Enabler
At NBC and CNN, Zucker was key to Trump’s rise.
