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Be it Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Be it Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media My opening remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto tonight Tonight at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, I’m teaming up with The War on the West author Douglas Murray in the prestigious Munk Debates. Our opponents are Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer, and […]
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1 YouTube censored this site for accuracy, yet new news today underscores that they continue to hype fake news. As subscribers by now are aware, I’m very upset about YouTube’s recent decision to censor a factually accurate video about “rigged election” comments produced for this site by Matt Orfalea. The company […]
Anthony Blinken Raises The Pucker Factor On Dissent: Taibbi
Anthony Blinken Raises The Pucker Factor On Dissent: Taibbi After publishing “On John Lennon’s Birthday, a Few Words About War” last night, old friend and former Moscow Times editor Matt Bivens* and I discovered we’d written on the same topic. You can find Matt’s excellent essay here. He notes a big thing I missed. A series of ominous statements was […]
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell
The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written A Monday story in the Washington Post entitled “Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who exposed U.S. surveillance’” began: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant […]
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy Fringe Minority, Eh? TK Partners News2Share take a balanced look at the Canadian protests In the above video, TK Partners News2Share do a fantastic job of doing what the conventional press mostly hasn’t done with the “Freedom Convoy” story, asking the right questions about who’s participating, what their concerns are, and how the […]
Another All-Time Media Faceplant
Another All-Time Media Faceplant After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion “It was a joke, you idiots.” If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and […]
The Great International Convoy Fiasco
The Great International Convoy Fiasco As America puts the Canadian Prime Minister’s unmentionables in a vice over a truck protest, it’s clearer than ever: the world’s leaders have forgotten how to govern The White House issued a statement Friday, after Joe Biden chatted with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: The two leaders agreed that the actions of the individuals […]
The Folly of Pandemic Censorship
The Folly of Pandemic Censorship As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research report on Substack to The Guardian and The […]
2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives
2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year is no exception. Poignant and delightfully acerbic when necessary, considering the troubling times. As with past years, he selected Peak Prosperity […]
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who Exposed the “Rigged Game”
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who Exposed the “Rigged Game” “We have mass incarceration for the poor, and it’s totally hands-off for the rich, and that’s pretty hard to stomach.” Justice Jed Rakoff on his new book, and his famous challenge to the system Jed Rakoff On November 27, 2011, a federal judge named Jed […]
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do The soul of rectitude testifies in the Senate The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of […]
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with spy agencies they once oversaw Former CIA director John Brennan was a media villain, now he’s media himself. What a difference a decade makes. Just over ten years ago, on July 25, […]
People against Politicians Who Always Want War
People against Politicians Who Always Want War QUESTION: Are you saying that the people left alone do not hate each other, it is the politicians? FK ANSWER: Yes. They do not teach hatred in school in Israel or the Arab world directly. They will teach biased history but that is in all countries. There are families who […]
In Defense Of Substack
In Defense Of Substack UCLA professor Sarah T. Roberts mourns the good old days of gatekeeping and credential-worship UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, co-leader of something called the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry — media critics whose stated goal is “strengthening democracy through culture-making” — went on a lengthy Twitter tirade against Substack last night, […]
We Need a New Media System
We Need a New Media System If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences The moment a group of people stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, news companies began the process of sorting and commoditizing information that long ago became standard in American media. Media firms work backward. They […]
