Len Tow — BuzzMachine
We have lost a most generous soul. I have lost a benefactor, mentor, and friend. Leonard Tow died Sunday at age 97. Len held a PhD in economic...| BuzzMachine
We have lost a most generous soul. I have lost a benefactor, mentor, and friend. Leonard Tow died Sunday at age 97. Len held a PhD in economic...| BuzzMachine
Like every sane American, I am outraged that CBS/Paramount/Ellison Inc. canceled — in the true meaning of the word — Stephen Colbert, capitulating to...| BuzzMachine
The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The record is clear. It is time to examine receipts. | BuzzMachine
The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The record is clear. It is time to examine receipts. The latest attack on him is journalistically...| BuzzMachine
In an endless game of lobbyists’ Whac-A-Mole, it’s a new year and here is new legislation trying to save the news. Except it’s not new. First, from Oregon, comes a rehash of bad legislation written by newspaper hedge-fund lobbyists, versions of which were deflected in two other states last year. At least the Beaver State […] The post Here we go again appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
For 25 years now, the Edelman PR company has issued its Trust Barometer. This year, it’s all about grievances. It’s Festivus every day, the world around. Six in 10 people in the survey “hold grievances against business, government, and the rich.” Only 36% worldwide — 30% in the US, 14% in Germany, 17% in the UK — believe the […] The post The whole world is whining appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
Two days to go until the fascist oligarchy comes to power in the United States and this is how our once-greatest newspaper, The New York Times, is covering what could end in the fall of American democracy. To The Times, all the world’s Trump’s stage and they’re merely spectators. On the socials, I started to […] The post How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
Every current and common explanation for the reelection of Donald Trump — whether inflation or immigration, culture wars or campaign tactics, blaming Harris or Biden or the party — elides its true and root cause: racism. The United States is a deeply, fundamentally racist nation and unless and until we in white America admit and address that, our endless […] The post It’s the racism, stupid appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
Nevermind every other theory or tactical complaint about what happened in this election. Kamala Harris did everything she possibly could to win. The fault is not hers. The fault is in our nation. We must come to the realization that America is deeply racist and sexist, incapable of electing a Black, Asian woman to its […] The post How Fucked Are We? Very. appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
Rupert Murdoch’s media have been a key source of moral panic about the internet and technology — see, for example, this from his Times declaring that phones are “dope” that imprison us all in an epidemic of addiction causing cognitive decline: On the latest episode of This Week in Google, we discussed parents’ legitimate concerns about their […] The post The technology addiction trope appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke up one morning asking, in headlines I will quote below, “What are we doing wrong?” I will start by trying to answer the question for them, The New York Times, CNN, and the rest of incumbent journalism: You have refused to recognize fascism […] The post How they have failed us appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
As often as I am disappointed in and critical of them lately, I will not cancel my subscriptions to The New York Times or The Washington Post. They should be so lucky, for I will stay on their cases. I also wish to support the good reporting that still comes from them. I’ve been thinking […] The post What’s become of The Times & Co.? appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
As Nicolle Wallace exclaimed on her show Friday, Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have all gathered together around a cause. That cause is democracy and its standard bearer is Kamala Harris. This is a momentous time in the United States, unprecedented at least in this century and likely since long […] The post The unprecedented grand coalition appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
I’ve long said that Rupert Murdoch is the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy. He executes his strategy in small ways that add up. Here is an example: how a trope is born across Murdoch’s worldwide empire. Here is the editorial board of #MurdochJournal with its paternalistic, patronizing, sexist, diminishing take on the Harris/Walz […] The post How Murdoch makes a meme appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
A deal has just been struck in California by Assembly member Buffy Wicks that averts what could have been, in my opinion, disastrous legislation written by lobbyists to benefit primarily incumbent, investor- and hedge-fund-controlled news media in and out of the state. I am gratified that the outline of the announcement approaches what I had […] The post California’s Deal for News appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
Since I’ve been constantly criticial of The Times and its coverage of the election, here is a thread from the socials in which I note a Sunday morning of positive coverage of Kamala Harris leading the paper online: Well knock me over with a bald eagle feather: The Times leads today with positive coverage of Kamala Harris. […] The post Could a new day dawn at The Times? appeared first on BuzzMachine.| BuzzMachine
