The Everett Herald was sold with its parent company to a Mississippi news conglomerate in March 2024. That company, Carpenter Media Group, promptly laid off over half of the paper’s newsroom staff (read story here and watch video below). Herald news staff formed a union in 2022 and had been tr[...]
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June 25th, 2024 - 12:37 am § in Business, News Media
Everett Herald’s new owners greet staffers with pink slips
Fox is already inciting election violence
Fox’s talking heads are already inciting election violence. They must want another Jan. 6, 2021. “Twice last week,” MSNBC reported here, Greg Gutfeld (photo, left) told Fox audiences “the public will only believe the 2024 results are legitimate if President Joe Biden loses.” Also las[...]
Is it OK for a non-veteran to wear dogtags?
I’m a veteran, and I don’t wear dogtags (anymore). Fox host Maria Bartiromo isn’t a veteran, and she wears dogtags, to honor the veterans in her family. After thinking about it, I’m OK with it; it’s nice that she pays tribute to her father, who served, and uncle, who wa[...]
Biden didn’t head-butt the Pope
Under “News of Things That Didn’t Happen Today,” this is a story only because Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany is the story. On June 14, 2024, McEnany enhanced her reputation as an airhead (see my posts here and here) by alleging that President Biden “head-butted” Pope Fr[...]
Ignore CNN’s investing advice, and laugh at Wells Fargo Bank
Why CNN’s investing advice is laughable The headline of a CNN article published (here) on Friday, June 14, 2024, a day when stock indexes sank a little more after sinking for the last month, reads: “Here’s how to invest in stocks when interest rates are higher for longer” “[...]
June 14th, 2024 - 2:06 am § in News Media, Politics
News or propaganda?
It can be hard to tell. The news industry’s traditional business model has collapsed, and newsrooms are going away. Newspapers used to be supported by advertising, local TV news by commercials. But shopping and advertising moved to the internet, greatly reducing financial support for unbiased [...]
June 12th, 2024 - 6:35 pm § in News Media, Republicans
Inflated valor
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX; bio here) was an Army reservist who served as a civil affairs officer in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division. The Pentagon just revoked his Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), which he’d been wearing on his civilian suit jacket, because he wasn’t an infantryma[...]
Heritage chief claims Democrats are illegitimate
The Heritage Foundation used to be a heavyweight conservative think tank. That’s changing. In 2021, Kevin Roberts (photo, left) took it over, and he’s wrecking its reputation as a conservative ideas factory. Roberts, an election denier, views Heritage’s role as “institutional[...]
Biden or Trump, some choice
The 2024 polls show most Americans prefer [x] neither of the above. But presidents don’t need to be popular, and usually aren’t. JFK’s popularity was a big thing in its time because popular presidents are rare. There are three important considerations in choosing a president and po[...]
Three of a kind
Demagogues have more in common with each other than us. America’s Trump, Britain’s Boris Johnson, and Italy’s Berlusconi aren’t carbon copies of each other, but they do bear a strong resemblance. For one thing, they lie a lot; and they’ll subvert the rule of law “[...]