by Henry Oliner | Sep 4, 2022 | Media, Politics
Forty years ago, we all got our news from three TV stations (CBS, ABC and NBC), the same local newspapers, and a small handful of magazines (Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News). A few would supplement their reading with The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and...
by Henry Oliner | May 4, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
Jason Riley writes in The Wall Street Journal, Was a Judicial Nominee Prejudiced in Her ‘Role as an Advocate’? Nusrat Choudhury claimed police kill unarmed black men in America ‘every day.’ That’s nowhere near true. Shelby Steele calls them “poetic truths.” They are...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 23, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Invasion of the Fact-Checkers by Jacob Siegel at Tablet: By putting an official stamp on obvious manipulations of language, the fact-checkers license false and misleading coverage by outlets that playact the quaint 20th-century practice of objective news...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 19, 2022 | Media
A fascinating polling piece at YouGov.com illuminated how much we overestimate the size of minority groups whether it is Blacks, Jews, lesbians, transgenders or millionaires. How can it be that in a nation drowning in sources and distribution of information we can be...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 6, 2022 | Media
From Kevin Williams in National Review, Sarah Palin vs The New York Times: Our friends in the media who bemoan the rise of Donald Trump and Trump-style politics — which is to say, the politics of lies — have some penance of their own to do, because it was not...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds at New York Post, Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it: A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The...
