I suppose I should also put this here, as it’s a stunning indictment of Esquire magazine, but there are also details about Bryan Singer’s treachery that I don’t remember from the Atlantic piece. In any case, it’s an essential long read.

 

 

Interesting how this human trafficking story in Jupiter, FL seems to not be getting nearly as much laser-like focus as the Jussie Smollet case.  Also terrible is the fact that the defenders of these perpetrators are out in full force to defend their actions, as if this is somehow a victim-less crime.  These women were threatened and their passports held, while the conditions they are living in are horrendous.

 

That headline is ridiculous.  The TV anchor still has a career to spew nonsense, so being chastized and chastened by the twitter-sphere hardly qualifies as being "demolished".

 

TV anchor demolished for defending right-wing billionaire caught in human trafficking scandal: ‘Another reason to avoid CNN’ https://t.co/qrXHzPPcFC

— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 24, 2019

Edited February 24, 20196 yr by DramatistDreamer

Super disturbing.

 

 

Jenna replaces Kathie Lee. There were rumors that NBC was holding out for someone splashier, but she’s a safe choice since she co-hosts all the time anyway.

 

 

Nepotism pays.

This is good.

 

 

Just like CNN is focusing on documentaries.

 

 

 

This caught my eye.

 

It’s the silences – the things left out and sent down the “memory hole” – that strike me most in the United States’ Orwellian capitalist and white-supremacist media. https://t.co/qisCpTbMBP

— CounterPunch (@NatCounterPunch) March 1, 2019

 

I mean it's a fairly hard left-wing publication but it made a few points worth noting, especially as related to the fixed attention of the media to certain news events while ignoring others (*coughs Jussie Smollet*)

 

What he discusses in this Op-Ed piece is pretty scary.  Sometimes I've seen this on Twitter but from what I hear it's ten times worse on Facebook and especially What's App.

 

 

When two nuclear-armed neighbors went to the brink of war, I followed how the news played.

It was alarming: misinformation and outright lying was everywhere. Online, on TV, there was no escape from mendacity.

Here's my column on post-fact warfare. https://t.co/WZy4Cqlvp9

— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) March 6, 2019

 

BREAKING: Facebook's controversial data-sharing deals are under criminal investigation. A grand jury in New York has issued multiple subpoenas to device-makers that partnered with the social media giant. @laforgia_ @AllMattNYT & @gabrieldance https://t.co/bKLTzAiANC

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) March 13, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

Yep. One of the reasons why most people I know are leaving media.