Category Archives: News Media

Purchasing Pundits: The Ezra Klein Edition?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

So this came across the Twitterz recently: How much is the insurance industry paying Ezra Klein? benefitssellingexpo.com/speakertypes/2… Probably $15,000-$25,000 washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speak…— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) April 09, 2013 If you don’t follow the links, Washington Post policy blogger Ezra Klein is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bidness, Ethics, Healthcare, News Media, Progressives, Public Speaking

Smarter Pundits Needed: The March of History Edition

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

Political pundits, like small children, say the craziest things. Except, unlike small children, there’s nothing cute or funny about it (boldface mine): The panelists were weighing in on the gay marriage cases the Supreme Court will hear later this month. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit As a Load Bearing Structure, News Media

Not For Much Longer

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

Observed at Exeter and Boylston Streets, Back Bay: If you haven’t heard, The Boston Phoenix, one of the original alternative weeklies in the Northeast, published its last issue March 15. Charles Pierce leads the wake.

Posted in Boston, News Media

Ten Years Ago, What One Very Serious Person Was Writing About Iraq

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

Here’s what David Brooks, now respectable rightwing (but not too rightwing! Must…reposition…in…political…landscape…) pundit for the New York Times wrote in his then-home The Weekly Standard ten years ago to the day (boldface mine): Over the past week, George W. Bush … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, News Media | 1 Comment

The People Prefer Plan C

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

No, that’s not a new form of contraception. Business Insider and Survey Monkey conducted a poll asking people to indicate which of three sequestration-avoidance plans they preferred (or letting the sequester happen), but they were very clever. They labelled the … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Fucking Morons, News Media | 5 Comments

The Political Press Needs Its Own Yom Kippur

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

From Ed at Gin and Tacos, this is brilliant (boldface mine): Last week was the tenth anniversary of Colin Powell’s speech to the UN Security Council about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction on February 5, 2003…. I propose that … Continue reading →

Posted in Fucking Morons, Iraq, News Media | 1 Comment

The Conservative Bias of Our Not-Liberal Media: The Environmental Beat Edition

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Recently, I noted that certain policies, even those are quite popular, never get discussed (forget about being enacted into law). One reason is that large scale media outlets have a bias–and it’s definitely not liberal (boldface mine): Peter Dykstra, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, News Media | 1 Comment

How the Compulsive Centrists Enable the Very Partisanship They Bemoan

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Reed Richardson, in a superb post, writes the following (boldface mine): Judging by the rest of the article and his [Fournier's] curt, somewhat dismissive one-word Tweet, though, I suspect it’s difficult for him to answer because he, like many other … Continue reading →

Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Fucking Morons, News Media | 1 Comment

For Every Jindal, Thankfully, There’s a Strama

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

While Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is unrelenting in his efforts to devalue my undergraduate degree, fortunately, another fellow alum, Democratic Texas state Representative Mark Strama is doing us proud regarding education (boldface mine): Strama was surprised to learn that Texas … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, News Media | 1 Comment

Something to Remember When You Hear Our Punditariat Discussing the Looming Fiscal ‘Crisis’

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

It’s simple: the 2012 election. Most of the Washington Mandarin class, our supposed intellectual betters (just threw up in my mouth writing that), couldn’t read polls or understand the basic arithmetic* behind what various people, like Nate Silver, were doing. … Continue reading →

Posted in Fucking Morons, I For One Welcome Our Austerity Overlords, News Media | 1 Comment