Category Archives: media

Sell-Out At The NY Times

October 11, 2021 – 6:52 pm

The New York Times was a great newspaper in my youth. Their reporters helped publish the Pentagon Papers for Daniel Ellsburg, Neil Sheehan ripped off the government’s cloak of invisibility over the Viet-Nam Invasion, and I loved their motto ‘All the news that is fit to print.’ Times have changed since the 70s. The Drug […]

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Pregnant Man Kidnapped on Internet

December 16, 2020 – 7:12 am

Maybe I’m crazy, but several years ago I read an article on www.bbcnews.com about a pregnant man in the UK. The photo looked very much like that of a Hawaiian stripper who underwent a sex change operation and had a baby in 2008 as a man. I was going to write about his second miracle […]

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White Trash Fairy Tale

November 14, 2017 – 11:21 am

Traditionally there are only three ways to get rich; birth, marriage, or theft. Anne Nichole Smith, Texas sex bomb, stepped off the runway of a strip club into popular culture by wedding an admiring oil tycoon. Their sixty-three year age difference evoked cries of gold-digger from the billionaire’s family. That accusation might have been true, […]

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Huffington Post Fluff

July 20, 2017 – 12:47 pm

The Huffington Post was founded by Arianna Huffington on May 9, 2005. Ms. Huffington was a respected conservative journalist and under her tutelage she transformed the website into the leading liberal source of information. I regularly visited the site. Arianna Huffington was succeeded by Lydia Polgreen, formerly of The New York Times, in 2015. The […]

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Bullshitters Unite

April 16, 2014 – 8:55 pm

Last week Francois Nel reported on his blog that more people work in Public Relations than as journalists. He added that the same goes for the USA and that PRs earn 40% more a year on average than journalists. Public Relations agents or flaks tell people what to think and journalist tells people their version […]

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