War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
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When an Oracle doesn’t see the future
The Ellisons have more luck than brains. That is the hallmark of most Western billionaires. Modern culture does not reward…
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The Bari Weiss–CBS Disaster: A Media Industry Post-Mortem
A data-driven analysis for media industry professionals Executive Summary The appointment of Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News was…
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The Bari Weiss Experiment Was Never About Journalism
Bari Weiss at CBS was sold as a daring editorial pivot, but it was never about journalism. It was about…
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Bari Weiss’s Slide into Oblivion Continues
Pandering to an aging, vocal minority who already have their own safe space was always a stupid idea. Bari Weiss…
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Netflix Dodges a Bullet
Netflix dodged a bullet. When it declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros., it sidestepped the same curse that…
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Bari Weiss’s “Hands-On Meeting” Apparently Involves Stepping in Every Cow Flap in the Field
Under Bari Weiss, the “C” in CBS News stands for Cringe. The Daily Beast’s article on this train wreck is…
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The CBS News Cringefest Continues
Reading about CBS News’s “all hands” (but no brain) meeting was hilarious. That Bari Weiss thinks she can lure “the…
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Looking for Empires in all the Wrong Places, Part One
The problem with empire-building is that it comes down to parasites looking for established entities to subjugate. Everything is both…
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The Ghost of WTTG: Why David Ellison’s CBS Takeover Will Fail
David Ellison thinks he can remake CBS News into a conservative outlet by installing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and purging…