Journalism likes to pretend it is allergic to prediction. Reporters will tell you they deal in facts, not crystal balls.…
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Billionaires buy stupid things because they buy their own hype first.
Billionaires buy a lot of stupid things, but the dumbest thing they buy is their own hype. Narcissism blinds. They…
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Economic Terrorism: A Primer
Don’t kid yourself: the “inflation” and Iran War have very little to do with why you are being fleeced as…
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What Is an Article Actually Worth?
In the current fight between publishers and AI companies, the article is treated as a sacred atom of value. Each…
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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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Jeff Bezos’s Parasitic Frankenstein Dark Factory Gambit
When your legacy newspaper is bleeding millions, it is time to focus your energy on making dark factories. Of course,…
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The Spectacular Failure of Trumpaganda
It’s not working. But Capt. Cody Khork still paid for it with his life. The countries Donald Trump terrorized with…
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Donald Trump: Desperate Men Stoop to Desperate Nincompoopity.
Donald Trump is terrified. He’s also desperate. He sounds unhinged because he finally understands something: all his best tricks and…