Sam Altman still isn’t ready for his close-up. He is trying to appeal to governments and Corporate America how powerful…
Tag: Journalism
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Newspapers Are the New Automats: Why Billionaire “Rescues” Misread a Habit Market as a Comeback
Every few years, you have a spate of silly billionaires trying to make money by “saving” journalism, which has as…
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Since when was Canada joining the EU a thing?
Until very recently, “Canada joins the European Union” belonged in speculative fiction, not on the front page. Yet in the…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
Tags: Alex Pretti, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Ellison, Deborah Cole, Donald Trump, Friedrich Merz, Germany, Israel, Jeffrey Epstein, Jessica Toonkel, Journalism, Larry Ellison, Lauren Thomas, Paramount, Propaganda, Renee Good, Russia, The Guardian, The Mind Under Siege: Mechanisms of War Propaganda, United States, Vladimir Putin, Wall Street Journal -
The Futures That Didn’t Happen, Preface: When Journalism Guesses
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…
Tags: Bari Weiss, CBS, CBS News, David Ellison, Donald Trump, Journalism, Larry Ellison, Paramount, Propaganda