Cooling Centers
Providence and Woonsocket have opened libraries, pools and water parks for anyone who needs to cool down. Weather.com predicts a high of 97. Still and humid besides. If you are able to postpone any of your driving, consider it a public service. Likewise yardwork and chores. I’m trying to get my visits done early because [...]
Murdoch’s Australian Media Empire
That power corrupts is old news. A big public show with some bad apples in jail, followed by business as usual is the easiest way out. News Corp shares are up, so stockholders must feel reassured that nothing will really change. Murdoch got his start in Australia, and some politicians there are asking the important [...]
New App Measures News Bias
I wonder how Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network news would rate on this? A new app takes the labor out of counting word use on network news. From Reuters, today… Ever wanted to know how biased Fox News and CNN really are? A new OS X app called News Mapper helps you to find out [...]
Brooks’ Hair Sends Tangled Message
I bust my brain writing insightful and original commentary, and except for you few loyal readers I get hardly any hits– until this week. I wrote that Rebekah Brooks has really good hair and I’m off the charts (compared to my average, that is.) I take hair very seriously, so I noticed right away that [...]
Too Funny
This post from Jill at Feministe. Follow her link, but not at work if you don’t want to be caught laughing out loud.
Murdoch Lawyers-Up in the USA
News Corp is getting ready for a powerful defense in the US… Rupert Murdoch is assembling a team of US lawyers with expertise in fighting large federal criminal cases, suggesting he is readying himself for a bitter legal battle in America as a result of the phone-hacking scandal. At the centre of the team is [...]
Murdoch Whistleblower Found Dead
Not suspicious. Sean Hoare was known to be a drug user. But there is a back story… As a showbusiness reporter, he had lived what he was happy to call a privileged life. But the reality had ruined his physical health: “I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get [...]
The Plot Thickens
Today’s New York Times reports that Murdoch News of the World lieutenant Rebekah Brooks has been arrested. A police statement did not identify her by name but said a 43-year-old woman had been detained for questioning by officers investigating both the phone-hacking scandal and payments made to corrupt police officers. A News International official, speaking [...]
Murdoch Culture of Fear
The News is now the story. Today’s Reuters has a special report on the cynical, money-grubbing burn-out work culture at News of the World. Rebekah Brooks created a macho organization where reporters competed for the sleaziest sources… “We used to talk to career criminals all the time. They were our sources,” says another former reporter [...]
Debt Limit
I listen to the radio while I’m driving from house to house, and I often hear callers compare the national debt to household debt. You don’t borrow more money when you already owe, you cut expenses. Very common-sense for a household, but what would you say about a family that makes some of its children [...]
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