A little over two years ago, I posted something here about lay-offs at MLive. Well, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, it looks as though the beleaguered online news entity might be cutting even more jobs tomorrow morning, when John Hiner, the Vice President of Content for MLive Media Group, is going […]
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According to a source, MLive will be restructuring yet again tomorrow morning, laying-off up to a dozen more reporters
Posted in Ann Arbor, Media, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor News, John Hiner, journalism, layoffs, Live, Newhouse Newspapers, Paula Gardner, the future of journalism, the press, threats to Democracy 27 Comments
Declaring “(Donald Trump) has been tougher on Russia than Obama was in the past eight years combined,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders achieves ‘maximum gaslight’ status, qualifying herself for a position in the Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Hall of Fame
Maybe I’m just imagining it, but I’m getting the sense, watching video of today’s White House press briefing, that we’ve finally crossed some kind of line. It’s like it’s collectively started to dawn on members of the White House Press Corps that, if the kids in Parkland can stand up and push back, them, maybe, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, coined phrases, collusion, election hacking, election meddling, gaslight, gun control, Jon Karl, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Hall of Fame, lies, Obama, obstruction of justice, Parkland, propaganda, Republican lies, rule of law, rule of truth, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the future of journalism, Vladimir Putin, White House Press Corps 5 Comments
Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker on why his paper won’t be calling Trump’s lies “lies”
Continuing our conversation from before Christmas about how the press intends to cover the lies of President Trump, I wanted to share the following quote from this past weekend’s episode of the Meet the Press. This is how Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker responded to a question posed by Chuck Todd about how aggressively, […]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized Also tagged birther, coal mining, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, future of journalism, Gerard Baker, Glenn Kessler, Greg Sargent, journalism, lies, Meet the Press, normalization, pizzagate, PolitiFact, post-truth, racism, the future of journalism, the press, truth, Wall Street Journal 5 Comments