The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Has Barrett Brown Scammed NBC News?

In-freaking-credible! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Barrett Brown is either, as Michael Isikoff reports, “an underground commander in a new kind of warfare” — a member of a criminal conspiracy who should be under arrest — or else he’s one of the most successful hoaxers in recent memory. […]

Comcast ‘Presumptuous and Arrogant’

No, it’s not somebody complaining about their cable bill. It’s federal regulators talking about the NBC takeover: Comcast is still in negotiations with the government over its proposed takeover of NBC Universal, but that did not stop the cable company from announcing a new management slate for the entertainment giant last week. That announcement displeased […]

Rachel Maddow and the Politics of Stupid

Why hasn’t the American public completely repudiated the policies of the Obama administration? At a time when the unemployment rate has been hovering near 10 percent for nearly a year, Obama’s job approval numbers are very near dead even, and Republicans are just barely leading on the generic ballot. Why isn’t the administration’s abject failure on economic issues more […]

The Propaganda of Omission

“When the liberal radio network Air America debuted on March 31, 2004, NBC trumpeted it as the ‘counterweight’ to the ‘right-wing bent’ of talk radio. Katie Couric enthused that Al Franken and his colleagues hoped ‘to break into what has been a conservative lock on the radio.’ However, when the beleaguered Air America announced bankruptcy […]

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