The indictment of Michael Sussmann sheds new light on the outrageous pre-election activities of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, which have a familiar ring…
Jeffrey Toobin Dick Slip Scandal, Explained in New Yorker Cartoons and CNN Chyrons…
CNN took a more old-fashioned approach to the sexual-harassment incident: pretending it never happened and granting Toobin’s request for “time off while he deals with a personal issue.”…
Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism” by Glenn Greenwald…
The New York Times’ recently hired media columnist Ben Smith, who spent the previous nine years as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News as it grew into a media behemoth, did something Sunday night that very few other U.S. journalists would be willing to do: He published an unflinching and sometimes scathing critique of former-MSNBC-daytime-host-turned-widely-beloved-New-Yorker-star-investigative-reporter Ronan Farrow…
Here Is How the Steele Dossier Spread Through the Media and Government…
Court documents released last week in a lawsuit involving the Steele dossier revealed new details about the campaign to disseminate the infamous anti-Trump report to the press and within the U.S. government. Much was already known about Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele’s efforts to seed the dossier with reporters and government officials. Fusion […]
Whitewash – The ‘Last Bastion Of Freedom’ Is an Al-Qaeda Infested Town…
This week the New Yorker published a long piece on Saraqib, a town in Idleb governorate in Syria. Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom – Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive? The piece tells us that, despite […]
’60 Minutes’ Producer Out Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations…
Hours after “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager claimed that his termination Wednesday stemmed from a text message he’d sent to a CBS reporter, the contents of the message were divulged by the network. Earlier Wednesday, CBS News president David Rhodes announced in a memo to staffers that Fager would be “leaving the company effective […]
‘Designing Women’ Creator Goes Public with Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual…
Whoa Nellie: John McCain Associate Wanted Senator to ‘Confront’ Trump with Steele Dossier, Make Him Resign…
An extensive New Yorker profile cites a former national-security official claiming that a longtime associate of John McCain sent by the Arizona senator to obtain the infamous anti-Trump dossier hatched a plan whereby McCain would use the document to confront President Donald Trump and get him to resign. David J. Kramer, a former State Department […]
Why Harvey Weinstein Turned to Israeli Intelligence Veterans to Suppress His Sex Abuse Accusers…
In a bid to suppress some of the revelations of his flagrant acts of sexual harassment and abuse, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein contracted a private Israeli intelligence firm called Black Cube to spy on his accusers. Black Cube arranged for a female former Israeli soldier and actress named Stella Penn Pechanac to trick actress and […]