Noam Chomsky Excavates the George Will Memory Hole
In a blog post about how it must have been "So Much Nicer To Be George Will Before The Internet" (2/17/09), A Tiny Revolution's Jonathan Schwarz looks back over how "on Sunday George Will made things...
View ArticleGlimpsing Journalism's 'Devouring Black Hole of Corruption'
A Tiny Revolution blogger Jonathan Schwarz (4/18/09) samples the response to Mike Allen of Politico's quote of "a former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush" calling the...
View ArticlePol 'Thugs' Think Twice in Age of Internet Media
Sure that Andrew Sullivan "would be horrified" by the idea that he and Cindy Sheehan agree on anything, Jonathan Schwarz nonetheless quotes (A Tiny Revolution, 4/25/09) the Atlantic.com blogger's...
View ArticleNon-Disclosure: A Way of Life at the Washington Post
Jonathan Schwarz recently caught the Washington Post crediting the author of an anti-progressive tax op-ed as just "an economics professor," when in fact he sat on tax-funded bailout beneficiary "AIG's...
View ArticleBilly Graham Gets Cleaned Up by CBS
Blogger Jonathan Schwarz (A Tiny Revolution, 6/24/09) has noted that when "CBS ran a story about the latest batch of Nixon tapes made public… they included a section of a February 21, 1973 conversation...
View ArticleNYT Reports Honduras (Opponent Opinions) From Afar
Looking at a June 28 New York Times report that the "Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup," A Tiny Revolution blogger Bernard Chazelle (6/28/09) writes that "from the byline alone, you know this is...
View ArticleMSM Still Ignoring Bank Bailout Alternatives
A Tiny Revolution blogger Jonathan Schwarz (7/9/09) has posted a reminder that "back in March Phillip Swagel, who'd been assistant treasury secretary under Hank Paulson, wrote a long article about the...
View ArticleOn the Limits of 'Reports and Facts' vs Propaganda
Viewing "two excellent pieces by the American News Project about the Fed's astonishing actions during the current meltdown," A Tiny Revolution's Jonathan Schwarz (7/12/09) confirms that "ANP does great...
View ArticleBonuses vs. Starvation at the New York Times
A Tiny Revolution blogger Bernard Chazelle (8/2/09) thinks it's possible that "people fail to appreciate how tough it is to run the government." As evidence, he offers "two questions Treasury officials...
View ArticlePBS Sells 'Prime Demographic Groups to Underwriters'
A Tiny Revolution's John Caruso (9/5/09) caught an instance of the Public Broadcasting System "Putting the 'BS' in PBS" when they recently "took a break to blandish us thusly: 'If you are seeking a...
View ArticleMore 'News' from WaPo's 'Exciting Alternate Universe'
Under the headline "Washington Post Publishes More Information About Exciting Alternate Universe," A Tiny Revolution blogger Jonathan Schwarz (9/13/09) lets us know that, while "lots of banks had to...
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