Yes, Lance, you really do take great notes.

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From CJR, a look at what the business press did and didn’t do as the economy headed to the tack. (Or, as Sherlock Holmes fans might say, “The Dog That Didn’t Bark.”)

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Would the CIA actually lie to us about the torture briefings? Who would have ever suspected such a thing, sez I.

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An interview with Joe Bageant.

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What Glenn said. Happens All. The. Time.

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Way to build that readership! Keep up the good work on that whole “normalizing torture” thing!
P.S. Yeah, I know Tierney probably made you do it.
Love,
SG

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MoDo thinks by pretending she doesn’t read blogs that she can get away with stealing from one of them. She’s been hanging around the Beltway too long.

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If this goes through, this is very, very good news indeed:
At 66, David Geffen has amassed a fortune that Forbes estimates at $4.5 billion in its annual list of the global megawealthy. The Hollywood impresario, one of the world’s most prescient investors, has scored mammoth returns in art and hedge funds, having cashed out of [...]

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Editorial:
From the Abu Ghraib scandal on, the public has been battered by countless wrenching snapshots of small numbers of U.S. troops mistreating prisoners. The images have been shown and exploited as examples of Ugly America across the world. Never mind that the guilty were punished.
Dear NY Daily News,
The guilty weren’t punished. That’s why we want [...]

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To Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler, who received the Hillman Foundation’s journalism award. Marcy falls into that rare group of journalists whose work I peruse and say, “How the hell did she see that?” She’s amazing.
A really good way to congratulate her is to donate money so she can do this full-time.

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Go read Glenn.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, long a ‘liberal’ paper, underwent some changes a few years ago when they (and the Philadelphia Daily News) were purchased by the Philadelphia Media Holdings. The new publisher was Brien Tierney, a well-known Republican media strategist. (Until then, Tierney was best known to Philadelphians for his aggressive media defense of local Catholic [...]

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Go watch Larry King’s interview with former pro wrestler, governor and Navy Seal Jesse Ventura. Really good! Wonder how long it will be before he’s invited back…

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I was reading this critique of Eric Boehlert’s new book by Anglachel, and it reminded me of something I’d thought earlier today: I can’t believe that only a few bloggers have reviewed the book to date.
I mean, this is Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, author of the very popular “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled [...]

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Fuck NPR. Really.
I am far too often reminded that people in general lack empathy, which is in itself a failure of imagination. The fact that so few people can imagine themselves in Elizabeth Edwards’ exact place shows a degree of rigidity (and denial) that I simply can’t fathom.

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Via Democracy Now!, David Simon, former Baltimore Sun reporter and creator of the HBO series “The Wire,” testified Wednesday at a Senate hearing on the future of journalism. He warned that “high-end journalism is dying in America.”
“And unless a new economic model is achieved, it will not be reborn on the web or anywhere else. [...]

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My buddy Mike really pisses off a news anchor:

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In response to the L.A. Times’ Michael Hiltzik saying that “someone needs to stand up” for the credit card companies, Matt lets the media have it:
“Someone needs to stand up” for the credit card companies? Did I hear that right, Michael Hiltzik?
Apparently it is not enough that the credit card companies have spent $15.5 million [...]

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Dean Baker (h/t J.S.):
The housing bubble was fed in part by incredibly bad economic reporting. Reporters should have been reporting on little else since the bubble was so obviously far more important than anything else taking place in the business/economic arena in the years 2002-2207. However, as we know, the vast majority of reporters slavishly [...]

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What the media did to help.

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Link here.

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A certain foul-mouthed female blogger you may know is quoted at length in Eric Boehlert’s new book.

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Cuts one-third of their newsroom:
The Baltimore Sun has cut its newsroom staff by nearly a third in a reorganization the company said would help it not just survive but succeed in one of the worst economic downturns in decades.
The news company, whose parent Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December, laid off 61 [...]

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A couple of points about this reassuring L.A. Times article on the swine flu:
As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — [...]

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Here.
I had it on in the background but I wasn’t really paying attention. I did catch the part where he made it clear that women’s reproductive rights aren’t a current priority but placating the anti-choice movement is (believe it or not, Mr. President, an unwanted pregnancy is a pretty big economic crisis for most women):
MR. [...]

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I’m reading this Russ Baker book about the Bush family, and I have to say, Family of Secrets is pretty damned persuasive. Of course, the Villagers have done their usual thing by ridiculing the author (who’s a respected independent journalist) and marginalizing the book, but for anyone who thinks the Villagers are offering us anything [...]

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It’s such a cozy little place!

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Julia explains it all to MoDo - and it isn’t pretty.

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What Athenae said.

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