The Dogs Aren’t Barking Again
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Category: Journalism!
Misinformation, anger, hate, lies, and racism
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Readers of this blog already know that Tucker Carlson and Fox News parted ways Monday evening because you’re both pretty well-informed people. Readers of this blog also knew the how the Danish news media would cover such an event long before it hit the wires. (You also knew they wouldn’t cover the simultaneous parting of…
Why do bad things always happen to Democrats?
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Suffering people deserve our compassion and mercy. As an 89-year-old woman in a relatively advanced state of dementia, recently hospitalized for shingles, Diane Feinstein is certainly seem entitled at least that much. But only as an 89-year-old woman. As California’s senior representative in the U.S. Senate, however, she deserves nothing but our contempt. After all,…
“Gentlemen, congratulations. You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of J-school training.”
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The coverage is everywhere. So are the hot takes. I have no coverage to offer and I don’t do hot takes. A New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump yesterday and the indictment is sealed. That means we don’t know what he’s been charged with. We’re told that Trump’s attorneys have been in communication with…
Twofer Thursday! Mind virus makes landfall in Denmark and TV2 News serves its American ideological overlords
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Denmark has until now been spared the worst excesses of the culture war underway in America, but the Rubicon has been crossed. Fort Sumter has been fired upon. The Archduke has been assassinated. It’s here. I had actually thought Denmark had a stronger immune system. I thought we might have some kind of natural immunity…
More rotten fruit from the same rotten tree
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Substack Note: there’s new content over at Nagan of Copenhagen, including a lengthy article featuring a substantive interview with the apparently uber-woke ChatGPT. Anyone who’s followed this blog for any length of time knows that Berlingske Tidende’s U.S. correspondent Mikkel Danielsen might as well be a paid shill for the Democratic National Committee. I’ve chronicled…
Danmarks Radio and Gell-Mann Amnesia
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First, a quick reminder of Michael Crichton’s Gell-Mann Amnesia phenomenon: Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or…
Interesting questions about—look, a squirrel!
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Today, Tuesday, Berlingske finally got around to reporting on the “Twitter Files” that were released Friday evening. I wrote a couple of quick posts over the weekend anticipating the Danish coverage. (Here and here.) You can go back to the those if you have no idea what I’m talking about. And here’s what we’ve got…
Journalisming Again
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(No audio for this because it’s just a quick observation. An expression of annoyance.) As anyone with any interest in the fate of free speech in the western world surely knows, on Friday night Matt Taibbi began releasing “the Twitter Files”—mostly internal corporate communications from Twitter that provide irrefutable evidence of the social medium’s interference…
Twitter Refugees: Out of the frying pan, into the other frying pan which is on fire along with the whole kitchen
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AUDIO NOTE: The audio experiment continues, and there’s always lots of bonus content in the audio—also a lot of fun mispronunciations, word bobbles, and the occassional unexpected background noise. That’s what makes it an experiment rather than a smooth and polished production. Today, for example, keen listeners may detect the occasional background shriek from youngest—even…
Now he tells us.
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Mikkel Danielsen strikes again—with a headline that shouts: “Duck!” The Republicans have Hunter Biden’s dirty hard drive. Now they’re throwing it at the presidentMikke Danielsen, Berlingske.dk, November 18 (The story was published Friday, but it was a busy weekend.) Before I dig into Danielsen’s gaslight-a-palooza, I should state clearly that I’m going to be neutral…
The sweet wine of sour grapes
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This post is mostly (but not entirely) about small things. Trivial, even. I subscribe to the “Morning Briefing” email of the New York Times. It hits my inbox at around 7:00 weekday mornings, which I find impressive—that’s 1:00 in the morning, New York time. That’s the only impressive thing about it. Otherwise, its only real…
BREAKING: Opinion host caught expressing unauthorized opinions
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It’s commonly believed that on September 26—more than three weeks ago—the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged. Three weeks isn’t a lot of time in most circumstances, but in warfare it’s an eternity: time enough to fight the whole Six Day War three times and take a long weekend. New Yorkers woke up to a beautiful…
Gossip
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