The Hack Gap Is Hard at Work Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today, the LA Times presents a great example of the hack gap. They invited a conservative and a liberal to make a list of the top 10 under-covered stories of the year. Adam Johnson, a media analyst for FAIR, mostly wrote about things that genuinely…
Will Republicans Ever Get Disgusted by Donald Trump’s Open Bigotry?
C-SPAN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Politico’s Susan Glasser did a podcast last week with Max Boot and Eliot Cohen, both of whom are Republican foreign policy hawks deeply disturbed by the election of Donald Trump. But Boot is clear-eyed enough to see that the biggest damage Trump is doing…
Quote of the Day: Boarding Pass Scanners Are Just “Beedoop Machines”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday’s big social media event was a series of tweets from supermodel Chrissy Teigen, who was on board an ANA flight to Tokyo when it suddenly turned around and headed back to Los Angeles. The reason, it turned out, was a manifest problem: the plane…
New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Guess what? There’s another lead-crime study out! You can feel the excitement, can’t you? But this time there’s a twist: it’s a prospective study of data from Dunedin, New Zealand’s fourth-largest city, and the accompanying press release says bluntly, “We found no clear indication that…
Nursing Homes Violate the Rules a Lot. Trump’s Answer: Get Rid of the Rules.
Sebastian Willnow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The LA Times reports that nursing homes are cesspools of infection: A Kaiser Health News analysis of four years of federal inspection records shows 74% of nursing homes have been cited for lapses in infection control — more than for any…
Bitcoin Trading Sure Is Volatile
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was puttering around this morning looking at the latest price for bitcoin, and I happened to switch over from a chart of closing prices to a box-and-whisker plot. Here’s what it looks like: Two things jump out at me. First, trading this week—and for…