Author: TarheelDem

Chicago Sun-Times Columnists, Jesse Jackson: JACKSON: To win in Alabama, Jones must create a new coalition”> Points to note: How Alabama has changed since the 1960s, starting with the Iron Bowl. The savviest...

Take the time to watch this piece-of-work all the way through.  It will clue you in to something that’s been running under the surface of the internet that mixes political adverstising (and real defamation) with a...

The so-called “market of ideas”.  And since Edward Bernays, marketing has dominated the rhetoric of the market of ideas.  And marketing depends on “consumer intelligence”, not the intelligence...

Marcy Wheeler on the challenge that Breitbart poses to the American political system only because he intends on being competitive with Rupert Murdoch. Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel: How the “Fake News” Panic Fed...

Corey Doctorow, BoingBoing: After DEFCON, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry Was the FBI not aware of his reputation and his role?  Or did he disrupt somebody’s sting?  Or somebody’s...