Tag: Rudy Giuliani
Sheldon Adelson, 87, has died
Sheldon Adelson was very good to me and to my family. But that’s not what made him a giant of a man. What made him special, maybe even unique in the annals of American business, was the sheer force of...
Michael Bloomberg Calls California a ‘Model’ for the Rest of the Country
At a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday, former New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg announced that California would serve as a model for running the country should he become president. “I think that California...
Adam Schiff is a ‘Low Rent Clown’ Says Opponent Eric Early
Republican congressional candidate Eric Early says Rep. Adam Schiff has passed his prime and needs to be ousted. “The IG report painted Schiff as the total liar he is,” Eric Early told the California Globe. “He thinks he is morally...
Three Personal Interactions with the Media’s Darkest Two Years
If you heard a primal scream emanating from 22nd Street yesterday, that was me reading the Vanity Fair headline “The Hard Truths and High Cost of the RussiaGate Scandal.” We have endured a ton of awful reporting over the last...
Adam Schiff Is Blindly Credulous toward Website’s Debunked ‘Scoop’
News stories spark congressional investigations all the time. But whoever heard of a discredited news story sparking an investigation about charges that were already debunked by the person charged with investigating them? Probably nobody until the era of Donald Trump,...
Evolution of a Fake News Notion
Fake news isn’t always about outright lies or intentional omissions. There are matters of nuance and degree, as well. Back when there were real people making judgments about how to package stories—these people were known as “editors”—one of the major...