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Newspapers sue Sacramento sheriff for refusing to release records

January 25, 2019 4:01 pmJanuary 26, 2019 9:17 am

The Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Times have filed a lawsuit against Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones for refusing to comply with a California Public Records Act request for records related to sheriff’s deputies employed by his agency. The lawsuit,...

Adam Schiff Is Blindly Credulous toward Website’s Debunked ‘Scoop’

January 21, 2019 11:21 amJanuary 23, 2019 6:06 am

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,...

Maxine Waters Dictates Policy to CBS News

January 17, 2019 9:13 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

Is there a black way and a white way to cover political campaigns? California Representative Maxine Waters seems to think so. Waters yesterday conferred with top CBS News officials following tweeted complaints from her and other luminaries that CBS News...

Hedge Fund Media Group Offer to Buy Gannett

January 14, 2019 12:24 pmJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

At least one-third of the largest newspapers across the United States experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018, according to the Pew Research Center. Monday, reports of MNG Enterprises, backed by a New York hedge-fund, announced it made an...

California Globe Hires Veteran Journalist Katy Grimes as Editor

January 2, 2019 9:00 amJanuary 4, 2019 3:32 pm

Investigative Journalist Katy Grimes joins California Globe as Editor, January 1, 2019. Grimes is a longtime investigative political journalist, analyst, and author, and reports on the California Legislature and politics from the State Capitol in Sacramento. Grimes has been published...

CNN Analyst Enten Still Hyping Kamala Presidential Prospects

December 31, 2018 8:15 amJanuary 4, 2019 3:24 pm

In 2015, Harry Enten was one of the many astute prognosticators who assured America that Donald Trump would not be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee. His story for 538.com titled “Why Donald Trump Isn’t A Real Candidate” helpfully explained in June...

Airbnb Threatens Journalist for Reporting on Company’s Racism

December 21, 2018 11:47 amDecember 28, 2018 11:11 am

Since its founding a decade ago, Airbnb has frequently been accused of racism. A 2015 Harvard Business School study concluded that “guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White...