Oliver Willis

The so-called liberal media strikes again, hiring a former Bush aide to report on President Obama.

Continued proof that Lanny Davis is a very stupid person:
Lou proves it is possible to disagree agreeably. An important standard for other talk show hosts to keep in mind.
Here’s some of Dobbs’ agreeable (to Lanny Davis) rhetoric:
Dobbs says caller makes a “good point” in suggesting American Muslim soldiers must be “thoroughly screened”
Dobbs runs with debunked [...]

If I were a newspaper person operating on line versus Rupert Murdoch I would be laughing and salivating over his plans to charge and remove them from Google. That’s essentially a plan to make News Corp. irrelevant. This is a digital strategy from the people who have completely failed with MySpace.

I’m inclined to think that Comcast shouldn’t be allowed to effectively buy NBC, but I certainly think that it’s a big test of the Obama administration’s FCC in regards to what they will demand the companies divest to make the deal go through. We’ve got way too much consolidated media as is (much of it [...]

Fox Business channel missed the biggest business news story of the day – Warren Buffet buying Burlington Northern – because they were busy running Imus’ show. What a joke.

So here’s the problem, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch puts himself on an ethics horse lecturing about the shady practices of the companies promoting games on social networking sites. Now, Arrington may be right on the money here but he is at best a flawed messenger. The guy who published stolen internal documents from Twitter isn’t [...]

A chart tracks newspaper circulation over the last two decades. Not good.

CNN is now in fourth place, losing to Fox, MSNBC, and even its sister station HLN. CNN could stake out a place as the fact checker to liberal opinion on MSNBC and right wing opinion on Fox, rather than its current state of pablum… but I doubt they will.