97th Oscars Projections: Post AFI/NBR & HCA Nominations Outlook
The awards landscape feels like a “fog of war,” as we await to see which film emerges as the favorite.
Category: Media
Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene
There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds that goes thusly: The Biden Administration has, at best, slow walked the recovery efforts to Hurricane Helene’s swath of destruction or, at worst, actively obstructed those efforts...
Russian Influence Indictment: Read It For Yourself
A federal indictment of two employees of Russia controlled RT media alleges financing of right-wing media personalities.
Donald Trump and The National Association of Black Journalists: Watch For Yourself
Former President Donald Trump and the National Association of Black Journalist were scheduled for a one-hour panel discussion. They made it 35 minutes.
Misinformation, Redefined Beyond All Meaning
The professional grifter class has added another stack to the media “misinformation” Matryoshka doll, and news media isn’t handling it well.
Trends in Social Media Commentary That Should Be Relentlessly Mocked Until They Stop
There are some social media and news media trends that need to be not only pointed out, but pointed at while mercilessly mocked.
2024 Oscars Projections: And The Oscar Goes To
And The Oscar Goes To: Luis Mendez presents his annual, final predictions for this weekend’s 96th Academy Awards ceremony.
2024 Oscars Projections: And The Nominees Are
Overall I was able to predict 92 of the 115 nominee slots available across all 23 categories – 76% correct and a personal best for me.
2024 Oscar Projections: Final Nomination Predictions
Less than a week after my last outlook into how the battle for nominations at this year’s Oscars are shaking up
2024 Oscar Projections: Pre-Televised Awards Edition
As we start hitting the homestretch of critics’ season…the thing is that every year the industry decides to throw us for a loop and do their own thing.
Elon Musk Gives In To Censorship
Twitter Files: POLITICAL CENSORSHIP! Erdogan: Help silence my political opponents before the election. Twitter: Oh-kay!
Good Riddance To Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon
It wasn’t Tucker Carlson’s dishonesty or hatemongering that led to his dismissal. CNN has not publicly commented on why Don Lemon was fired.
Reverse Causality
When it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, media warps cause and effect through misrepresentation and decontextualization.
About-faces of Consequence
My overarching question is this: Can any of these figures articulate a set of principles that they’ve embraced throughout their processes?
When the Fox News Guards the Henhouse
A court let the defamation lawsuit by Dominion and Smartmatic, two companies that make voting machines against Fox, proceed. And that’s not all.
Attack of the UFOs
To put it bluntly, these UFOs and little green men wear military fatigues rather than spacesuits.
Outrage: To Love “A Good Hate”
In these circumstances, outrage sells even better, and it seems to be a race to the bottom in terms of stoking public anger.
Longtime News Broadcaster Barbara Walters Dies at 93
A staple for TV broadcast news for most of the format’s existence, and the standard for one-on-one interviews, Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
Twitter Moves From Moderation to Free Speech And Back Again
Elon is acting like an authoritarian…But that’s okay. Twitter is still a private company. It does, however, make Musk a hypocrite.
The Revival and Crash of G4
Once online video and high-speed Internet became commonplace, G4’s reason for being largely evaporated. The internet killed G4.
