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Written by Gary North on August 7, 2013
The general estimate is that Drudge’s site, run by two people, is worth about what Bezos paid for The Washington Post: $250 million. It may be worth more. He owns all of it. Drudge is a conservative. The liberal reporters who dismissed Drudge as an amateur back in 1998, when he scooped the industry with […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 6, 2013
The big story on the morning of June 5 was that the New York Times Company sold the Boston Globe for a paltry $70 million. It had paid $1.1 billion in 1993, which was worth $1.76 billion in today’s money. That afternoon, the bombshell hit: the Graham family is selling The Washington Post for a […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 6, 2013
All over the world, the mainstream media have used the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing to make comments on fears regarding peaceful nuclear power. The killing of 70,000 people was an act of war. Nuclear power is peaceful. But the mainstream media are far more opposed to nuclear power than nuclear weapons. They never […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 5, 2013
The New York Times is often referred to as the gray lady, famous for its abundance of words over photos and its bland, boring prose. These days, there is so much red ink at the Times that it ought to be called the pink lady, at the very least. Conservatives have thought it should have […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 5, 2013
If anyone has any doubts that Edward Snowden personally blew a hole in the dam of the U.S. government’s surveillance state, consider this article on Bloomberg. This is a conventional media site. It is mainstream to the core. Yet here is what it has reported. Imagine the government passed a law requiring all citizens to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 25, 2013
There is a series on the trial on the Backwoods Home blog site that you should read, if you are interested in the trial. Sadly, the links are not easy to access. You must start with the latest link and work backwards, click by click. There is no easy series of links: Part 1, Part […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 25, 2013
There is diplomatic hell: extradition to the USA. There is diplomatic heaven: Venezuela. Then there is diplomatic purgatory: the Moscow airport. That is where Edward Snowden is said to live. Nobody has seen where he lives. We are never told that. Reporters do not raise the question any longer. They haven’t for three weeks. He […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 24, 2013
This headline appeared on the MarketWatch site. BEIJING (Caixin Online) — The monetary policies of major economies are diverging for the first time since 2008. The euro zone, Britain and Japan are sustaining quantitative easing, while the United States, China and other major emerging economies are on a tightening path. Here is the most recent […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 9, 2013
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Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 3, 2013
CNBC is sometimes referred to as “Tout TV.” All day long, it features people talking about investing. It is noted for a show called Squawk Box, which is a pretty good description of the show. It is noisy. The whole network is noisy. Ratings for the network have collapsed. They are down to where they […]
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