Someone has to remind everyone that journalism is dead in the U.S. FAIR does a good job combating the spin, but has far too small a readership to make a significant difference.

All the quotes from articles have a link to the them and add to this devastating indictment of the Media

The article does a good job at debunking many of the stereotypes associated with immigrant students. Metrics are constantly misused and gamed in corporate America. It has always mystified me that people put so much confidence in those metrics.

Given the complete lack of any significant reform after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), we live in Ayn Rand's America today. Ayn Rand's America is an oligarchy. The Citizens United ruling shows that the wealthy controls the Judicial branch. The lack of any indictments of the huge banks which caused the GFC shows that the wealthy controls the Executive branch and the bailouts themselves show how much control the wealthy has over the Legislative branch.

Lessig builds a very solid case for reform for how campaigns are financed.

This article goes to the heart of the problems with establishment journalism. Too many corporate journalists are fooled into using hard-core ideologues as objective experts.

The Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, Professor William K. Black, fact checks Obama's answers to the 60 Minutes' correspondent's weak line of questions relating to the Obama Administrations actions in the wake of the Financial Crisis.

This article makes unsupported assumptions about just how to interpret what a national deficit really is. The article assumes that anything which causes the Federal government to have to pay interest on Treasury Bonds contributes to the Federal deficit. From a certain point of view, this may be true. But if true, anyone who has Treasury Bonds in their 401K is contributing to the federal deficit. The best propaganda is true from a certain point of view.

Reporting on new and novel methods of commerce is very news worthy.