We all know what news is. But do you know what’s never news? When someone in the news, tells you the truth about the news.

Lara Logan, who was a foreign correspondent for CBS News until leaving last year, was interviewed for a podcast by author and former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland.

"And the media everywhere is mostly liberal,” Logan said. “But in this country, 85 percent of journalists are registered Democrats. So that’s just a fact, right?”

“There’s one Fox,” Logan added. “And there’s many, many, many more organizations on the left. But the problem is that the weight of all of these organizations on one side of the political spectrum. When you turn your computer or you walk past the TV… if they are all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it’s true. You don’t question it because everyone is saying it.”

“I didn’t even notice that there was a bias in the media,” Logan said. “You read one story after another or hear it and it’s all based on one anonymous administration official, former administration official, right? I mean, that not, that’s not journalism. That’s horse----."

I could listen to that for hours. For us, this is an obvious truth. Yet the voice of the hive is so pervasive, it goes unheard, except we just heard her loud and clear. You already know what the media's thinking: FNC is going to eat this up. You’re right! So what?

Because whenever the emperor’s new clothes are exposed, don't expect the emperor to tell you about it. The conformist media will sweep this under a rug, so it’s up to us to burn that rug, even if it’s on top of Chuck Todd's head.

For decades the mainstream media defended its bias, saying they aren't liberally biased, just truth biased – and of course, the truth is always liberal. Which is funny, because we've lost count how many times the media's been dead wrong on so many things. From defending terrible institutions to reanimating bad ideas – the only reason they never get called out, is because they run the "calling out" business. And so the ideas they love – born from teachers’ lounges and safe spaces – continue to harm us, and there’s no speedbump in sight.

So forgive us if we find Logan refreshing. She told you what you know already: the media are about conflict – so there can only be two sides: the consensus among them, and the marginalized you. And all those ad dollars, which back the consensus, that keep rolling in. The profit model for the news division, isn't news – its division.

Which is why in news there is no nuance. When it's embarrassing, there's not even news!

It’s either their side, or the downside.

BREAKING NEWS: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST EXCESSIVE CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURES
by Kevin Ryan

The Supreme Court this morning has ruled in favor of a man whose $42,000 Land Rover SUV was seized as part of a civil asset forfeiture. The justices ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s clause against excessive fines does apply to state and local governments.

The Congresswoman Loves the Swamp

Her Wealthy Chief of Staff used a PAC to Pay Her Boyfriend

Last Friday, my mentions died for your sins. I posted a screen grab of Riley Roberts’s House Microsoft Outlook card, including his official house.gov email address, office phone number, and his designation as “Staff”. Roberts is the boyfriend of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Congresswoman was upset.

Throwing caution to the wind, she stormed into my mentions, asserting this was just a way to give Mr. Roberts access to her official calendar.

Her Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, soon followed, reiterating the calendar claim and accusing me of doxxing Mr. Roberts by posting his publicly available LinkedIn profile (which he deleted) and his official government address and the office phone number.

Neither AOC nor Chakrabarti said why Roberts needs access to her official calendar.

Regardless, hordes of her howling minions followed. I was briefly suspended by Twitter for revealing personal information, only to be released with an apology when I pointed out that everything I posted is government property and public.



My Parole Papers

My brief stint as a digital political prisoner turned into something of a cause célèbre on the right, inviting wave upon wave of MAGA-enthusiasts to battle back on my behalf against the forces of digital socialism. My timeline is still a wasteland.

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Per the House Admin office, a family member can, in special circumstances, get a house.gov email address. But Roberts is not a family member, and although AOC referred to him as her partner in November of last year, she omitted him from her mandatory candidate financial disclosures for 2017 and 2018. Perhaps they’ve gotten married since. If so — if he is her spouse now — we should see his finances disclosed along with hers in her 2019 disclosure form due in May. But to be clear, AOC did not disclose Roberts’s finances as a spouse during her campaign.

Regardless, absent a wavier from House Ethics, family members have to be volunteers. AOC’s office apparently doesn’t believe in having unpaid workers, as according to Chakrabarti they have no volunteers in the office.

So Roberts is designated as staff but also isn’t on AOC’s staff, even though he showed up Friday morning in the House directory as processing into her personal office as a staffer. In other words his staff status, like his spouse status, is akin to Schrodinger’s cat.


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Finally, all of the above is based on public information. It took me a couple of hours to pull it all together and write it up. I suppose this could be called muckraking, but it’s really just minimal reporting that nobody in the press decided to do. I can’t emphasize enough how easy it was to find all of this information. It’s literally just sitting there. But no reporter bothered to read it. Democracy dies in darkness? Nah. Reporters are just lazy