"I also suggested that as long as hard-working, courageous, idealistic and responsible journalists and reporters remain willfully ignorant of the corporatization of news, and allow and accept equal billing with loud-mouthed shills, spitting deliberate provocations in an increasingly divisive substitution of content for discontent, the remaining shreds of nobility in the profession of journalism will be irreparably damaged and news will forever be defined by shallow attempts to generate ratings… [read post]

George Tucker III Research Professor George Washington University Lynne L. [read post]

E-mails sent from Bouvier to Mikhail Sazonov, Rybolovlev’s former financial officer, reveal that Bouvier was creating these “negotiations” from thin air.[31] In 2018, Rybolovlev filed a civil suit in the Southern District of New York against Sotheby’s for allegedly aiding and abetting Bouvier to defraud Rybolovlev through alleged appraisals and inflation of the work’s prices.[32] In November of 2023, Judge Jesse M. [read post]