A Real Shill: The Nation’s Ari Melber
from The Rancid Honeytrap (“most interested in the intellectual policing and obstructionism at the margins by public liberals and lefts”) ..
You can look through Melber’s unbearably banal work for The Nation — which consists mostly of conformist, partisan fluff — and you won’t find one mention of SOPA, COICA, Protect IP, or the Motion Picture Association of America. In other words, Melber’s [law] clients are the beneficiaries of a helpful silence. Remember the huge web blackout to protest SOPA? The Nation’s ‘net movement correspondent’ didn’t write about it. Remember when former Senator and MPAA CEO Chris Dodd blasted congress people for taking MPAA money and not delivering votes? Melber didn’t write about that either
yes the corporate ‘left’ needs to be called out – glad i found this blog (h/t Naked Capitalism) – mab .. read more
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