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News about the status of the website. Latest update. Because of Robert's abrupt departure, I am worried about what will happen when we encounter catastrophic failures,  which are inevitably inevitable.  …

A quick question about the ordering of comments. Most Recent First or Oldest First. Which do you think works better.

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I have wondered, is there something wrong with the way I think about things, or was I just in some sort of a rut.  Did I do this while speaking?

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Why am I on Facebook, having interminable conversations about ecology, climate, politics and economics that end up going around in circles

The fact that the racism in the comment may have been unintended doesn't make it any less racist...

I was 10 years old in 1956. The media ecosystem we had back then was clearly superior to what 5th graders are exposed to today.

Step by step instructions for creating a live link to an image in an article...just like Facebook

"The teenager who sparked a global movement with her video of George Floyd's final moments will receive a prestigious award Tuesday night for her courage."

I am not a fan of san serif typefaces, which puts me at odds with most web designers today, so I want to make the case for semi-serif and full-serif …

This isn't a singular occurrence. Google News does this all the time and it is time that someone called them out for it. I just did but you can, too. …

A workaround for problems tracking comments back to articles and a question about the location of the comments section on the home page

When it started publishing press releases about its Doomsday Clock,  the rationale for the clock was that it was predicting how close the world was to a specifically NUCLEAR holocaust. After …

“The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

Every year, news organizations feel obligated to publish a year in review article, in which they summarize what they thought were the most important stories of the year. This year, …

If you go to Step by Step Instructions on the Members Drop Down Menu, the link to the Step by Step instructions is at the top of the page but …

If you’re a news junkie, or you are heading that direction, this list of films about the newspaper business should interest you. These films capture the essence of what Americans …

The good thing about being a pessimistic cynic is that we are always happy when we are wrong, but we are prepared for the worst when we are right. The …

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I have introduced a new functionality that lists every article ever posted on BindleSnitch by Author.  You can access this function by clicking on the Members link on the main …

3 PM: I have removed several hundred bogus accounts...but new ones keep flooding in because they already know the location of the registration form.. For the moment, if you see …

In a stunning one-two punch, the entire landscape of television news was changed in a single day when NBC announced a six-month suspension for embattled NBC Nightly News anchor Brian …

A Fox News anchorwoman is suing Hasbro Corporation for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that supposedly shares her name and possibly her resemblance. Harris Faulkner has been …

Republican Defends Posting Fake Photo of Obama with Iran’s President

Last week, on June 3, the Times published a guest editorial by Senator Tom Cotton (R-ARK) under the headline of "Send In The Troops." in which he demanded that the …

Sometimes, as we cruise around the internet, we are brought up short by headlines that make absolutely no sense at all to us, and we're wondering if they make any …

Throughout history, wolves have been portrayed in a negative light in literature, movies and in the news. In Disney movies such as Beauty and the Beast, wolves are seen as …

The straw dogs are out in force in a full-fledged media frenzy aimed at one of the best known and most highly respected television journalists in the business. The media …

Jade Beall, the founder of A Beautiful Body Project, recently posted a photo on Facebook of seven breastfeeding mothers. Each woman was completely naked but Beall followed Facebook protocol by …

In May of 2014, Brian Williams conducted a wide-ranging interview with Edward Snowden eleven months into Snowden's self-imposed exile in Moscow. At the time, the extensive interview was the scoop …

A couple of generations ago, Newton Minnow, the late Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, called  television “a vast wasteland,” and that was back in 1961, before the media explosion …

AOL’s email service has been out of commission since 4:10 AM today.  Panic is spreading rapidly across the Internet because one of the biggest and least popular email services seems …

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Reinforcing Apple’s argument that an FBI request for the company to unlock an iPhone in the San Bernardino terror probe could unleash repeated demands for help …

I just can’t get over my addiction to AOL.  I don’t even use AOL to read my email any more, having linked my AOL account to my Microsoft Outlook email …

New York Times Op-Ed  contributor Charles M. Blow has been waging a courageous war against media blindness. In his current NYT opinion piece, Donald Trump Is Lying in Plain Sight, he …

The New York Times recent attempt to discredit Donald Trump is another example of how this paper has sunk to the lowest depths of journalism, making it nothing more than …

Most people don’t know this, but White House correspondents get to share offices and studios in the West Wing of the White House, something that has galled secretive presidents for …

I love it when people create posts that offer sage advice about an issue, only to end up delivering as many pieces of bad advice as they do good ones. …

CNN’s Jake Tapper says former President Obama benefited from a media industry that was “supportive” of him and reluctant to identify misleading information in a Rolling Stone magazine interview with …

In an article about Eric Trump's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), published yesterday on the Newsweek website, Newsweek reporter Nina Burleigh committed the ultimate reportorial blunder: she …

Tragedy struck Bindlesnitch today. We have just lost our most prolific contributor. What makes this even worse is that we have also lost ALL of the articles we ever published …

Right off the bat, I have to tell you that Abraham Penziner is a pseudonym. I’m using a pseudonym, with the kind permission of BindleSnitch executive editor Alan Milner, who …

Fortune Magazine likes to publish lists of people and things.  On April 1st (and isn’t that appropriate), the business magazine will publish its second annual list of  “The World’s 50 Greatest …

You can tell that a story has peaked, reached its apogee and is starting on the long, slow decline to its perigee and eventual extinction, when the story disappears from the …

If you want to understand what has happened to the news, the best way to do that is to compare how news used to be produced against how it is …

I actually got this book because one of the girl's wanted to do a book report on it.  After reading it myself, I found the "then and now" comparisons of …

This is why our perceptions of reality are so badly skewed. Here are two "take-aways" from Ambassador Gordon Sondland's testimony today, one from the venerable Associated Press

Trump’s Favorite Cable-News Channel is Now One America News

The title of the article, "Panicking About Your Kids’ Phones? New Research Says Don’t," says all that needs to be said about the article, which purports to refute recent concerns …

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