The Champion Everyone Somehow Forgot You know, back in 1951, if you spotted a Studebaker Champion, you couldn’t ignore it. This little independent automaker built a car that looked like it landed from the future. That famous bullet nose was inspired by aircraft design, while the wraparound Starlight rear window was so unusual people joked…

January 29, 2025 Image by Thomas Hawk On the job only since Jan. 8, San Fran­cisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is pro­pos­ing sweep­ing legis­la­tion and mayoral powers to over­haul how the city addresses the fentanyl, home­less­ness, and beha­vi­oral health crises on its streets. The Chron editorial board, below, supports the move. San Fran­cisco voters made it…

April 2, 2025 Image by Kevin Wong Countering mounting evidence that nonprofits are grifting the City by the Bay, new mayor Lurie outlines plans to demand that nonprofits receiving taxpayer largesse actually deliver. The Chron reports. At the same time, Lurie wants to revisit San Francisco harm-reduction policies with an eye toward preventing city-funded nonprofits from…

June 4, 2026 User:Hayden Blaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons SF’s Mayor Lurie scores a big media win on ABC’s This Week, as he distances himself from SF’s extremist, left-wing past. ABC News summarizes. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says his city is on the upswing after years of high crime, a widespread drug…

June 5, 2026 Alain Manesson Mallet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Claims of Japanese government pressure and manipulation of journalism persist, as the media’s dependency on access journalism and business interests have contributed to self-censorship and poor coverage of crucial public issues. David A McNeill of the University of the Sacred Heart explains in East…

June 5, 2026 Charlotte Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A dive into the data reveals a Progressive Activism monoculture is taking over journalistic–and other–job centres in the U.K. Ethical Systems explores. In the United Kingdom, most people don’t feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. For two-thirds of the population, talking politics sincerely,…

June 5, 2026 9 June 2004, Public domain, via Wikimedia If objectivity is a bourgeois notion, if language is just power all the way down, if feeling trump facts–it shouldn’t be any surprise that newsrooms on board with these notions simply pump out biased pandering. The Niskansen Institute explores the nexus of bad newspapers and…

The real reason establishment politicians hate AI?Because it’s exposing how easy it is for independent creators to outperform billion-dollar media machines. LA Politics Just Became a Meme

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The media is not telling you the truth about Xavier Becerra’s campaign finance scandal. Listen to Susan Shelley break it all down.