The Washington Post continued its jounalistic malpractice against Social Security by misrepresenting the Trust Fund and portraying the program as in crisis. That brought a well deserved rebuke from prominent economists and other, but WaPo’s clueless reporter is still in denial.

Failed Shopping Center Tycoon by proxy and international cab-driver whisperer Tom Friedman has officially attempted to join the 99%.

What’s happened to newspapers didn’t happen because Craiglist stole all the classified ads away. It didn’t happen because Teh Kidz want all your base to belong to them. For all the jerking off about the iPhone and the iPad and the new 24-hour news cycle and TMZ and whatever, newspaper companies got into trouble because a bunch of guys were more interested in enriching themselves than in serving their readers.

The Washington Post’s Ombudsman attempts a pull back from WaPo’s rerunning of the Bloomberg expose on the Koch Bros. Shorter WaPo OBM: We can’t disagree with anything Bloomberg Markets said about the Koch Bros illegal activities, but we should have included his paid PR denial even though it didn’t shake the original story, and besides there are lots of other corporate evil doers besides the 4th richest men in America.

Friday, as the News Corp. Board of Directors held their annual shareholders meeting, close to two hundred demonstrators from Good Jobs LA, Brave New Foundation, NABET-CWA, Media and Democracy Coalition, Media Alliance, and Media Action Center joined with Occupy LA, AAVAZ.org, Free Press and Common Cause to protest the media giant’s behavior -including having politicians on their payroll as media commentators and authors, phone hacking and bribery, one-sided reporting, use of faulty statistics, bad governance, and most especially, not acting in the public interest.

Media activist Sue Wilson rallied the crowd when she told them that a local Fox channel in Florida went to court and received a ruling that a news broadcast over our public airwaves does not have to be true.

David Brooks delved deep into his storage locker of misinformation to tell readers that the idea of blaming the richest 1 Percent for the country’s problems is just silly. He told us that the really big ideas aren’t about reversing the upward redistribution of income from the top, they are from centrists who want to do things like cut our Social Security and make us pay more for health care.

The Occupy movement has spread from Wall Street, to D.C. to other areas throughout the country and even internationally.

Who could have anticipated FoxNews saying it is getting too much coverage?

Over the past ten days, hundreds of people have occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in New York as part of Occupy Wall Street. Citizens have faced down a city that has fortified Wall Street with blockades so corporate criminals responsible for the economic collapse in 2008 can avoid confrontations with angry, passionate Americans.

Paul Krugman called out the Villagers over 9/11. They showed him, they ignored him as much as they did their past policy errors.

At least one news organization is trying to be a “news” organization.