Michael Corcoran

Journalist/writer largely focusing on media issues and healthcare policy

3/12/07

Off Topic: Isiah Thomas

Sorry to get off topic here, but how the hell does Isiah Thomas -- inarguably the worst owner/GM/head coach in the history of the NBA -- get a contract extension?

Posted by Michael Corcoran at 1:30 PM

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Truthout 2010-2018
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Recently Published Work

Candidates Backed by Sanders’s “Our Revolution” Organization Achieve Early Success (Truthout, 5/31/18)
Fear The Ballot Initiative: Why The GOP Is Scared Of Democracy (Truthout, 5/27/18)
Redistricting and the 2018 Elections: Can Democrats Stop the GOP's Winning Streak? (Truthout, 5/10/18)
Medicaid Work Requirements: Trump's War On The Poor Expands, One State At A Time (Truthout, 4/25/18)
Trump's New VA Pick Appears Poised To Rubber-Stamp Privatization Of Veterans Affairs (Truthout, 4/2/18)
Single-Payer Health Care Takes Center Stage In Gubernatorial Races (Truthout, 2/29/18)
Blue Cross Pressures Employees To Donate To Opponent Of Single-Payer Candidates (Truthout, 2/23/18)
A Koch-Supported Coup At The VA? The Veterans Health Administration Risks Being Dismantled (3/20/18)
A Legal Battle Is Mounting Against the GOP’s Attack on Medicaid (Truthout, 2/6/18)
The People Vs. The Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack On Progressive Candidates (Truthout, 1/30/18)
How to Build a Single-Payer Health System: Lessons for Taiwan (Truthout, 1/3/18)
Trump's FCC Spends Year Waging War on the Press (Truthout, 12/6/17)
Thousands Of Bernies? Progressive Groups Aim To Build A Majority From The Bottom Up (Truthout,8/6/17)
The Battles Ahead: Meet the Biggest Opponents of Single-Payer (Truthout, 7/5/17)
Public Option vs Medicare for All (Truthout, 10/25/17)
Single-Payer Fight Fuels Primary Challengers Against Establishment Democrats (Truthout, 8/23/17)
Sanders Single-Payer Bill Electrifies Single-Payer Movement (Truthout, 9/14/17
As GOP Attacks Health Care, Movement for Single-Payer Grows Across Country (Truthout, 9/26/17)
How Civil Disobedience Helped Kill Trumpcare (Truthout, 7/28/17)
Bernie Sanders Goes to Canada for Health Care Inspiration (Truthout, 11/6/17)
Why Even the Private Health Industry Hates Trumpcare (Truthout)
The People vs. the Student Loan Industry (Truthout)
Trump Uses Power of the FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair (FAIR)
GOP Declares War on Sick People: the Moral Depravity of Trumpcare (Truthout)
Single-Payer Seeing Record Support in Congress (Truthout)
Fair Game; Resistance Pressures Complicit Democrats (Truthout)
Spicer's Hand-Picked Press Corps (FAIR)
DLC Lives: Third-Way Democrats Push Democrats Rightward (Truthout)
CNN's Revolving Door of Political Hackery (Truthout)
Clinton's VP Short List is Short on Progressives (Truthout)
Why Hillary Clinton and the ACA Won't Solve Health Care Crisis (Truthout)
Wall Street's Veto Power: Why Warren is Unlikely to be Running Mate (Truthout)
Why Bernie Sanders Critique of Israel Matters (Truthout)
Obama's Victory Dance in Argentina (Truthout)
The Koch Brothers Attempt to Kill Single-Payer in Colorado (Truthout)
The Dominant Media, 'Left-Leaning' Economists and the Illussion of Consensus (Truthout)
Democracy in Peril: 20 Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act (Truthout)
The 'State' of Health Reform: Activists Push for Universal Primary Care in Vermont (Truthout)
Hillary Clinton Declares War on Single-Payer Health Care (Truthout)
From Dean to Clinton: Populism as an Electoral Strategy (Truthout)
Bernie Sanders and the Limits of Electoral Politics (Truthout)
Hillary Clinton's Ghosts: Clinton's Legacy of Pushing Party to the Right (Truthout)
Why Rand Paul Called Hillary Clinton a 'Neo-con' (Truthout)
The Republicans' Manufactured Media War (Truthout)
Will Colorado Become the First Sttate to Implement Colorado? (Truthout)
Protecting the Shield: Why ESPN Can't be Trusted to Cover the NFL (Truthout)
Crises at Pacifica Radio (Truthout)
Blaming the Victims: Media Bias Against Struggling Millennials (Truthout)
Dark Money Dominates Election (Extra!)
Media Failures Lead to Flawed Understandings in Cherokee Adoption Case (Truthout)
How Google Is Helping the Gas Lobby Support Fracking (Truthout)
Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad" (Truthout)
Little Credibility: U.S. Coverage of Iranian-Latin American Relations (NACLA)
The Corporate Media's Attempt to Kill Occupy (Truthout)
Ignoring Monetary Stimulus as Economic Policy(Extra!)
Uygur Out at MSNBC (Extra!)
Smear Campaigns Fuel Shutdowns of Occupations Across Country (Truthout)
Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics (Truthout)
The End of the Bill Keller Era (Extra!)
MSNBC's Flawed Coverage of Libya, Economy (Truthout)
The myth of U.S. humanitarian intervention in Libya (International Socialist Review)
Corporate Media Takes a Side in Debate Over 'Entitlements' (Truthout)
Al-Jazeera, as endorsed by Hillary Clinton (The Guardian)
Media Don't Bite the Ruling that Feeds them (Extra!)
Media Distortions Legitimize Honduras Regime (Truthout)
Ecuador crisis, media bias (Nacla Report on the Americas)
The US Media and the Crisis in Ecuador (Nacla.org)
Media Continue Bank Bailout Advocacy (Extra!)
Media Manipulates the "End" of the War in Iraq (Truthout)
New Figures Show Student Loan Debt Exceeds Credit Card Debt (Campus Progress)
The Flotilla Story the US Media Won't Report (Extra!)
Singlepayer isn't dead: how the states are keeping it alive (Truthout)
New Bankruptcy Legislation Could Provide Relief For Those Buried in Student Debt(Campus Progress)
Human Rights Watch flotilla stance mirrors that of US, Israel (The Electronic Intifada)
Israel's Ongoing War Against the Press (Truthout)
Book argues 'Obama Zombies' Will Destroy America (Campus Progress)
The Flawed Media Narrative in the Healthcare Debate (Extra!)
A Tale of Two Elections: Honduras and Iran (Nacla Report on the Americas)
Rebuilding Media (Campus Progress)
''To the Next Generation of Rebel Voices' (Campus Progress -- obit/analysis about Howard Zinn and college campuses)
Massachusetts election could save Democrats from themselves(The Christian Science Monitor)
NYT's Double Standard on Nuclear Proliferation (Extra!)
Healthcare Reform and the Crisis of US Democracy (Firedoglake.com)
Jim Cramer's Mad Memory (Campus Progress)
The Cult of Michael Moore (Campus Progress)
How Obama Fooled the Left: Rhetorical Manipulation and its Consequences (ZNet)
Single-payer health care: dead in Washington, but alive in the states. (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Weekly Standard's War (Extra!)
Trying to make "Sense" of Glenn Beck (Campus Progress)
Iran v Honduras: the Times' Selective Promotion of Democracy (Extra!)
The Times' dismisses single-payer (ZNET)
The Left's Public Option Problem (ZNet)
See Past Healthcare Misinformation (Burlington Free Press)
Shared Complicity: the tragedy of the Pelosi/CIA affair (Various)
Why Vermont Marriage Equality Matters (The Nation)
The Absurdity of Modern Discourse: Gov Douglas and Gay Marriage (Green Mountain Daily)
Obama -- the first six months (Blast)
Vermont: Voices of the healthcare crisis (report, co-written with others)
The Howard Dean Rejuvenation Project (Blast Magazine)
Vermont, first state to be called for Obama (Blast Magazine)
Election 2008: The World is Watching (Blast Magazine)
The Left & the Obama Phenomenon (OpedNews))
Sabra and Chatila: 25 Years Later (Oped News)
On the Times, HRW and Israel (Oped News)
Worshipping Dick (Campus Progress)
The Democrats and Gay Marriage (Oped News)
Critiquing the "Post' (The Nation)
Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84: He Tried (Blast Magazine)
Secular Confession (Campus Progress)
The Politics of Impeachment (Oped News)
The Other Reason to Oppose Hillary Clinton (Oped News)
Why Are We "Sick?" (Campus Progress)
The Daffodil Delusion (The Nation)
Hasta la vista, single-payer movement? (Oped News)
Bloggers for Deval Patrick (Boston Globe)
Democrats and Iraq: Then and Now (Boston Globe)
Why Ned Lamont -- and Democracy -- Won the Day (The Boston Globe)
Kerry, Feingold and Health Care Reform (Boston Globe)
Thinktanks on Campus (Boston Globe)
The Lamont/Lieberman Debate (The Boston Globe)
The Importance of Public Broadcasting (The Boston Globe)
In touch with Americans? (Boston Globe)
Lack of Joe-mentum? (Boston Globe)
Political Bias in the Media (Boston Globe)
The Debate on Haditha (Boston Globe)
Democratic Party Diversity (Boston Globe)
The Myth of the Liberal Media (Campus Progress)
Why Kent State is Important Today (The Boston Globe)
Book Review: War Made Easy (Spare Change News)

Other media appearances

Interview with Ring of Fire Radio, October 2011
Radio interview on the Rick Smith Show, October 2011
Video Coverage of Boston Freedom Rally for Boston Globe, September 2009
Featured in Emerson College's alumni magazine, Expression, Fall 2007
Interview on the Jim Pillsbury Show, May 2006

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