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Media Analysis

TTAC’s Matt Posky raises false fears about end of owning private cars

January 11, 2022 Steve 1

Over at The Truth About Cars, Matt Posky (2021a) recently wrote that his “stomach was in a twist” because the government was “talking about the merits of reducing people’s ability to own things.” His story […]

Media Analysis

Corey Lewis offers a questionable take on the 1961-63 Imperial

December 16, 2021 Steve 0

Corey Lewis may be The Truth About Cars’ best writer these days, but his piece on the 1961-63 Imperial offers a questionable take in some ways. The biggest eye-opener is Lewis’s (2021) contention that Chrysler […]

Automotive News shows its bias
Media Analysis

Automotive News takes the cheap way out by discontinuing comments

December 1, 2021 Steve 0

In a way I get Automotive News’ decision to stop accepting comments on its website. As we have previously discussed (go here), the quality of the discussions has tended to be depressingly poor. Alas, the […]

No smoking sign
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Matt Posky gets an earful from commentators at The Truth About Cars

August 31, 2021 Steve 0

Let’s post-mortem this thread, shall we? 1) Basically, what we have here was a ginormous food fight in which not one word was spoken about cars.2) Rehash of the same basic anti-employers-setting-COVID-safety-rules arguments from the […]

Abandoned Chevrolet truck at Kestner homestead in Olympic Mountains, Washington
Media Analysis

Auto media are still not taking climate change seriously enough

July 22, 2021 Steve 1

Ezra Klein (2021) recently commented that “it seems odd that we would just let the world burn.” As a case in point, after summarizing climate change’s escalating predations, he argued that even President Biden’s plan […]

Media Analysis

Peter DeLorenzo continues to continue with his usual swagger

June 4, 2021 Steve 2

It’s good news that Peter DeLorenzo is not going to retire after all. Last week an editor’s note suggested that his website, the Auto Extremist, might close (Word Girl, 2021). However, in his latest column […]

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‘Doling out progress at the minimum possible rate’

February 12, 2021 Steve 0

“The US auto industry has been perhaps the best example of a sector falling into a rut and doling out progress at the minimum possible rate for at least 30 years. It’s criminal IMO that […]

The Truth About Cars trafficks in an unsubstantiated allegations against Joe Biden
Media Analysis

Is TTAC editor Tim Healey okay with irrelevant disinformation?

December 18, 2020 Steve 0

This week Matt Posky (2020c) led off a post about a Biden cabinet nomination with a riff about “international money-laundering allegations against the Biden family.” The Truth About Cars reporter linked to a story that […]

Circular stairway
Media Analysis

The Truth About Cars peddles increasingly convoluted EV conspiracies

December 11, 2020 Steve 6

Did you know that a nefarious international conspiracy is afoot to impose eco-communism on freedom-loving Americans? That’s The Truth About Cars’ explanation for recent developments in the shift to electric vehicles. In its apparent quest […]

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The future of auto blogging after the fall of Rome

December 11, 2020 Steve 0

“I think we’re kind of in a postmodern, ‘Fall of Rome’ era of blogging. The golden age is well behind us, and there’s a glut of content and channels, a few barons and a lot […]

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