"Eventually First Look Media will just be Pierre’s Second Life avatar wandering around an open-space office plan." -- An anonymous First Look Media employee, speaking to Chris Lehmann, a contributing editor at In These Times Because of the grand jury decision in the Ferguson ...read more

Updated Below So Matt Taibbi is officially out at First Look Media. Yesterday, the outlet's founder Pierre Omidyar -- the tech billionaire responsible for eBay -- released a statement confirming what many had begun to surmise given Taibbi's extended "leave of absence" from the ...read more

Not too long ago, we covered a story at The Daily Banter about a tranche of grant money distributed to several nonprofits by Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media. In case you're just joining us, author Glenn Greenwald is the founding editor for First Look's The Intercept, a news ...read more

UPDATE below. You might recall several weeks ago when First Look Media, owned by Pierre Omidyar with Glenn Greenwald as his premiere talent, announced $550,000 in grants given to three organizations, two with which Greenwald has maintained a personal association. The most ...read more

One way of understanding the route of bias in the media is to look at the funding model behind the outlet. If a media company is owned by a giant corporate conglomerate, the odds are that it won't base much of its reporting on media consolidation. If a news network is owned by ...read more

We're learning more about the new business venture involving Greenwald and Omidyar, known as First Look Media. In a nutshell, there will be not one, but two business under the umbrella. First, there's a 501(c)(3) non-profit which will house the news and information website, ...read more

One of the most troubling aspects of Glenn Greenwald's new yet-to-be-named media company is the man behind it, Pierre Omidyar. The billionaire founder of eBay is a hardcore libertarian who believes fervently in privatization and the power of the free market, and will soon own a ...read more

Back in September, I documented some of the web bugs embedded within the pages of The Guardian, including bugs from companies that allegedly provided information to the National Security Agency's PRISM database. Bugs from Google and Facebook, to name two, appeared on NSA ...read more

Last week, Mark Ames wrote a blistering critique of Glenn Greenwald and what he called 'the privatization' of the NSA Leaks. Ames attacked Greenwald for partnering with eBay founder and billionaire Pierre Omidyar to start a new, for profit media venture, accusing him of using ...read more

It's back to the wheel with you, gerbils, where you'll run and run and keep on running until you can maybe afford to retire and die in peace. Here's some reading material to take your mind off all of that. 1. Swept Away Here's the headline of the morning: a massive storm ...read more

It's Friday, gang. Here's what you should know today -- or at least some trivial information you can use to make your co-workers think you're an obnoxious know-it-all. Have to admit, a lot of good stuff this morning. 1. It Was Good While It Lasted I've thought for a few ...read more