media criticism

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman made was invited to speak at the Davos World Economic Forum; basically a billionaire's meeting. He made the news when he used the opportunity to call out the elites on their hypocrisy. Now he was interviewed by millionaire Tucker Carlson of Fox News. The uppity...

Shortly after Trump won the election, and I was busy finding doomsday prep types to start hanging out with, I was with my friend who was getting married soon. He started talking about how he might have kids with his soon to be wife. I told him he was crazy to bring a kid into the world of Trump...

Der Speigel has just announced that one of their reporters Claas Relotius has admitted to faking many (possibly all) of the stories he has written for them. According to the NPR article below he has returned all the awards he received for his reporting...

It's amazing that the state of racial politics has come to this: A Racial Shakedown in Portland "a woman bearing the skin color of an American terrorist" Apparently this is OK to say now, and not "racist" as long as the skin color is white? Then it goes on about "activists" doxxing the...

Kristian Jensen, the Danish Minister of Finance, isn't happy about a recent Fox Business report from Trish Regan claiming that "Denmark, like Venezuela, has stripped people of their opportunities.": Kristian Jensen about Fox host: She shouldn't piss on Denmark (B.T., Aug. 13, 2018) Fox News...

FoxNews that journalistic bastion of the Non-MSM, had a pro-Trump highly decorated, combat wounded, Vietnam vet SEAL on. Minor issue with that is that he wasn't a highly decorated, combat wounded, Vietnam vet SEAL but he was pro-Trump. FoxNews was informed the next day that the guy was a fake...

For publishing "fake news"? Can anyone remember when a president was so anti First Amendment? Of course most "conservatives" won't care. Because they are authoritarian slime and Trump is their leader. Imagine if Obama threatened this. Republicans would be talking about impeachment. For...

I came across a blog entry on a new economics paper: http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/causal-friday-the-most-depressing-instrument-ever-fox-news-edition/ It purports to show that watching Fox News makes people more likely to vote Republican (rather than Republican voters being more...

Brit Tabloids: "We've always been at war with (South)Eastasia" "Boss, lookit this Facebook post! Paul Nicholls hurt himself in Thailand and the hospital's trying to rip him off for 13,000 a night!" > "Who's Paul Nicholls?" "That bit of eye candy from The East Enders. He still does a lot of...

CNN has appeared to abandon news of any sort and instead is doxxing some nobody who made a funny GIF. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html what a buncha pussies

A blogger has recorded week-by-week all the Trump atrocities that historically have characterized the beginnings of an authoritarian takeover...

So the former darling of the right will be interviewing this moron on Sunday night. Splendid. Why waste air time?

GOP candidate attacks reporter and has police called on him. Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS On scene now where Gianforte flags are posted outside a building. Looks...

About 18 hours ago, several Twitter reporters, including Claude Taylor, noted that the schedules of several Federal judges in Alexandrea, VA were being cleared or significantly reduced, signalling the possibility of a number of cases being prepared for a hearing. Broadsword Six, another of...

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/254852337-story http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/seth-rich-julian-assange-wikileaks-source-leak-gavin-macfadyen-dnc/ Assange has repeatedly said that the DNC stuff was a leak from someone on the inside, and not a Russian hack at all. He's also been coy...

Might be fixed by the time you read this - but I wouldn't be surprised if not - scroll down about 1/4 of the way to the sinking ship in the middle. Note the headline. Apparently even spell check is too much trouble for these guys. Well hey, "cruise" is a tough word to spell after all...

The story as far as I can reconstruct it is this. On the 13th of April, the South African Huffington Post ran a blog post entitled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?" as an opinion piece. As might be guessed from the title the writer suggested that it might be a good idea. The...

Apparently he's comparing himself to Wikileaks, and saying he has "hundreds of hours" of video tape he's about to release. So we'll see how edited this **** becomes. He's going to release such bombshells as: As if that wasn't Fox's *********** platform for the last 8 years. It'll probably be...

In a rare display of integrity, a Fox personality stands up against the regime's attempt to sideline the independent media. https://www.facebook.com/Mediamatters/videos/10154339389146167/

An open letter to Trump from the US press corps, written by Kyle Pope, Editor in Chief and Publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, in the name of the US Press Corps. They go all bossy on him, elaborating on points like this: Then they seem to remember what they did over the last eight...

Former Fox News contributor Monica Crowley was tapped by Trump to be a Deputy National Security Advisor. This was big news for Fox News. But then facts about her plagiarism for her book and PhD thesis started coming out. And Trump decided to cut her loose before she even started. Funny thing...

This article in The Nation is well worth reading. It discusses the relentless three-decade-long right-wing campaign to delegitimize and demonize both liberalism and the media. (Of course, the war on the media has been justified by its supposed liberal bias.) Not by coincidence, that war has been...

The media has been falsely claiming that Trump started the birther issue because he's racist, if this were true why did he only begin talking about it over 2 years after Obama's election during an interview when he was only asking a question then later began expressing doubts when several more...

Seems like the main outlets like BBC,CNN,are wrong mainly on Syria. Reporter who speaks Arabic goes to Syria 6 times and talks with the average Syrian and goes to Aleppo 4 times. What she uncovers is outright media bias against the Russians and Assad as it is proven time and again that the US...

Today BGR published and AT&T Yahoo further distributed an article called How to watch tonight's incredibly rare lunar eclipse. There will be no lunar eclipse tonight. They only occur during Full Moons, and currently it is a waning Half Moon. The next lunar eclipse will be a penumbral event on...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/business/media/exposing-fake-news-eroding-trust-in-real-reporting.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1 Fake news is a threat to democracy. Ignorant citizens cannot function.

This is kind of a remarkable exchange. Count all of the Rule 0, Rule 11, and Rule 12 breaches in there. Remember, my friends, Charles Blow is a columnist for the New York Times. Is he really any better than Sean Hannity on Fox News? I've posted a little bit of the transcript for those who...

Obama said the only word that starts with N that is edited here. You know, ******. He was being interviewed by Marc Maron in what has to be the biggest coup the comedian ever got for his largely overlooked but usually funny podcast...

This is something that always bugs me. Once again our nation's police murder someone and a city rises up against them. But all the media wants to talk about are looted stores. That's like covering the Warsaw uprising and only talking about how much it will cost to clean up all the bricks laying...

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/27/50-signs-watch-much-fox-news/ Not all of these are great, but some certainly reflect what I've seen from the growing crazy side of the Republicans.