O’Reilly’s Ratings Soar Despite Sex Harassment Charges
By Don Irvine.
Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly saw his ratings rise substantially last week despite the fact that more than 60 advertisers have pulled ads from his show after The New York Times reported that O’Reilly and [...]
Former Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest Joins NBC News, MSNBC as Political Analyst
By Don Irvine.
Josh Earnest, who served as White House Press Secretary for the last 2 1/2 years of Barack Obama’s presidency, has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a political analyst, according to an announcement from the networks on [...]
Cronkite Award for Ramos signals a more partisan age in journalism
By Joe Concha.
It was announced on Monday that Univision and Fusion lead anchor Jorge Ramos will be honored with a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award next month in Washington for “advancing the conversation about what divides [...]
NY Times Executive Editor: WaPo’s New “Democracy Dies In Darkness” Slogan Sounds Like a Batman Movie
By Don Irvine.
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet chided The Washington Post over its new masthead slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” as something that sounds more like it belongs in a Batman movie and not on the [...]
Slight Majority of Americans Think Media Coverage of Trump is Too Tough
By Don Irvine.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that slightly more than half of Americans think that the media’s coverage of President Trump has been too critical.
The poll found that 51% of Americans think the media [...]
Flashback: Democratic Pollster Pat Caddell Called the Media the “Enemy of the American People” in 2012 [Video]
By Don Irvine.
President Trump escalated his battle with the liberal media on Friday when he tweeted that they were “the enemy of the American people,” but he wasn’t the first person to place that label on them.
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Trump at War with Media Scoundrels
By Stephen Lendman.
He’s right calling them “the most dishonest human beings on earth.” Well, almost.
The same goes for most US and other Western politicians. They lie and deceive. They betray their constituents.
They [...]
Deborah Turness Out as NBC News President
By Don Irvine.
NBC News president Deborah Turness has been named the president of NBC News International, which is the network’s side of a new partnership with EuroNews, a pan-European satellite news service based in Lyon, France. [...]
Dan Rather Launches “News and Guts” Facebook Page to Combat Fake News
By Don Irvine.
Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather has launched a new Facebook page to ferret out real news from what he considers to be the fake news that has proliferated since the election:
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Trump Versus CNN
By Stephen Lendman.
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Cable television’s first news network, founded in 1980 by media mogul Ted Turner, is now its least reputable, its credibility in tatters, its ratings way down since Trump’s election.
MSNBC also lost viewership. [...]
Politics Behind NYT’s Misuse of Language
By Peter J. Wallison.
The country’s wide political divisions are causing a serious corruption of the language we use daily in the United States. Important and descriptive words that once had a clearly understood [...]
Can the blockchain kill fake news?
By David Andolfatto.
Not actually fake news, but good for a good laugh!
Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle has an interesting article on fake news: Fact-Checking’s Infinite Regress Problem. Fake news constitutes blocks [...]
Relentless Media War on Trump
By Stephen Lendman.
Throughout his campaign and post-election triumph, media scoundrels bashed him relentlessly – an unprecedented war, aimed at delegitimizing and undermining him, continuing post-inauguration.
Earlier The New [...]
Trump Tweets to Fight Back Against “Dishonest Media”
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By Don Irvine.
President-elect Donald Trump, who rode his tweets all the way to the White House, told Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt that he really doesn’t like to tweet, but does it to combat what he sees as a dishonest media.
“Look, [...]
To be or not to be connected: The right to be (dis)connected
By Jasna Cosabic.
From the proclaimed right to be connected to the evolving right to be disconnected, only few years have passed. However in internet sphere, prompted by the fast developing world of technologies, [...]
Trump Scorches the Media in First Press Conference Since Election
By Don Irvine.
In his first press conference since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump scorched the liberal media as he answered a wide variety of questions.
During the press conference, Trump called Buzzfeed—which [...]
NYT Frantic Over Growing Russian/Turkish Ties
By Stephen Lendman.
Russia, Turkey and Iran formed a trilateral alliance for achieving cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution in Syria – Washington excluded from participation for obvious reasons.
Russian and Iranian [...]
Greta Van Susteren Invites Fox News Viewers to Watch Her MSNBC Show
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By Don Irvine.
Greta Van Susteren, who abruptly left Fox News last September after 14 years at the network, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show on Thursday, appealing to her Fox fans to follow her over to her new MSNBC show, which [...]
Adding Insult to Injury—Hillary Clinton Makes GQ’s “Least Influential People Of 2016” List
By Don Irvine.
If you thought Hillary Clinton’s year couldn’t get any worse, it just did, with the former Democratic presidential nominee being named to GQ’s “Least Influential People Of 2016” list.
GQ’s Drew Magary wasn’t [...]
N.Y. Times Public Editor Rips Paper for Lack of Diversity in Newsroom
By Don Irvine.
New York Times public editor Liz Spayd criticized the newspaper on Saturday for preaching diversity, but not practicing it in the newsroom:
“The Times can be relentless in questioning the diversity at other institutions; [...]