Radio host and prominent Donald Trump ally Alex Jones was told by an RT host that Russian President Vladimir Putin asked him to “say hi to Alex.” Jones has claimed that he was told years ago that “Putin’s a big listener” and was previously informed that the “Russian government listens to” his show and the Kremlin parti
Source: RT Host To Alex Jones: Putin Told Me, “Say Hi To Alex”
By Cooter Jackson, editor in chief MUD LAKE, NV—Greetings friends. Cooter here. I’m here today to discuss with you a very serious topic, one which has far reaching consequences for the future…
Source: COOTER ADDRESSES THE FAKE NEWS EPIDEMIC | The Mud Lake Proboscis
A potentially devastating oil spill has poisoned a creek just 200 miles from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, prompting health officials to notify residents.
Source: Cable Networks Silent After ‘Significant’ Pipeline Spill Just 200 Miles from Standing Rock
Since the around the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, past comments regarding the President-elect’s questionable relationship with his daughter Ivanka managed to raise…
On Saturday, a false report was posted online. It was based on footage of a beating that took place in North Philadelphia last year, and it was altered to give the impression that the event had just happened—and that anti-Trump demonstrators were the perpetrators.
Donald Trump Jr. promoted an “alt-right” video on his Twitter account that suggests Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign is engaged in satanism and her aides are trying to “kidnap your children, make them disappear, sell them into all kinds of things.” The video features “alt-right” bloggers Vox Day, who claims blacks are inf
A conspiratorial screed from the National Rifle Association imagines a future where the presidency of Hillary Clinton causes the rise of a new chapter of ISIS — ISUS, the “Islamic State in The United States” — culminating in a nuclear attack on U.S. soil. In a November 7 article in its online magazine America’s 1st Freedom, the NRA
In an interview, Jay Rosen explores six ways the media can move past bogus neutrality — and rebuild public trust
Foreign-owned rag, The Australian, is outraged by foreign influence of environment groups fighting foreign-owned Adani coal mine.
Source: Irony of attack on green groups’ ‘foreign aid’ escapes foreign-owned rag
Lessons learnt from a day watching the (fantastically biased) American cable news networks.
Source: US cable TV: ‘The death of democracy by a thousand cuts of the stupid and vile’
In recent years American elections have proved to be fertile grounds for new media organisations.
Source: Suspicions Donald Trump is using campaign to pave way for new TV network
A cloud of “gloom” and “dismay” hangs over The Wall Street Journal’s newsroom, where journalists are reportedly disappointed with the paper’s superficial election coverage and “‘flattering’” treatment of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Reporters at the Journal, whose parent company News Corp. is chaired by Rupe
Source: The Newsroom At Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ Is Fed Up With Its “Galling” Pro-Trump Coverage
Fox News’ media critic Howard Kurtz attributed a fake quote to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, predicting that she would have to answer in tonight’s presidential debate for calling primary opponent Bernie Sanders’ supporters a “bucket of losers.” But Snopes.com and BuzzFeed have already reported that this quote — origina
Source: Fox’s Kurtz Pushes Fake Clinton Quote That A Different Fox Host Already Apologized For Airing
Governor says authorities have not found ties between explosion in Manhattan that injured 29 people and ISIL.
Source: New York: Blast has no links to foreign ‘terrorism’ – News from Al Jazeera
Based on current staffing, it looks more like Donald Trump is trying to launch a media company rather than win a campaign. Here’s how it could happen.
Source: Here’s How Stephen Bannon and Roger Ailes Could Actually Launch Trump Media – TheStreet
After seeing plenty of lame celebrity apologies over the years, this one was gold.
Source: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard set the standard for celebrity apologies
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall after a four-month romance.
The Texas board of education didn’t find anything wrong with a world geography textbook that said slaves from Africa were workers, but that immigrants from northern Europe were indentured servants.…
It was all Hillary’s fault. Dubya had nothing to do with the creation of ISIS.
Source: Former Lt. Colonel Blames Hillary Clinton For The Rise Of ISIS | Crooks and Liars
Steve Williams has released a tell-all memoir about his relationship with the famed golfer.
Source: Tiger Woods’ Former Caddy: ‘It Was Like I Was His Slave’
The commentators who thought Tony Abbott was their champion are desperately looking for relevance after the coup.
Source: Leadership change sparks civil war at News Corp | The Saturday Paper
Who are the so-called terrorism experts? In the wake of the Paris attacks, the corporate media has once again flooded its news programs with pundits claiming authority on terrorism, foreign policy and world events. We discuss the growing and questionable field of “terrorism experts” with three guests: Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept; Lisa Stampnitzky, social studies lecturer at Harvard University and author of “Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented ‘Terrorism'”; and Luc Mathieu, foreign affairs reporter for the French newspaper Libération.
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