From the May 13 edition of Fox News’ Justice with Judge Jeanine:
Category: Media
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – CNN says White House officials were furious on Wednesday when the …
Source: Russians Troll Trump, release Photos of Meeting | Informed Comment
The future of journalism and democracy lies in news and analysis that reflects the interests of ordinary people, says John Passant.
Source: Rare gems like Mark Colvin and the future of the fourth and fifth estates
“Why waste the energy trying to appease people who obviously hate his guts and want to destroy him?”
Source: Sean Hannity Wants Trump To Cancel Press Briefings And Just Tweet His ‘Accomplishments’ | HuffPost
President Donald Trump has dramatically shifted his stated rationale for firing FBI Director James Comey. But Fox News hosts have not wavered in their defenses of the president, maintaining the same narratives all week: Trump did nothing wrong, the media is overreacting, Democrats are hypocrites for criticizing the president’s actions, and th
Source: How Fox News Covered Trump Firing The FBI Director, In 51 Screen Shots
(ANTIMEDIA) A power hungry president has kicked a power player out of office, and the mainstream media is having a field day. Headlines have obsessively focused on Trump’s termination of FBI Director James Comey and the implications that come with it, drawing comparisons to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and questioning Trump’s decision to fire the man who was leading an investigation into the president’s own alleged misconduct. While the drama currently unfolding will certainly have profound implications for the present and future, the theatrics playing out on telescreens around the country are hardly representative of the bigger picture in the United
Source: 5 Stories Everyone Is Ignoring While the Media Implodes over Trump Firing Comey
As the federal government looks to reform media ownership laws, the Australian media environment – in diversity and stability – is looking decidedly shaky.
Source: Australian media at a crossroads amid threats to diversity and survival
It doesn’t take a genius to understand the consequences for democracy if we lose investigative reporters to an army of Perez Hiltons. Should we consider public funding?
Obsession with female politicians’ appearance in the media is putting young women off going into politics, a study has revealed, prompting campaigners to call for an end to sexism in political media coverage. Nearly half (41 per cent) of girls aged between nine and 16 think there has been a rise in media sexism in the last six months, while more than a third (39 per cent) said this has knocked their confidence, according to the new research by Girlguiding.
If the Fairfax bosses win this round, we’re on the way to almost complete mainstream media Murdochisation in Australia.
Source: Six more sleeps | The Monthly
Barrett Brown, the journalist and “hacktivist” who is on parole after serving a four-year prison term over reporting on corporate espionage against Americans, has been arrested again. He had been speaking to the media and was set to appear on PBS.
On Anzac Day, at the airport, everywhere: the levels of vitriol in our personal and public lives need to be called out. It’s just not a clever way to talk to each other
The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to vote to ease a media ownership rule that prevents greater consolidation of broadcast television stations. Two of the biggest expected beneficiaries of that decision will be Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Television Stations and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, both key media allies of President
Source: The FCC’s Big Giveaway To Pro-Trump Television Broadcasting Groups
During Barack Obama’s presidency, perhaps no conservative media outlet lamented as loudly about the frequency of the president’s golf games as Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller.Year after year, a parade of Daily Caller staffers lined up to feed the phony outrage machine by detailing the supposedly mountainous taxpayer costs associated wi
Source: How Trump Embodies The Right-Wing Media’s Caricature Of Obama: Lazy, Secretive, And Corrupt
The video evidence shows workers at the site roughly 30 hours after the alleged attack that were wearing clothing with the logo “Idlib Health Directorate.”
Source: Video Exposes Evidence Tampering After Syrian Chemical Attack, Proves WH Report Was Fabricated – MT
In a time of historic protests and activism against bigoted and hateful policies of President Donald Trump and his administration, news outlets need to scrap the so-called “fair and balanced” panels of pundits and politicians speculating and judging protests from a studio.Since day one of the Trump administration, there have been organize
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On The Last Word, Angelo Carusone Calls Out Fox’s “Disgusting” Sham Investigation Of O’Reilly
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Bill O’Reilly Laughs At United Airlines Passenger Who Was Forcibly Removed From Plane
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Bill O’Reilly’s Former Station Just Paid Tribute To Him, Completely Ignoring His Sexual Harassment Settlements
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Recode’s Kara Swisher: Fox News’ “Pattern” Of Sexual Harassment “Clearly Has Been Going On For Years”
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Media Matters‘ Pam Vogel: “O’Reilly’s Had A Public Track Record Of Abuse For Years, And Fox News Has Been Complicit”
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NY Times‘ Emily Steel: Sexual Harassment Culture Lingers At Fox Even Without Roger Ailes
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold has won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting, which included the revelation that Donald Trump had made false claims about his charitable fundraising as well as breaking the news of the tape in which the tycoon bragged about groping women.
News Corp sticks up for comment moderators after columnists mock Paul Syvret, and gloom sets in for New York Times’ Australia bureau chief
after News Corp posted a second-quarter loss in February of $287m and cited impairments in the Australian newspaper business as a key factor, big cuts are planned locally for this year. One round of redundancies is imminent and one will be later this year. Insiders say the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph are set to lose as many as 30% of editorial staff by the end of the year,
The argument, first at a gas station and then outside a home, started over missing car keys.In the early hours of Monday morning, police stepped in to quell the dispute between Allen Cashe and his girlfriend, Latina Herring, at a Sanford, FL, gas station. Then hours later they responded to a 911 call for an “aggravated battery” and fou
Source: Mass Shootings Still Happen All The Time, So Why Does The Press Look Away?
Coalition says it struck area in west Mosul where officials say scores of civilians were killed by aerial bombardment.
Source: Coalition says it hit Mosul site where civilians died | News | Al Jazeera
We’ll need a lot more moments like this on television to get it through to the Congress that Trump. Must. Go.
Source: More Like This, Please: Jake Tapper’s Edward R. Murrow Moment | Crooks and Liars
…answers with a 10 minute Breitbart.com infomercial. Why MSNBC Why?
Source: Morning Mika Asks The Right Question On Breitbart, But… | Crooks and Liars
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is currently trying to take full control of the United Kingdom satellite broadcasting company Sky — which oversees Sky News. Such a move would increase media consolidation in the U.K., and it raises concerns that the Murdochs could seek to turn Sky News into a right-wing propaganda outlet like Fox News. In the c
Source: Read The Report Explaining The Danger Of Murdoch’s Sky Takeover
To merely make it through the day with one’s sanity intact is no small task during Donald Trump’s presidency. There are so many moving targets, and they proliferate so quickly, that it’s all but impossible to maintain any kind of equilibrium between outrages.
Source: The Media’s Addiction to False Equivalencies Has Left Them Vulnerable to Trump | The Nation
Donald Trump is escalating his war on the media and on one of the government agencies that has provided sensational leaks on his presidency – the FBI.
Source: As tempo of Trump’s media war rises, the unthinkable becomes possible
Hours after President Donald Trump denounced critical journalists as “the enemy of the people” before a cheering crowd of supporters, major news outlets were blacklisted from a White House press gaggle while the administration’s sycophants were ushered in.“CNN was not permitted to attend, along with the New York Times, Politico, Buz
Source: Trump Just Blacklisted Media Outlets. We Warned You This Would Happen.
He doesn’t even try to hide it.
On February 22, Jim Hoft posted an article on his website The Gateway Pundit alleging that a “Wikileaks Document Shows John McCain Requested Donations From Russians!” Fox News’ Sean Hannity retweeted a tweet that both linked to the Gateway Pundit post and called McCain a “globalist war criminal,” adding, “Wow if true”:[Screenc
Source: Sean Hannity Falls For Misleading Claim From Gateway Pundit (Again)
“My biggest fear is that later this week I will be among the legions at CPAC rearranging the furniture,” wrote Andrew Breitbart just days before the first Conservative Political Action Conference of President Barack Obama’s administration. “Instead, the conservative movement needs to think in revolutionary terms.”Eight years later
Source: The Breitbartification Of CPAC
If we don’t trust elites or institutions, can we trust ourselves?
Source: Media Sauce: Global report shows we don’t trust elites or institutions
Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopoulos announced Tuesday that he has resigned from the right-wing website following the emergence of a video in which Yiannopoulos apparently justified sexual abuse of a minor by an adult.“I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am r
The coal industry’s multi-million-dollar advertising and lobbying campaign in the run-up to the last federal election was bankrolled by money deducted from state mining royalty payments.
This should horrify us all.
Conservative media and President Donald Trump have repeatedly misappropriated the term “fake news” to attack journalists and news organizations that publish stories Trump views to be unfavorable to him and his administration. Despite the accusations leveled against these news outlets, they are not putting out “fake news,” which inv
Source: Taking A Cue From Conservative Media, Trump Consistently Misuses The Term “Fake News”
Obvious BS should set off our internal scam detectors, but it turns out the human brain has a workaround for that
Sitting down for his first presidential phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart “vowed to repair relations between the countries,” during a “warm,” hour-long discussion, The New York Times reported.The two men promised “to join forces
Source: The Press Shouldn’t Believe Anything The White House Tells Them — Ever
Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban has finally triggered a response from his biggest media benefactor.
Source: Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox gently rebukes Donald Trump over immigrant ban
Two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump last week include clauses that seem designed to provide Breitbart.com and other xenophobic right-wing media outlets with fearmongering content about the supposed criminality and dangerousness of immigrants, particularly Muslim ones.The orders create a feedback loop between the Trump admi
By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media …
Source: Trump sees Press and Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted
Source: Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest | Media | The Guardian
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