According to sources from New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, President Donald Trump is angry that CNN and CNN chief Jeff Zucker do not grant him the favorable type of coverage he receives from Fox NewsTrump has made it no secret his contempt for CNN, recently lambasting the network’s ratings in a January 24 tweet praising Fox’s inau
Source: Trump Reportedly Outraged That CNN Doesn’t Cover Him Like Fox News
Newt Gingrich has a new proposal for the Trump administration’s efforts to delegitimize and weaken critical journalists: turn White House press briefings into a “town hall” format where presumably hand-picked citizens would join the “total left-wing propagandists” in the press corps, while banning the most critical reporters from aski
In a surreal turn, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tonight denied reality, lashed out at the press for its supposed “shameful and wrong” coverage of the size of the crowd that attended President Trump’s January 20 inaugural festivities, instructed the White House press corps on what they “should be writing and covering,”
Source: The White House Press Secretary Just Declared War On Reality And The Press
He is the chief of staff to a man who pushed the birther conspiracy about President Barack Obama for years.
Source: Reince Priebus Complains About The Press Trying To Delegitimize Donald Trump
Following the #Trumpistan presidency? Here’s a guide to the best news sources.
Donald Trump has a message for the White House press corps: The press briefing room the journalists have used since the 1970s belongs to him, and if he wants to take it away, he can.On Saturday, Esquire reported that the incoming Trump administration has discussed evicting the press from the briefing room and holding the daily briefings wit
Source: Trump Wants To Flood White House Press Briefings With Sycophants And Propagandists
Donald Trump’s relationship with the media has always been contentious. But his latest idea for the White House press corps may be the most alarming yet.
Source: Trump reportedly planning to ban journalists from the White House
The verified Facebook page for American News (also known as The Patriot Review), with its more than 4.7 million followers, is perhaps the largest page regularly pushing fake news on the social media platform and is emblematic of the problem Facebook must address immediately. It shares dozens of posts each day, often topped with false, clickbait
Source: Meet The Mysterious, Facebook-Verified Page Pushing Fake News To Nearly 5 Million Followers
We can’t keep ignoring the enormous elephant that is renewable energy in our economic policy
Source: Environmental spin: An example of media disunity on renewable energy
By Miriam English I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, as have many people, I expect. The usual reaction is to blame the Russians for spreading it. And while the Russians are clearly culpable, there is much more to it. It should be easy to ignore fake news because it should be obvious that…
Source: How has fake news become such a problem? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Instead of helping efforts to keep fact and fiction clearly separate, the claim is now being used to blur the delineation between them even further
Doc Martin examines the latest salacious reports that Putin set a honeytrap for Trump and asks “Who can we believe?”
Source: Media Sauce: Who to believe of Trump’s #goldenshowers and honeytraps
Post-truth is a symptom not the disease, while we need a media that challenges rather than normalises the far-right.
The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan uses her latest column to call for journalists to stop using the phrase “fake news,” a term reporters and activists have used over the past few months to describe a form of politicized misinformation that had at least some impact on the 2016 presidential election. She reasons that “though the term has
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus has apparently undergone a rather dramatic change in terms of how she views President-elect Donald Trump — specifically, whether she thinks it’s OK for journalists to label him a liar when he constantly lies.Stressing the “huge challenge” that looms for the press to cover Trum
Source: Faced With Trump’s Looming Press Crisis, Media Embrace Timidity And Accommodation
Longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone claimed that CIA Director John Brennan is a “mole” for the Saudi government and suggested that he be thrown in jail.Stone is a longtime friend and ally of President-elect Trump’s with a decades-long history of employing political dirty tricks, and he regularly spouts violent, racist, and
Source: Trump Adviser Roger Stone: CIA Director John Brennan Is A “Saudi Mole”
On Monday’s installment of
Source: Michael Moore Drops A Truth Bomb About Same-Sex Marriage On ‘The View’
Trump’s scarily effective White House propaganda apparatus will work from the bottom up, posing as journalism
Source: Fake news for the Great Leader: Donald Trump’s readymade White House propaganda machine – Salon.com
The new face of NBC News spent the final months of the presidential campaign withholding vital information about Donald Trump, revealing it only in the book she published days after the election.Fox News host Megyn Kelly has been hired away by NBC, where she will play “a triple role in which she will host her own daytime news and discussi
Source: Megyn Kelly, New Face Of NBC News, Spent Election Withholding News From The Public
When Donald Trump is inaugurated later this month, the presidency will officially be held by an inveterate liar. And the way the press has covered Trump in the two months since his November election victory suggests that many journalists need to adjust their approach to address that reality before Trump takes office.On New Year’s Eve, Tru
Source: What Journalists Can Do When The President Is A Liar
Night was coming on as I arrived in Heathrow airport on Tuesday. In a waiting lounge at the airport’s central bus station, the urgent and meretricious tones of the television news could be heard. A gang of homicidal thugs had massacred 41 innocent people and injured 239 at Turkey’s Ataturk airport.
Source: Why don’t we stand with Turkey, like we did with Paris and Orlando? | The Independent
Find out which were our most read stories from this year and which stories our editors liked the most.
From humane prisons in Norway to Colombian rebels preparing to give up their guns, these are some of our favorite features of the year.
Source: 6 Stories From 2016 That Made Us See The World Differently
Alan Austin’s story on the ABC employing rightwing commentator and ABC critic Andrew Bolt was his second in the top ten.
Source: IA #2 top story of 2016: The ABC plunges to a new low
Enemies of the Cuban Revolution, who have no other name other than “counter-revolutionaries”, don’t seem to stop their attack, which is what the Empire orders them to do.
Source: The Journalism of Terror Regarding Cuba – Havana Times.org
We do not live in a “post-truth” world, neither in the Middle East nor in the West – nor in Russia, for that matter. We live in a world of lies. And we always have lived in a world of lies.
Source: We are not living in a ‘post-truth’ world, we are living the lies of others | The Independent
An anti-intellectual alliance of misogynists and white nationalists is using cult tactics to harass and abuse Americans. They systematically attempt to discredit reputable sources. They replace logic with paranoia. They horrifically harass perceived political opponents. And this campaign, which has dangerous historical precedents, has been empo
Source: Misinformer Of The Year: The Ecosystem Of Fake News And The “Alt-Right”
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
Since my Tuesday piece on the Berlin attack – when, as the BBC is still saying, a lorry ‘went on a rampage’ in…
Source: The predictable Muslim ‘good news stories’ have arrived | Coffee House
A Jewish family had to flee a Pennsylvania county after Fox News and Breitbart reported untrue stories that they had shut down a school Christmas play. Centerville Elementary School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania canceled their annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this year primarily because the production requires 20 hours of classroom time to […]
Source: Jewish Family Flees County After Fox News Falsely Blames Them For Canceling Christmas Play
The Sun and Daily Mail have been singled out in a report on “hate speech” and discrimination in the UK. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) took aim at some British media outlets, particularly tabloid newspapers, for “offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology”.
By Dave Chadwick It has been a pretty busy couple of weeks leading up to Christmas and I was going to leave off the overt political commentary for a while, but since Peter Dutton and Steve Price aren’t going to, it would be remiss of me to stop correcting their ignorance. The odious Peter Dutton’s…
Source: Steve Price: that poor, hard done by old white man – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claimed that “the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be scrapped” because “the left wants power taken away from the white establishment.” O’Reilly has taken a stand against “the left” on behalf of white people several times in the past, claiming that
Source: Six Times Bill O’Reilly Defended The “White Establishment” Against “The Left”
In a Politico article detailing how President-elect Donald Trump’s “horde of enforcers” — Breitbart.com listed prominently among them — are scaring Republican lawmakers away from criticizing him, a Breitbart editor said Republicans are right to fear the right-wing website, which was previously run by Trump senior counselor Stephen Bannon. T
For decades, the media have been dominated by manufactured reports. This skillful manipulation of information erased the lines between fact and opinion and gave rise to the demagogue who will sit in the Oval Office.
Source: Chris Hedges: ‘Fake News’ in America: Homegrown, and Far From New – Chris Hedges – Truthdig
The merger has been greeted with silence by ministers who usually welcome foreign investment. That’s because Murdoch is as controversial as ever
Source: The Fox-Sky row isn’t going away, no matter how much ministers ignore it | Business | The Guardian
Doc Martin delves deeper into the psychological, philosophical and intellectual roots of the post-truth media landscape.
For the past three weeks, I’ve been observing the world from a hospital bed. One of my pastimes has been to read the Australian carefully each day, something I haven’t done since completing my analysis of the harm the paper does to the nation, in the Quarterly Essay ‘Bad News’.
By S. Shyam Sundar | (The Conversation) | – – In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that …
This brave new post-truth world will not belong to the brightest but to the most popular.
The reality of remote Indigenous communities is a 40 per cent poverty rate —”over-funding” is just spin.
The UK massively overestimates the proportion of Muslims in the population. We think that 1 in 6 people in the UK are Muslim, when the real figure is fewer than one in 20. And we’re not the the only ones who do this. Most countries surveyed overestimate the Muslim population by a huge amount, as the below chart by Statista shows:
Source: People in Europe massively overestimate the Muslim population, study shows
Some right-wing media figures and outlets are attempting to twist and confuse the term “fake news” — a specific phenomenon in which information is clearly and demonstrably fabricated, then packaged and distributed to appear as a legitimate source of news — to attack outlets they disagree with. By redefining fake news in their own terms an
Source: Right-Wing Media Are Using The Term “Fake News” To Attack Credible News Sources
Kim Williams to host show called What Keeps Me Awake but at least 20 full-time staff plus casuals will lose jobs. Plus: a former Fairfax hack gets a status upgrade
Source: Former News Corp CEO wins Radio National slot as full ABC cuts revealed | Media | The Guardian
Trumpsters gave birth to a conspiracy theory that became a deadly shootout in a Washington pizza parlour and a new hashtag #pizzagate.
Source: Media Sauce: Post-truth news from #Pizzagate to the Pontiff’s poo missive
Just four days into the job, it was clear Michelle Guthrie was in for a bumpy start as managing director of the ABC.
Source: Michelle Guthrie’s bruising first year atop the ABC: ‘The way it was done was brutal’
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