Category: Media

Why Did The New York Times Downplay NEA’s Endorsement Of Hillary Clinton? | Blog | Media Matters for America

Source: Why Did The New York Times Downplay NEA’s Endorsement Of Hillary Clinton? | Blog | Media Matters for America

My Thoughts on the Week That Was – » The Australian Independent Media Network

the week that was

Saturday 26 September 1 It seems to me that the coverage thus far from the MSM of Turnbull’s challenge to Abbott and his subsequent elevation to the Prime Minister ship is that of an election rather than a change of leader. I say this because it is reminiscent of a honeymoon period. In essence nothing…

Source: My Thoughts on the Week That Was – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The revolutionary act of telling the truth

John Pilger

The revolutionary act of telling the truth

Source: The revolutionary act of telling the truth

Leadership change sparks civil war at News Corp | The Saturday Paper

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

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates make bid for universal internet access by 2020 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates support a goal to bring internet access to everyone in the world by 2020.

Source: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates make bid for universal internet access by 2020 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fox’s Roger Ailes And Trump To Hold Peace Talks – Again – NewsHounds

Source: Fox’s Roger Ailes And Trump To Hold Peace Talks – Again – NewsHounds

Donald Trump Says He Will Boycott Fox News “For The Foreseeable Future” | Blog | Media Matters for America

Source: Donald Trump Says He Will Boycott Fox News “For The Foreseeable Future” | Blog | Media Matters for America

Analysis Finds 50% Of All Fox News Statements Are FALSE

PunditFact just proved what most of us already knew: Fox News lies – a lot.

Source: Analysis Finds 50% Of All Fox News Statements Are FALSE

 Media Bias of the ABC never mentioned by Andrew Bolt  Why Abbott is trailing in the polls despite his successes .

The Abbott Government has a far better record than its Labor predecessor, but in politics these days successes don’t make up for mistakes. The Prime Minister needs a year of clear air.

Source: Why Abbott is trailing in the polls despite his successes – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Why journalists have a duty to disrupt | The Electronic Intifada

Jorge Ramos has been accused of blurring the distinction between journalism and activism; so have I.

Source: Why journalists have a duty to disrupt | The Electronic Intifada

If the Fox and the Trump are in a symbiotic relationship. Whose the host and whose the parasite? If they hate each other? Will one kill the other?

The Fox News Primary For August: Trump’s Feud With Fox Only Widens His Airtime Lead

“There’s nothing linking Black Lives Matter to a Texas cop’s death” over the weekend, Vox explained, yet that didn’t stop Fox News from using the tragic murder to repeatedly smear the racial justice movement.

Ambushed Texas cop was shot 15 times in head and back

Vox Exposes Fox News’ Groundless Attempt To Connect Black Lives Matter To Shooting Of Texas Police Officer

Peter Dutton renews attack on ‘hysterical’, ‘ideological’ media/ Attention seeking call me victim?

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has escalated his criticism of media outlets he says are waging a “jihad” against the government, describing the response to an aborted Australian Border Force operation in Melbourne as “hysterical” and ideologically driven.

Source: Peter Dutton renews attack on ‘hysterical’, ‘ideological’ media

Fairfax leading jihad to bring down Abbott Government, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says – News Corp their only friend

There is a huge move by Fairfax to try to bring the Government down and he has a fair idea which ministers are leaking.

Source: Fairfax leading jihad to bring down Abbott Government, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Words matter – but don’t shoot the press officer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The path from shrinking newsrooms to the bulging corridors of corporate communications and government media units is a well-trodden one. Many journalists, your own Girl Reporter included, have sought a crust by writing press releases. Some of them may even have been poorly worded. The process of preparing a press release is time-consuming and thankless…

Source: Words matter – but don’t shoot the press officer – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Bolt complains that the ABF isn’t given the respect due to them. Straight from Fox

Stop and Frisk

Fox Host Complains That NYPD Officers Have To Justify Their Stop-And-Frisks

Hilary’s Emails

Wash. Post‘s David Ignatius Explains The “Scandal” Missing From Clinton’s Email Use

Washington Post opinion writer David Ignatius checked the “overstated” uproar over Hillary Clinton’s email use as secretary of state, citing national security legal experts who roundly dismiss the idea that any criminal mishandling of classified information occurred.

Breitbart News Slammed For Race-Baiting Article On Shooting Of Two VA Journalists | Blog | Media Matters for America

Source: Breitbart News Slammed For Race-Baiting Article On Shooting Of Two VA Journalists | Blog | Media Matters for America

Ailes vows Fox News won’t be bullied by The Donald

The Fox News-Donald Trump truce is over: Roger Ailes demands apology for Trump’s latest Megyn Kelly insults

The former pitcher took to Twitter to further tarnish the roaring garbage fire that is now his legacy

ESPN suspends analyst Curt Schilling from Little League World Series coverage for Islamophobic tweet

Trumpism

Scott Walker and Jeb Bush try Trumpism: Unsurprisingly, they just look like dopes

Scott Walker and Jeb Bush try Trumpism: Unsurprisingly, they just look like dopes

Abbott trying the race card over Labor’s response to the Chinese free trade deal wasn’t as surprising as the mainstream media’s blind acceptance of the slur

Tame media lets adversarial Abbott play race card in Chinese trade deal debate

How easy is Andrew Bolt’s job? He follows the bouncing ball at Fox News. If he was in Journalism school he’d be busted.

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Fox News Blames Obama For The Stock Market Crash

Bolt blamed Shorten for The Stock Market Crash

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Yes, Fox News Blames Obama For France Train Attack

Bolt searched and highlighted Muslim crime

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Anna Kooiman Doesn’t See Problem With Christian Soldier Memorial On Public Property

Bolt complains SRI and in particular Christianity is not compulsory in schools

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Fox Hosts Love How Donald Trump Dissed The Pope By Wanting To Scare Him

Bolt dissed the  Pope  on Asylum Seekers in Europe

How easy is Andrew Bolt’s job?

Julianne Schultz, Griffith University Repeated surveys show that people value public broadcasters highly. But the political class isn’t listening.

You’ll miss it when it’s gone: why public broadcasting is worth saving

Public broadcasting is a lot more than a safety net for commercial market failure

If you thought Kathy Jackson was a hero, then you are a fool

The rise and fall of the Insiders' hero

The rise and fall of the Insiders’ hero

Breitbart, Andrew Bolt and Shaun King. This was why Andrew Bolt was convicted of vilification wasn’t it?

How National Media Forced A Black Lives Matter Activist To Defend His Race By Falling Victim To Breitbart News’ False Story

The right’s campaign to take down a Black Lives Matter leader is transparently bogus. So why did CNN take the bait?

The plot to destroy Shaun King: How Breitbart turned a ludicrous conspiracy theory into national news

Waleed Aly explains The Government’s ‘war on greenies’ – Steve Price continues to look like angry, old, white man. | 1 Million Women

Waleed Aly explains The Government’s ‘war on greenies’ – Steve Price continues to look like angry, old, white man. | 1 Million Women.

At least 60 of Clinton’s personal emails had national secrets. How many were hacked? Andrew Bolt’s lie revealed

Fox’s Krauthammer Falsely Claims Emails Containing “Top Secret” Information Were Sent By Hillary Clinton

At least 60 of Clinton’s personal emails had national secrets. How many were hacked?

Fight Misinformation On Local News: Fox-owned stations now reaching 37% of U.S. television audiences, that’s a huge opportunity for the conservative media.

Fox News set Trump up to fail at the first GOP debate. So why is he still on top?

Roger Ailes, President of Fox News

What Roger Ailes Really Thinks of Donald Trump

In 2011 then News Limited chairman and CEO John Hartigan proudly announced that News Limited was “the only organisation that really takes it up to the Government“.

Illustration Andrew Dyson (image from theage.com.au)

Stories the Murdoch media would rather you didn’t…

How involved Facebook is getting in providing social media services to political candidates. Has Murdoch got a real competitor?

Facebook Is Diving Into the Presidential Race. Yes, You Should Be Worried.

Sources at Breitbart News have disclosed a pay-for-press scheme. Who’s in control?

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Breitbart News Staffers Disclose Donald Trump Payola Scheme

Roger Ailes Fox News and the rating game. Who Trumped who?

Megyn Kelly

When Megyn Kelly Isn’t Moderating A Debate

Murdoch’s Media

wsj

It’s Not Just The Editorial Page: Study Finds WSJ‘s Reporting On Climate Change Also Skewed

Trump Reportedly Threatened To Boycott Fox: The power of an oliagarch

Report: After Fox News Gets Backlash From Trump Fans, Network Boss Calls Candidate To Make Peace

We knew Donald Trump’s candidacy was going to implode sooner or later. That probably happened during Fox News’ Republican debate tonight. He was set up!

Here’s How Donald Trump Probably Lost The Presidency Tonight

Self-interest.What if Trump was able to direct his base of supporters to stop watching Fox? Whatever motivated Fox’s turnaround at the debate, it was almost surely not principled journalism.

What’s Behind The Fox News Breakup With Donald Trump?

What’s Behind The Fox News Breakup With Donald Trump?

Ailes’ ascendance as chairman while the anointing of Jeb Bush commences.

Roger Ailes Now Official GOP Chairman

Roger Ailes Now Official GOP Chairman

Ezra Klein’s excellent analysis for why that is so

Corporate Media

Print

John Pilger – Episode 12

the role of the corporate media in manufacturing narratives, its relationship to capitalism and commodification, and the importance of independent media to pierce through the propaganda. Pilger provides his blistering critique of the especially insidious liberal media whose misinformation and disinformation is so critical to the ruling class. Eric and John touch on an array of other topics including Greece, Ukraine, and debt as a neocolonial weapon. All this and much more on a slightly abbreviated Episode 12 of CounterPunch Radio, featuring as always intro and outtro music from the Dr. of the Blues, the man with a PhD in Boogie Woogie,

Right-wing opinionistas?

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Right Wing Trollumist Outrages The Left, Murdoch Smiling

As austerity punishes and pauperises more people, the counter-arguments to it are becoming more mainstream.

It seems that if you give previously disengaged people something to believe in, the connection with politics is instant and inspiring, writes Shabi [AP]

Anti-austerity: A political revolution

A new study suggests financial journalism has been captured by a small coterie of elites and by a newsroom culture that favours neoliberalism.

Why we can’t trust journalists to explain finance

Why we can’t trust journalists to explain finance

Fox News Running GOP

Roger Ailes runs the GOP: How the Fox News boss took over the presidential primaries

Lazy journalists continue to accept the Coalition’s claim that Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison stopped the boats

Stopping the boats: A graph for lazy journalists

Stopping the boats: A graph for lazy journalists

There’s no doubt newspapers influence public opinion, but by how much? “influence index” of Australia’s major newspapers. Is Andrew Bolt really necessary