Fox News is providing a platform for conservatives to spread misinformation about refugees and stoke anti-Muslim fears following a series of apparent terror attacks around the country. Fox’s open-door policy for fearmongers is in keeping with the network’s disconcerting history as a source of Islamophobia and anti-immigrant and anti-refugee
The label ‘conspiracy theorist’ is used by Western Establishment gatekeepers as a means of shutting down debate and smearing those who have the temerity to challenge elite-friendly narratives.
Source: Top 10 ‘acceptable’ Western Establishment conspiracy theories — RT Op-Edge
Banking, finance and insurance is perceived as the least ethical sector of Australia’s economy, according to a new survey.
Source: Ethics survey: Banking, media and big business on the nose
If future military disasters are to be avoided, the media must also face up to its mistakes.
Source: Chilcot lets media off hook for selling Iraq war – Al Jazeera English
Last week Andrew Bolt interviewed James Mathison – an independent candidate for the seat of Warringah which is currently held by Tony Abbott. Because nobody watches Andrew Bolt the interview slipped under the radar, and we may never have known it ever existed if not for one of our readers stumbling across it on Facebook.…
Source: James Mathison takes it up to Andrew Bolt – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Don’t miss Amy Goodman’s new commentary posted on AJ+ about the media and the 2016 election.
Source: Amy Goodman on AJ+: How the Media Ruins Elections | Democracy Now!
By Christian Marx Over the past three decades, the political and sociological narrative has become narrower than ever. Sensible social policies are now trumpeted as “dangerously communist”. The most basic social systems are labelled “hand outs for bludgers”. The Murdoch press is a hateful echo chamber for the intellectually stunted and the shallow thinkers. It…
Source: The system is the problem – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Finally, the world is safe from Italian economists doing mathematics on a plane. Alarm bells were rung last Thursday on a flight from Philadelphia to Ontario, after a passenger saw a man “suspiciously” writing down a complicated looking formula on a piece of paper and notified cabin crew. The passenger told flight attendants she was feeling ill, causing the flight to turn around on the runway. After some confusion, the mysterious mathematics enthusiast was taken off the flight and questioned by security agents.
Benjamin Netanyahu lied when he claimed that Israel doesn’t arrest journalists.
Source: Bragging of free press, Israel jails 19 journalists | The Electronic Intifada
Daily Telegraph’s reporter gets a taste of detention in Beirut, while some supporters play a poor hand as they rally to Tara Brown’s defence
The successful big business-led scam that let to the abolition of the road safety tribunal has revealed fatal flaws in our media and democracy.
Source: Blood on their hands: Old media helps IPA dupe crossbenchers into axing RSRT
The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said, on Saturday, that Israel had detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters.The New York-based committee said in a report that during detention and imprisonment, journalists have
Source: » 43 Journalists Kidnapped by Israel since October 2015IMEMC
You can’t handle the truth!
Source: Watch Bill O’Reilly Lose It After A Fox News Poll Delivers Terrible News For The GOP (VIDEO)
After a drunken altercation on King Street captured on CCTV, police are searching for a man with strawberry blonde hair.
Source: CCTV: King St attack
How would such an ignorant amateur actually run the most powerful country in the world?
Four Corners reporter Marian Willkinson reveals how hard it was to get through the front door of law firm Mossack Fonseca — the parallel world of tax havens.
Yes, voters are angry and GOP is in disarray. But the sorry state of journalism speaks volumes about Trump’s rise
IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
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Source: International Middle East Media Center – No Page Layout Set
FORMER prime minister John Howard has confirmed he urged Tony Abbott to remove Peta Credlin as his chief of staff and Joe Hockey as his treasurer.
Source: John Howard: ‘I urged Tony Abbott to get rid of Peta Credlin’
Survivors gasped as they heard Cardinal George Pell’s evidence at the Royal Commission and his central thesis that an astonishing list of people had deceived him about what was happening within the Church.
Source: Was George Pell left in the dark or were we? – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Hyeonseo Lee left North Korea when she was just 17 years old, crossing a river into China and never returning.
Source: North Korean defector reflects – The World – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
They don’t even try to hide their participation in influencing elections any more.
Source: Fox News Reportedly ‘Finished’ With Marco Rubio | Crooks and Liars
We look at Israel’s crackdown on journalists over alleged media bias; plus, the media landscape in South Africa.
Source: Spinning the occupation: Israel and the media – Al Jazeera English
The Nine Network has commissioned a 12-episode run of former Labor leader Mark Latham saying ‘shit’, ‘fuck’, ‘poo’, and ‘wee’ repeatedly for half an hour.
The edgy new program will explore the hot-button issues facing Australians, cleverly distilled into a series of swear words.
A producer for the new show said it would be fiery and unpredictable. “Sometimes he’ll say shit then fuck. At other times it will be fuck then shit. It’s going to be edge of the seat stuff”.
Muhammad al-Qiq’s organs are at risk of failure any day, says Palestinian prisoner’s legal team.
Source: Israeli court refuses to release hunger striker on brink of death | The Electronic Intifada
PM says police report’s failure to mention incidents at 2014 event amounts to ‘double betrayal’, while reports emerge on New Year’s Eve attacks in Malmö
Snowballs, witch hunts, and a big measles outbreak.
Source: Here’s a Video Showing the Very Worst Anti-Science Bullshit of 2015 | Mother Jones
Ashbygate Trust members respond, in no uncertain terms, to James Ashby’s scurrilous attacks on their independence.
Source: Ashbygate Trust members respond to James Ashby’s smears and slurs
The Project tracked down the scientist behind the graph Bolt keeps using on his show. ‘He has a message for you.’
Source: Waleed Aly takes on Andrew Bolt over climate change: ‘Let me nip this in the bud’
BBC rewrote headline on Israeli raid on Palestinian hospital to obscure extrajudicial execution.
Source: How Israel pressures BBC into changing headlines | The Electronic Intifada
Editorials in top media foreground Israeli concerns but sideline those of Palestinians.
Source: America’s papers brush aside Israeli brutality | The Electronic Intifada
As journalists, it is our duty to dispel myths and counter misinformation — not perpetuate them.
Source: Islamophobic Media Coverage Is Out Of Control. It Needs To Stop.
If wanting to keep the radical Islamists out of our nation makes me an extremist — then so be it.
Source: We’re not Islamophobic, Mr. Obama, we just don’t want to get blown up | Fox News
Fairfax media is at it again, bashing Islam and Muslims in the name of selling papers.
Source: Muslim Bashing: The Facts That Didn’t Get In The Way Of An Appalling Story – New Matilda
They’re only 5 years late.
Source: Mainstream Media Finally Admits Syrian Conflict is US-Russia Proxy War
TV news bulletins will now give Americans an overview of the day’s top mass murders, along with the regular sport, news and seven-day weather outlook.
“We’ll start with the breaking headlines as normal, before moving into the more day-to-day stuff like shootings and weather,” a spokesperson for one of the country’s major networks said today.
She said landmark sporting results, slaughters, and weather events would still be reported in the top news segment, but everyday occurrences would be confined to their own segments further down the bulletin. “That’s the formula that people have come to expect”.
Shorter 30-second updates will just contain news headlines.
Tony Abbott’s chief of staff Peta Credlin was the victim of a sexist attack for being a strong woman, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has said as he fired a shot at “gutless” Coalition MPs who have blamed Ms Credlin for the government’s woes.
Source: Peta Credlin’s treatment by government MPs was sexist: Bill Shorten
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