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Gallup: Media Ranks Dead Last in the Public’s Trust…

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In a Gallup public opinion survey released near the beginning of the coronavirus shutdown, eight of the nine institutions studied received majority positive ratings — led by U.S. hospitals, at 88% approval The media ranked dead last in the study of Americans’ trust in institutions. Only the media got a more negative than positive review. […]

Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism” by Glenn Greenwald…

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The New York Times’ recently hired media columnist Ben Smith, who spent the previous nine years as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News as it grew into a media behemoth, did something Sunday night that very few other U.S. journalists would be willing to do: He published an unflinching and sometimes scathing critique of former-MSNBC-daytime-host-turned-widely-beloved-New-Yorker-star-investigative-reporter Ronan Farrow…

Leftist Media Loses Its Mind over Trump for Taking Prescribed Hydroxychloroquine Drug…

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Virtually minutes after President Donald Trump announced that he’s taking a prophylactic regimen of hydroxychloroquine and zinc to ward off COVID-19, a media backlash erupted. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto warned: “If you are in a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment … it will kill you. I cannot stress […]

‘Inducing Panic’: Media Under Fire for Driving Hype to Epidemic Levels…

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Concerns about the coronavirus pandemic are both warranted and understandable, but the media is increasingly coming under fire for stoking a panic mentality that experts decry as both counter-productive and unsupported by the facts. In addition to the stock market’s daily roller coaster ride, grocery stores and warehouse clubs in some areas have been picked […]

With an Election on the Horizon, Older Adults Get Help Spotting Fake News…

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At the Schweinhaut Senior Center in suburban Maryland, about a dozen seniors gather around iPads and laptops, investigating a suspicious meme of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Plastered over her image, in big, white block letters, a caption reads: “California will receive 13 extra seats in Congress by including 10 million illegal aliens in the 2020 […]

Should You Hate the Media? by Bill O’Reilly…

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1975 was an exciting time to be at Boston University’s School of Public Communication. There we were, about 30 students seeking a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism. All of us thought our quest was noble, that we would become purveyors of truth, skilled fact-finders and truth-tellers in the Watergate tradition. The lessons presented were well […]

Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided — and Broken — News Media by Matt Taibbi…

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Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.” The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses” remains in […]

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