We mapped the social interactions of 58,254 Antifa affiliated accounts on Twitter based on an initial seed of 16 self-identifying and verifiable Antifa accounts (and Mark Bray who chose not to confirm if he is a member of Antifa but whose book makes a solid case for inclusion). We reduced the dataset to 1.65% of […]
The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate by Chris Hedges…
In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and political agendas of the ruling elites. These techniques included portraying victims as either worthy or unworthy of sympathy. A Catholic […]
Trump Rails Against the Military-Industrial Complex When Asked About Iran…
President Donald Trump railed against what he called “the military-industrial complex” when asked about potential conflict with Iran during an interview with Steve Hilton of Fox News Channel Sunday. “Well, I’m the one that talks about these wars that are 19 years, and people are just there, and don’t kid yourself, you do have a […]
Petraeus Warns Iran to ‘be very careful’…
Iran Is Not a Major Sponsor of Terrorism, Not Even Close. Look at the Numbers for Yourself by Larry C Johnson…
Corporate Media Setting Up Iran as New “Threat” That Must Be Confronted…
How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts by Sharyl Attkisson…
The day that I told CBS News I wished to leave my job as investigative correspondent ahead of my contract, I didn’t give a reason. I didn’t see the point because the problem wasn’t fixable. Nor was it isolated to CBS News. My own take is that—as our industry has changed in ways that have […]
CNN Ratings Plummet 26% in Prime Time as Fox News Dominates…
CNN’s already-dismal prime time ratings dropped 26% in April compared to the same month last year, according to Forbes. The network’s total prime time audience was well under a million viewers at 767,000, while competitors MSNBC and Fox News more than doubled that figure at 1.66 million and 2.395 million viewers respectively – “April ranks […]
Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story by Glenn Greenwald…
BuzzFeed was once notorious for traffic-generating “listicles,” but has since become an impressive outlet for deep investigative journalism under editor-in-chief Ben Smith. That outlet was prominently in the news this week thanks to its “bombshell” story about President Trump and Michael Cohen: a story that, like so many others of its kind, blew up in […]
System Fail: The Mueller Report Is an Unmitigated Disaster for the American Press and the ‘Expert’ Class That it Promotes by Lee Smith…
It will take weeks for the elite pundit class to unravel all the possible implications and subtexts embedded in Robert Mueller’s final report on the charge that Donald Trump and his team colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election. The right claims that the report exonerates Trump fully, while the left contends there are […]
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