America’s media has demonized the U.S. Congress, the President, the police, and other American institutions for decades. They they want to blame Trump for the extremist, fringe elements that attacked Congress on January 6th. Taking into account how long it takes to radicalize someone, it is far more likely that America’s corporate media caused the violence…
Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean Its Opposite…
Outlets claiming to have “confirmed” Jeffrey Goldberg’s story about Trump’s troops comments are again abusing that vital term…
Trump Adviser: China Using Resurgent Wuhan Virus Scare ‘to Spook’ U.S. into Keeping Economy Closed…
A senior policy adviser to a Trump advocacy group says China is “trying to spook” American media and blue-state governors into keeping the U.S. economy shuttered following the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Curtis Ellis, policy director with America First Policies, a 501c4 that works closely with Trump administration officials, said China is putting out […]
Van Gordon Sauter, Ex-CBS News President: ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Passes Its Tipping Point…
About 35 years ago I was sitting at lunch next to Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who became a foreign-policy adviser to President Reagan and later U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was lamenting what she called the “liberal leaning” media. As the president of CBS News, I assured her it was only a […]
The Mainstream Media Are Bought, Paid for – and Doomed!…
Neither the Telegraph nor the Times group will disclose their latest figures but we can safely assume they are grim. It’s the same story in the U.S. where, even a month ago, newspapers were reporting an “extinction-level crisis” as advertising began to dry up. So why, having spent a large part of my journalistic career […]
The Curators…
We’ve entered a brave, new world in the information age. Where it can be tough to know what’s real. Now there are movements to help us sort through it all— to teach our kids media literacy, to “curate” our information and cull out “fake news.” Sounds like a good idea. After all, who doesn’t want […]
And You Don’t Believe Establishment Media Isn’t in the Tank for Hillary and DNC…
The “dark speech” theme was obviously a canned response by the Clinton campaign. Her independent media (not) dutifully repeated it over and over…