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June 14th, 2024 - 2:06 am § in News Media, Politics

News or propaganda?

It can be hard to tell. The news industry’s traditional business model has collapsed, and newsrooms are going away. Newspapers used to be supported by advertising, local TV news by commercials. But shopping and advertising moved to the internet, greatly reducing financial support for unbiased [...]

June 6th, 2023 - 9:24 pm § in Law and Courts

What liberal propaganda looks like

When Michael Tisius (photo, left) was 19, he participated in a jailbreak. He killed two unarmed guards, and landed on Missouri’s death row (see story here). Twenty-three years later, as his execution approached, Huffington Post ran a story (here) pleading for commutation of his death sentence.[...]

June 23rd, 2022 - 12:25 pm § in Health

Fake abortion clinics lure women to inflict anti-abortion propaganda

Google’s search engine sending women to these fake clinics is causing an uproar; watch video below. At least 50 of these deceptive clinics operate in Washington State; see story here. The women who visit these clinics are told “that birth control doesn’t work, that abortion dooms them [...]

June 14th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in News Media, Politics

More proof Fox is a propaganda, not a news, network

Veteran journalist Chris Stirewalt (bio here) “was working Fox News’ decision desk on Election Night 2020,” and called Arizona for Biden, before any other network. That incensed Trump and his allies, and Fox fired him for it. “Stirewalt’s reporting was totally accurate,” [...]

March 20th, 2018 - 4:43 pm § in Politics

Fox military analyst quits in disgust, calls network “propaganda machine”

Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters quit his role as a Fox military analyst Tuesday, and ripped into the network in an email to his colleagues, in which he said, “I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia [...]

September 7th, 2016 - 1:26 am § in Misc.

BUCHENWALD 134: “No one believed the stories about the camps. It was all propaganda until ….”

While my brother and sister continue their horrid effort to destroy my father’s heritage from the liberation of Buchenwald, Soon, no one who saw my Dad or knew him during WWII, will be alive.  Now, all of the he world has lost another hero. A U.S. officer who helped liberate 2,500 Jews duri[...]

May 28th, 2016 - 10:21 pm § in Misc., Russia

Russia Propaganda: Russia Good, West Bad

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March 7th, 2016 - 5:26 pm § in Politics

Dinesh D’Sousa’s new propaganda flick

This guy’s so bad he’s funny. Hey, I’m not saying you should see his new movie; the trailer lasts 1 minute and 25 seconds, which like waterboarding is plenty. Spoiler alert: D’Sousa isn’t an original thinker; in this film, he recycles the hoary old conservative argument[...]

October 3rd, 2015 - 1:42 am § in America, Schools & Colleges

Anti Charter Propaganda

David Sirota at Salon goes on a tirade, claiming that we do not need to reform public schools because poor kids do badly cuz they iz poor.  This article is rather stupid. YES poverty is a very, very bad thing. Yes, as Sirota highlights,  studies show that 2/3 of the variation among Americas scho[...]

July 19th, 2014 - 1:24 am § in China, Misc.

CHINA: Propaganda in the new China

Remember the sexless days of Mao?  Propaganda[...]