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December 23rd, 2024 - 5:22 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media, Politics

The White House isn’t their house

“Far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, Hugh Hewitt, is telling the incoming administration that they should bar all media from the White House except Fox News,” Raw Story reported on Monday, December 23, 2024 (read story here). Hewitt (photo, left) says Peter Doocy, FoxR[...]

December 15th, 2024 - 3:52 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, News Media

Did Stephanopoulis defame Trump by saying he “raped” E. Jean Carroll?

It certainly looked that way when ABC News agreed last week to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $15 million (plus $1 million for Trump’s attorney fees). But not so fast. At issue was whether ABC journalist George Stephanopoulis defamed him by insisting, during a televised interview [...]

December 11th, 2024 - 1:33 pm § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

There’s no story here

This is a story about a story that wasn’t published because careful news reporting showed there was no story. It involves Trump’s defense nominee, Pete Hegseth, and West Point, the army’s military academy. ProPublica was investigating Hegseth’s claim that he was accepted at West Point, which[...]

November 26th, 2024 - 5:34 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media, Politics

Unprofessional spokesperson

When Trump takes office on January 20, 2024, Karoline Leavitt (photo, left), 27, will be the youngest-ever White House press secretary. She isn’t ready for the job. When Washington Post reporter Emmanuel Felton asked her to comment on a story, she flew off the handle. Felton’s question w[...]

November 14th, 2024 - 10:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc., News Media, Politics, Republicans

“The Onion” buys InfoWars

Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones owes a $1.4 billion judgment to Sandy Hook families which he can’t pay. But he can pay something; after all, he made millions by selling supplements on his podcast show. To help satisfy that judgment, his assets are being sold off in bankruptcy court. One of th[...]

November 1st, 2024 - 5:31 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media, Politics

Daily Mail lies about Musk voter giveaway case

You expect tabloid journalism from a tabloid paper, but this Daily Mail headline … “Elon Musk wins court case against Democrats over $1million daily handouts to voters” … is an outright lie. The story itself clarifies that … “Judge Angelo Foglietta moved the case [...]

October 21st, 2024 - 2:20 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Republicans

Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”

It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]

October 16th, 2024 - 5:11 pm § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

George Floyd protests weren’t riots and didn’t kill 15,000 black men

A Republican liar claims “the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.” It’s not remotely true. Ryan Gidursky, a rightwing activist (see his website here), made that assertion on a CNN talk show on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (read stor[...]

October 11th, 2024 - 1:17 am § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jews, News Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans

How the Middle East could cost Harris the election

Grossly simplified, the Middle East conflict boils down to two peoples living in the same space. As you know, the latest stage of the conflict began Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,100 people, and took about 250 hostages. Israel responded with a m[...]

October 1st, 2024 - 5:14 am § in Democrats, News Media, Politics

How rightwing tabloid media misleads and misinforms

If a free press is the cornerstone of democracy, you’d never know it from studying American history. The media in this country has always been partisan, often sensationalized, and shapes public opinion in irresponsible ways. It was even worse in the earliest days of the American republic. But [...]