When half a dozen people are shot all at once, it doesn’t normally take days to find out what happened and who was responsible. But a wall of police silence surrounds the act of fanatical political terrorism committed by a rightwing extremist in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 19, 2022[...]
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February 20th, 2022 - 10:15 am § in Misc., News Media
Beijing Olympics meltdown recap
The 2022 Winter Olympics are over. Few people watched; NBC overpaid for the broadcast rights in corrupt bidding, and Nielsen ratings were in the toilet. Neither the World Genocide Capital setting, nor athlete performances headlined by the biggest on-ice meltdown since Tonya Harding, helped. As one v[...]
February 7th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
Who’s telling the truth about Ottawa truck protesters?
Here’s how U.K.-based tabloid newspaper Daily Mail describes the ongoing trucker protests against Canada’s border vaccine mandate: “Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the d[...]
Biden’s flacks flub Press Relations 101
In this video, veteran reporter Matt Lee asks Ned Price (profile here), a retired CIA analyst who’s now the State Department’s spokesman, for “evidence” that Russia is making a propaganda film faking a Ukraine attack against Russia in order to create a pretext for a Russian i[...]
Joe Rogan: Guilty or innocent?
Podcaster Joe Rogan (profile here), who self-identifies as a libertarian and free speech advocate, claims “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.” A lot of people beg to differ, including “270 scientists, physi[...]
Fox airheads sound off against a black woman on SCOTUS (video)
Tomi Lahren (bio here) and Maria Bartiromo (bio here) aren’t stupid people, although you’d never know that from their arguments in this video against appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court. They’re so full of helium you wonder how they manage not to float away. Return to The[...]
Biden’s latest gaffe
“President Biden was caught on a hot mic Monday appearing to call Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” in response to a question asked at the start of a White House event on lowering the prices of consumer goods,” AOL News reported on Monday, January 24, 20[...]
Talent agency drops Fox host for comnparing Dr. Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor
Fox host (or ex-host, that isn’t clear yet) Lara Logan (bio here) won’t get any more gigs from United Talent Agency (profile here). She’s so nasty and vile, they want nothing to do with her. She may have lost her Fox Nation gig, too; at the very least, Fox executives have buried he[...]
Trump cancels press conference to defend Capitol rioters, blaming “media bias”
Trump has canceled a scheduled January 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago at which he “reportedly planned to defend the rioters,” CNN reports (story here). Instead, he plans to address that “topic” at a January 15 Arizona rally. “Trump in recent months has defended rioter[...]
How do we know what to believe?
“Nearly three-quarters of Republicans doubt that President Biden’s 2020 electoral victory was legitimate,” The Hill reports (story here). Believing lies doesn’t make them true. But how do we really know what’s true or isn’t? People can legitimately believe things that[...]