Fox talk-show host Maria Bartiromo, who used to be a respected financial journalist before she left CNBC to become a flack for Trumpism, dished up a plate of Kari Lake election denialism on her show on Sunday, January 8, 2023 (see story here). Formatted as an interview, but in actuality a backscratc[...]
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What it’s like without a free press
In South Sudan, 6 journalists were arrested for filming the president pissing in his pants. Read story here In Phoenix, Arizona, a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested for reporting while black. Read story here — West Virginia’s GOP governor got a reporter fired for reporting on abuse [...]
January 1st, 2023 - 7:06 pm § in News Media
Fox guest accuses Idaho suspect of more murders
There are no bodies, or even missing persons, but that didn’t stop this Fox guest from speculating the Idaho slayings weren’t the perpetrator’s first murders. The Fox producers and on-air hosts have their fingers in this pie, too, because they solicited his appearance, put him on t[...]
What’s next for Kari Lake?
Kari Lake’s signal accomplishment in politics is losing to a Democrat in Arizona. That took work, and a reverse sort of genius, but she was up to it. Lake ran for governor on a 3-part platform: (1) Zero experience for the job, (2) insisting Trump was robbed in 2020, and (3) asserting the elect[...]
Why Sidney Powell’s “no reasonable person” defense won’t save her
It might not save Sean Hannity, either. Dominion Voting Systems is suing Hannity and Powell for defamation. Sidney Powell, a Trump lawyer and high-profile promoter of his election lies, went on Hannity’s show on November 30, 2020, and said, “There was a whole plot going on and a lot of peopl[...]
December 14th, 2022 - 4:03 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Trump launches another frivolous libel lawsuit
Let’s start with this, because that’s also where it ends. “Trump has long used the courts to go after his opponents and to get attention for his own claims. It’s a pattern that goes back decades before his presidency<” The Hill reported on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 (r[...]
December 14th, 2022 - 9:31 am § in Hypocrisy, News Media
Another example of why Fox is disreputable
Fox doesn’t do news, it does persuasion. Its talk shows, which are pure demagoguery, are by far its most popular fare. And its hosts are close-minded, intellectually dishonest pot-stirrers and hatemongers. They’re also liars. Take Laura Ingraham, for example, one of Fox‘s worst off[...]
December 12th, 2022 - 8:43 pm § in News Media, Politics
Trust and Safety gone from Twitter
I’m sure that’s not how Musk wants the world to read it, but that’s how it literally reads. “Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council,” The Hill reported on Monday, December 12, 2022 (read story here). An email announcing the move said the counci[...]
November 27th, 2022 - 8:37 pm § in News Media
Why are Fox hosts so screwed up?
Lisa Booth (bio here) had a good upbringing, so don’t blame her parents for her ending up at Fox News. Booth, a Republican staffer and campaign operative before landing at Fox, is an anti-vaxxer. She ranted on air that the U.S. isn’t better than China about “taking away the freedom[...]