A person named Audrey Elizabeth Hale, age 28, gunned down 3 teachers and 3 children at a private Christian school before being killed by police gunfire. The incident occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, March 27, 2023. That evening, the Fox News headlines blared, Nashville police identify tw[...]
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March 28th, 2023 - 12:20 am § in News Media
Are conservative media exploiting a school shooting to demonize LGBQT people?
March 13th, 2023 - 8:30 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Law school question
Tenino and Tukwila are municipalities in the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia area. Tukwila fired a police officer in 2017 after internal investigations found he “falsified reports, failed to report the use of force and showed a pattern of using a taser or threatening to use one when it wasn’t warrant[...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]
March 5th, 2023 - 5:51 pm § in America, Biden, China, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy, News Media, Politics, Republicans, Russia
Fact-checking Trump’s CPAC lies
Journalist, pesky creatures they are, like to fact-check political speeches. CNN says Trump delivered a “doozy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. on Saturday, March 4, 2023 (see story here). By now, his M.O. is familiar: Portray America as a post-a[...]
Murdoch faces new legal difficulties, but so what?
Dominion Voting Systems has the Fox network dead-to-rights: They lied about the company, knew they were lying, but put the lies on the air to make money. Fox is going to pay Dominion a lot of money (but can afford to). But now Fox is in another kind of hot water. Biden’s campaign ran ads [&hel[...]
Crybaby DeSantis “boycotts” NBC for criticizing him
“A spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has announced that the governor will be ‘boycotting’ NBC and MSNBC, over remarks that Andrea Mitchell made about his education policy during an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris,” Raw Story said on Wednesday, February 22, 20[...]
Fox host attacks Lego toys as “woke”
“A legendary toy line expanding its product portfolio to make children feel more inclusive has offended a popular Fox News host who considers the move to be ‘woke’ behavior,” Raw Story reported on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (see story here). It’s hard to tell whether [...]
Rightwing dirty trickster reportedly ousted by his group
James O’Keefe (photo, left; bio here) is an unsavory far-right political operative who created “Project Veritas” (profile here), a group that “produces deceptively edited videos” to smear legitimate media organizations and liberal groups. O’Keefe is a professiona[...]
Fox News is in serious hot water
Millions of Americans watch only Fox News, and don’t get news from any other source, which is a great big problem. It’s a great big problem because Fox is propaganda, not news. It’s brainwashing, not informing, its audiences. Its top opinion-shaper, Tucker Carlson, is a Russia symp[...]
February 10th, 2023 - 9:59 pm § in Misc., News Media
The homeless camp dilemma
Homeless camps are a real pain, there’s no denying it. Neighbors very legitimately want the campers to leave and the sites cleaned up. More often than not, unsponsored encampments are very bad neighbors. The campers litter, start fires, do drugs, steal, and sometimes commit violent crimes. But[...]