“I bet you didn’t think M&M’s were pushing intolerance, but they were!” Tucker Carlson ranted when Mars Inc. changed Green M&M’s boots. He also called Purple M&M “obese.” “M&M’s will not be satisfied until every last cartoon chara[...]
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January 29th, 2023 - 2:29 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
When police write news stories
Tyre Nichols was kicked and beaten to death on January 7, 2023, by five cops charged with murder. Memphis police issued the press release below the next day. Even making allowances for incomplete information, it’s a remarkable whitewash. By the way, the police chief has admitted there’s [...]
America’s most partisan judge takes on anti-vaxxer lawsuit against media
Matthew J. Kacsmaryk (photo, left; bio here), 45, is a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas. A Catholic (as are all 6 of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices), he graduated from a private, non-Catholic Bible college that was all-white until 1962 and prohibits same-sex dating by its empl[...]
How stupid is Fox News?
“Fox News host Harris Faulkner accused President Joe Biden of threatening a border official by merely clearing his throat” (see story here, watch video below). Look, Fox News isn’t journalism, it’s entertainment catering to people who attend Trump rallies and make down paymen[...]
A conversation between two election crackpots
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[...]
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[...]