Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026
Judge orders Trump White House to restore access to CNN, MS Now and Politico
US district judge orders temporary lifting of Trump’s ban on the three media outlets, saying it was likely unconstitutional…
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Fox News, NYT, AP and other media outlets jointly condemn Trump’s media ban - POLITICO
The brief was signed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents’ Association and 49 other media organizations. That list runs the ideological gamut, from Fox News to Vox Media, and includes every major television broadcast network, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among others…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/23/trump-media-ban-news-outlet-brief-01090259
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Trump’s Desperate for TV Cameras Until They Tell the Truth – Mother Jones
The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC said in a joint statement of solidarity. Those five networks belong to the White House television press pool and rotate daily to provide reporting, video, and audio of the president’s daily events to share with other outlets around the world…
Major TV networks decline White House pool duties - POLITICO
The move could make it more difficult for images and video of President Donald Trump’s activities at the United Nations General Assembly this week to get to the American public. The television pool provides video from events where space constraints prevent every outlet from sending its own camera crew, with footage then made available broadly to news organizations…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/21/networks-white-house-pool-duty-01086044
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Weekly Roundup: Fauci McCarthyism, Elon's Revenge Porn Lawsuit, Trump Africa AI Scandal (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
On the Weekly Roundup, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller breakdown three stories:
1. The GOP pursuit of Anthony Fauci over COVID era decisions and funding.
1. The GOP pursuit of Anthony Fauci over COVID era decisions and funding.
2. A new poll that shows 66% of MAGA supporters would continue to push for a candidate accused of sexual assault + Elon Musk's lawsuit against a law that bans nudifying AI.
3. The State Department's humiliating mistake in using an error-filled AI-generated map of Africa.
The thesis: You can't have democracy without shared facts, shared reality, and universal accountability.
(00:00) – Introduction and technological mishaps
(01:03) – The significance of shared facts and democracy
(04:12) – Democracy, truth, and trust: Maria Ressa’s insights
(08:39) – McCarthyism and the obsession with prosecuting Fauci
(12:14) – GOP's distraction tactics: From Fauci to election interference
(14:47) – The decline of literacy and its societal consequences
(19:23) – The post-literate society and the rise of influencers over facts
(22:46) – The crisis of accountability and the patriarchal narrative
(27:00) – Support for scandal-ridden politicians among GOP voters
(35:52) – The monstrous support for domestic abusers in politics
(44:42) – The suppression of free inquiry and Western civilization myths
(50:04) – AI, geography errors, and neglect of global health issues
(52:47) – Musk, deepfakes, and the devaluation of human life
(56:38) – Hope amid chaos: Reflections on political resilience and potential for change
The thesis: You can't have democracy without shared facts, shared reality, and universal accountability.
(00:00) – Introduction and technological mishaps
(01:03) – The significance of shared facts and democracy
(04:12) – Democracy, truth, and trust: Maria Ressa’s insights
(08:39) – McCarthyism and the obsession with prosecuting Fauci
(12:14) – GOP's distraction tactics: From Fauci to election interference
(14:47) – The decline of literacy and its societal consequences
(19:23) – The post-literate society and the rise of influencers over facts
(22:46) – The crisis of accountability and the patriarchal narrative
(27:00) – Support for scandal-ridden politicians among GOP voters
(35:52) – The monstrous support for domestic abusers in politics
(44:42) – The suppression of free inquiry and Western civilization myths
(50:04) – AI, geography errors, and neglect of global health issues
(52:47) – Musk, deepfakes, and the devaluation of human life
(56:38) – Hope amid chaos: Reflections on political resilience and potential for change
Interview:
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Brendan Carr Speaks Out on Jimmy Kimmel, the Media and Trump - POLITICO
Carr also refused to say it would be inappropriate for Trump to direct the FCC to investigate certain broadcasters or that there should be any limits on Trump using the FCC against media companies he doesn’t like...
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/07/31/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-interview-trump-01017275
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Obama’s Interior Secretary Goes Off on Trump & Talks His New Book (Find Out podcast)
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation that quickly turns to life under Trump — the crew and Salazar touch on immigration crackdowns, tariffs on wildfire-stricken countries, and how the sheer volume of Trump-era news drowns out everything else that matters, public lands and conservation included.
From there it gets personal: Salazar talks about his debut book and swaps old stories with Tim about pickup basketball games at the Department of the Interior — including the time he tried to recruit Reggie Love and had to be talked into building Interior's first digital program back when he could barely turn on an iPad.
Interview:
From there it gets personal: Salazar talks about his debut book and swaps old stories with Tim about pickup basketball games at the Department of the Interior — including the time he tried to recruit Reggie Love and had to be talked into building Interior's first digital program back when he could barely turn on an iPad.
Interview:
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Media scion James Murdoch strikes deal to purchase New York magazine and Vox | PBS News
James Murdoch, a former CEO of 21st Century Fox who resigned from the board of News Corporation in 2020 over differences about content and direction, is known to hold less conservative views than his father...
Friday, May 8, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit
"Those who drafted the first amendment believed that the nation's security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech," US district court judge Paul Friedman wrote in his opinion. "That principle has preserved the nation's security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now."…
"Especially in light of the country's recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing", Friedman wrote…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-judge-blocks-pentagon-policy
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Pete Hegseth attacks media for not being positive enough about US attacks on Iran
US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/pete-hegseth-iran-was-us-press
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Brief: Bishop Bootlicker Barron (Conspirituality podcast)
Matthew digs into the fascism-enabling political theology of Bishop Robert Barron and the rightward slide of Big Catholic media. From his early admiration of Thomas Merton—carefully stripped of his antiwar and anti-capitalist passion—to his praise for Jordan Peterson, Marco Rubio, and Charlie Kirk, Barron repackages Red Scare tropes in the language of beauty, civility, and “religious liberty.”
And what about his virtual silence on ICE operations in Minnesota and the suffering of immigrants within his own diocese? What does “religious freedom” mean when it defends American exceptionalism more than human beings?
Show Notes and Interview:
https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-bishop-bootlicker-barron
Saturday, March 7, 2026
‘You unbelievable coward’: conservative US media in open warfare over Iran
The tension between Carlson and Levin traces back to at least June 2025, when Carlson accused Levin of "lobbying for war with Iran" during a private lunch with Trump at the White House. Levin called Carlson a "maggot", and Carlson referred to Levin as a "warmonger". He used the same label for another former Fox News colleague, Sean Hannity. (This week, Kelly called her former colleague Hannity "a supplicant to Donald Trump" and said "he would never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up".)…
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Chicago TV producer’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say
Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent's claim she 'threw objects' at border patrol car…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/chicago-ice-tv-producer-arrest
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