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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Saturday, August 1, 2026
ABC argues that early license review by FCC is ‘retaliation’ for network’s coverage
“The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: Accommodate the administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,” lawyers representing the Disney-owned network wrote in a 109-page filing, submitted as a reply to petitions from conservative media groups to deny ABC’s licenses. “The tools vary; the objective does not: a media industry too fearful of official reprisal to report the news freely.”…
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Another Big Reason to Worry About Bari Weiss’ Tenure at CBS News – Mother Jones
"In the two weeks that she has worked at the network, Ms. Weiss has not promoted any articles or reporting from CBS News on her X account, which reaches 1.1 million followers…As a Middle East peace deal came into view, Ms. Weiss shared numerous pro-Israel opinion pieces from The Free Press, and an editorial that said Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, had failed 'the Hamas test.'" She seemed more interested in opinion warfare than news reporting. And according to Status, Weiss has been considering hiring Fox News host Bret Baier and bringing back to CBS News Catherine Herridge, who was laid off from the network last year and whose past work included credulously reporting hyped-up Republican charges of Democratic misdeeds…
Who or what is left to protect reality? Who's going to vet the AI-orchestrated falsehoods to come? This is what we need the media for. Major news organizations will have to assume the task of quickly scrutinizing disinformation and misinformation, telling us whether the video of a tsunami heading toward the West Coast or another of thugs beating up a senator or one of explosions in downtown Chicago are legitimate. When a video appears of a political candidate confessing to a heinous crime or telling a racist joke, we will need to look to a source to determine whether that occurred. This should be the job of major news operations…
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward
Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount's chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS.
Paramount's decision is a striking sign of US media giants' continued rightward drift – not least because Weiss's own recent career trajectory could be said to mirror the larger pendulum swing that has taken many corporate media companies from cautious allies of the anti-Trump "resistance" to fearful supplicants before a new Maga order...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/06/bari-weisss-cbs-news-analysis
CBS News staffers react to Barri Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’
"It's utterly depressing. Somebody who has zero experience in television news or even hard news for that matter... but with a clearly defined political agenda," said another staffer. "It's hard to see this as anything more than an attempt to bend the knee completely."
They added: "It's early days and we don't know exactly how it's going to pan out … or what she will do with her role, but she is the last person who should be brought in to CBS."…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/07/cbs-news-staffers-react-bari-weiss-appointment
Sunday, September 7, 2025
How Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model
Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their content…
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage | BBC | The Guardian
It will see the BBC compete directly with the likes of CNN, headed by the former BBC director general Mark Thompson, which is launching a streaming subscription service later this year...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/26/bbc-usa-paid-subscription-news
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Take the New York Times News quiz!
Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers…
Monday, November 4, 2024
This Just in From Heaven - The Atlantic
Within that world, FlashPoint has emerged as the premier outlet for the most trusted prophets with the largest followings, and a venue for politicians eager to reach that audience. By now, Bailey has interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Trump himself. Most important, the show has become a kind of command center for the people Trump refers to as "my Christians." In a sense, FlashPoint is where God's memo goes out, which makes it all the more noteworthy that, in recent weeks, the prophecies have become more apocalyptic…
Bailey brought on a pastor who cast himself as a reporter, who said that he had "confirmed that the FBI had a busload of antifa people come in and infiltrate the rally." The host tossed to a prophet named Mario Murillo, who said, "I know that there is a spirit in the land that wants to take away our Christian rights and our freedoms and that today we demonstrated to them we are not going to let this happen—and anyone who thinks this ends tonight is totally mistaken." Wallnau Zoomed in from Trump International Hotel in Washington. He described the march to the Capitol as a "giant Disney parade," and said the violence had been carried out not by "our people" but by antifa and Black Lives Matter, calling them "the devil's people." Bailey turned to Kunneman: "What's God showing you?" Kunneman videoed in from Omaha, calling the violence "a smokescreen from the Devil." "Remember," he continued. "Big God, little devil. Big God, little corrupt Democrat rat. Big God, little Republican pathetic person that cannot stand for their democracy." People clapped…
Friday, June 7, 2024
Epoch Times Exec ARRESTED... Bonkers Details Emerge
China's Falun Gong group launched the Epoch Times as an anti-Chinese Communist Party propaganda newsletter over two decades ago. Since then, Epoch Times has donated a staggering amount of money to pro-Trump advertising and other far-right campaigns. Now, the company's CFO, Bill Guan is under federal investigation for alleged cryptocurrency money laundering. Yasmin Khan breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
‘Full fascist’ Trump condemned after ‘treason’ rant against NBC and MSNBC | Donald Trump | The Guardian
"There you have it, folks," it said. "While Trump and his Republican enablers love to falsely accuse Democrats of 'weaponising' the government against Trump, Trump himself is now openly threaten[ing] to weaponise the presidency to completely remove entire news channels from the airwaves simply because they expose his rampant criminality."…
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Fox News Totally Botches Slam On Unhealthy 'Blue' Cities, Which Were Actually Healthiest | HuffPost Latest News
An example of why people who watch Fox know less about current events than people who watch no news at all…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-dan-bongino-healthiest-error_n_6200743ce4b0b69cfe90aa9b
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-dan-bongino-healthiest-error_n_6200743ce4b0b69cfe90aa9b
Sunday, August 29, 2021
National Religious Broadcasters spokesperson fired after pro-vaccine remarks on 'Morning Joe'
Daniel Darling's exit came after the organization determined his comments violated an internal policy of remaining neutral about Covid-19 vaccines...
Thursday, June 17, 2021
School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations
… "First of all, we're talking about fake news," Stauber said in the interview, years before the term would become a household slogan popularized by Trump. "And what this is, actually, is propaganda, because these are not news stories. They look like news stories, but they have a bias in favor of a political program or an ideology or a product. And the networks and stations that air these, and we're talking about thousands of these produced a year, are engaging simply in plagiarism and fraud, fraud perpetrated on their viewers."…
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Opening Arguments Blocked in Australia?! (Opening Arguments podcast OA466)
Why is the OA Facebook page blocked in Australia? Well, it’s not just us, it’s every news page! We’ve got the deep dive into why Facebook is blocking us and why Google isn’t, even though they were targeted by the same law.
Before that, we take a look at a truly terrible bill out of South Carolina that is going to be model legislation in a post-Roe America. It’s every bit as anti-choice as you think and then some. Finally, a look at an absurd and pathetic attempt by Georgia Republicans to shield Trump from likely indictment by amending the constitution!
Interview:
Before that, we take a look at a truly terrible bill out of South Carolina that is going to be model legislation in a post-Roe America. It’s every bit as anti-choice as you think and then some. Finally, a look at an absurd and pathetic attempt by Georgia Republicans to shield Trump from likely indictment by amending the constitution!
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