There’s always the expectation of a shocking reveal in any documentary about a high-profile event, because if there isn’t, then why make it in the first place? The assassination of North Korea’s leader’s half-brother in Kuala Lumpur Airport in 2017 was that sort of incident. One big reason why it …
Read More »Americans’ trust in mainstream media has never been lower – but journalists insist it’s the audience’s fault, not theirs
Long headed for collapse, Americans’ trust in the media establishment hit an all time low in 2021, falling three points overall to just 46 percent, according to Edelman’s most recent annual survey. The figure marks the first time Americans’ trust of journalism sank below the 50 percent mark. Americans’ trust …
Read More »Mainstream media goes full Orwell telling readers they’re using the word ‘Orwellian’ wrong
News outlet USA Today has managed to personify the term ‘Orwellian’ in its profoundly condescending writeup scolding readers for “using the term ‘Orwellian’ wrong.” Published on Monday, the piece goes to great lengths to shame those insecure about their vocabulary by suggesting the term “Orwellian” can only be used correctly …
Read More »Mainstream journalist sets off alarm bells as he calls for ‘cleansing’ of Trump supporters
“Trump will be an ex-president in 13 days. The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be somethingelse,” Klein tweeted on Thursday, linking to a story claiming the US Capitol breach on Wednesday exposed “threats [that] will outlast” the president. The piece …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The two-faced mainstream media is already using the Washington riot to call for more social media censorship
The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole country is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its …
Read More »White Helmets founder Le Mesurier is now a mainstream saint, but leaked docs raise questions about his widow’s role
First, in late October, came a 6,000-word hagiography in The Guardian — less than a fortnight later, the BBC transmitted a 15-part radio documentary on his firm, Mayday Rescue. Emma Winberg, Le Mesurier’s spouse and Mayday’s Chief Impact Officer, played a starring role in both efforts, in the process breaking …
Read More »US election polling data reveals that mainstream media is largely divorced from its audience
While the dust has yet to settle in the American presidential race, exit polling data already gives us an x-ray of who the voters were and why they made the choices they did at the ballot box in favor of either Joe Biden or Donald Trump. The data proves that …
Read More »By backing censorship of Hunter Biden story, mainstream media only hurt their own cause
To say that the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s emails was big news would be an understatement. The same can be said about social media outlets clamping down on the story, seemingly trying to bury it as soon as possible. In the aftermath, there have been odd defenses …
Read More »Hunter Biden’s conflict of interest silenced by ‘fake mainstream media’, but Trump’s own people are in on cover-up
Joe Biden should “leave the campaign” because he “knew everything” about his son Hunter’s shady business dealings overseas, Trump said on Thursday in an exclusive interview with Fox News Radio. He was referring to the 87-page report, published Wednesday by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees, which …
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