Businesses that report on scarce occurrences of interest to the public, such as elections, airplane crashes, stock market fluctuations and sporting events. It is generally a term used to refer to methods of communicating to the general public, whether the communicated information is factual or opinion-based. Common media include newspapers, TV and radio. The U.S. media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated their control over what we see, hear and read. In many cases, these giant companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution; the concentration of media ownership isn’t just a problem in the U.S. it’s happening worldwide.
The media has expended to include various sources of alternative media including websites and blogs, YouTube channels, etc. The freedom of press is an important antidote to government corruption and other shenanigans, but this freedom can also be abused. It only takes a small amount of misreporting by the media to create a myth that will require years to rectify.
The Media Research Center released a study in 2008 reporting pro-atheism bias by major press outlets in the U.S. The study found that 80% of mainstream media coverage of atheism was positive and that 71% of Christian-themed stories had an atheist counterpoint or were written from an atheist perspective. The study is not surprising given the liberal bias that commonly exists in the major media outlets.1
Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is filing lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and Google after the firms suspended his social media accounts six months ago over his comments after the Jan. 6 Capitol incident. Speaking from his property in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump and his team said the lawsuits are about protecting the First Amendment right to free speech. They argued that his rights were denied when the ...
Dr. Robert Malone, who identifies himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, said that LinkedIn recently deleted his account after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and questioned whether they’re appropriate to give to certain groups of people. “My business pays for linked in premium. I have been deleted,” Malone wrote on Twitter this week. “Purchased a service from linked in to promote my company. This is very ...
Gab CEO Andrew Torba revealed that Donald Trump never joined Gab because Jared Kushner “specifically had problems with people [on the site] criticizing Jewish people, and Zionism, and policies related to Israel.” “I mean, that’s specifically what I was told, is ‘You have to do something about these people.'” Torba said during an interview with TruNews. “He called them Jew haters, I call them Jew criticizers.” Torba said ...
The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries, a report released Wednesday found. That’s worse than Poland, worse than the Philippines, worse than Peru. (Finland leads at 65%.) The annual digital news report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford also found some improvement in trust in nearly all the countries surveyed ...
On June 22, 2021, a message appeared on the websites of a series of Iranian and regional television networks that claimed their domains had been “seized by the United States Government,” accompanied by the seals of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Commerce Department. The US government seizure of the .com domains of 33 foreign news websites, including Press TV, is an outrageous attack ...
Hecker, who serves as a dayside reporter primarily for the five and six o’clock news, came forward to Project Veritas with recordings of her colleagues and superiors showing a pattern of “censorship” on COVID-19 and Bitcoin-related stories. She also highlighted a pattern of submission among the local affiliate’s leadership to Fox’s corporate interests, rather than acting in the interest of transparency with its viewers. “Viewers are ...
The ABC journalist who broke the infamous story about the 2016 tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch has been found dead in his apartment. The body of Christopher Sign, 45, was found in his Birmingham, Alabama apartment on Saturday morning around 8 a.m. His death is being investigated as a suicide, according to police Lt. Keith Czeskleba. “Our deepest sympathy is shared ...
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that nations coming out of the pandemic need to “build back better” in a “greener,” “more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.” “I think the inequalities may be entrenched. We need to make sure as we recover, we level up across our societies and we build back better,” the Conservative Party prime minister began in ...
Nickelodeon facing backlash after releasing a video of a creepy drag queen singing about Pride in front of a trans-flag. The video also prominently features the black power fist. The clip was posted to TikTok. It is currently unclear if they intend to air it on the network as well. Of course, with this one, Nickelodeon went too far for many parents, one of whom asked ...
Laura Loomer crashed an annual bitcoin conference on Friday and confronted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Loomer is often referred to as the “most banned woman in the world.” After Dorsey took the stage, Loomer rushed to the front of the crowd to confront him over his election meddling. In 2018, Loomer was banned from Twitter for calling Rep. Ilhan Omar “anti-Jewish.” “How can you say that ...
