Fox News
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I Can’t Stand Fox News, But Censoring It Might Be The Dumbest Idea Ever
Two and a half years ago, when Alex Jones of Infowars was kicked off a series of tech platforms in a clearly coordinated decision, I knew this was not going to be an isolated thing. Continue reading
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The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil destroys Trump’s Venezuela coup on Fox News—not CNN, or MSNBC, or any other liberal platform
The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss the corporate media’s abysmal coverage of the US-led coup attempt against Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘We Don’t Do Propaganda’
Earlier this month, Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, author of ‘Utopia For Realists’, was interviewed by the high-profile Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson. During a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Janary, Bregman had bluntly told billionaires that they should stop avoiding taxes and pay their fair share: Continue reading
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Media Spent Months Lionizing General Who Defended Slaveholders' Revolt
According to corporate media, the top general who just complimented the commander of the slavery-defending Confederacy is the greatest hope to rein in President Donald Trump’s extremism. Continue reading
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‘Media’s First Instinct Is to Strip Ideology From the Conversation’
Janine Jackson: The spectre of white supremacists marching with guns and torches, throwing KKK salutes, and screaming about Jews and Commies is a test for Americans, individually and institutionally, and we’re still seeing how various folks are responding. One of the primary institutions that should be asking themselves some questions right now are corporate media. Continue reading
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After Charlottesville By S. Artesian
The nazi-right, stoked on secret hand signals from Stephen Miller; stroked and groomed by Rupert Murdoch and Fox and Friends; decided to make the removal [of] the statue honoring the traitorous general of the traitorous army of the slaveholder traitors’ rebellion the call to arms, with the arms being this time a tricked out retro-new… Continue reading
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After US Bombs Syrian Government for Third Time in 8 Months, Media Ask Few Questions
The United States has bombed Syrian government–allied forces three times in just eight months. Major media outlets have overwhelmingly failed to ask critical questions about these incidents, preferring instead to echo the Pentagon. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Let’s Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman’ – Bombing Syria
One of the great Freudian slips of our time was supplied by a Fox News anchor on March 24, 1999, as Nato was preparing to wage war on Yugoslavia: ‘Let’s bring in our Pentagon spokesman – excuse me, our Pentagon correspondent.’ For indeed the unwritten rule informing this type of journalism is: if you want… Continue reading
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‘Radioactive’ Putin Is ‘Stalin’s Spawn’ By Peter Hart
Putin, by Jem SullivanIf there were a guide for corporate media treatment of Official Enemies, the first rule might be that you can hardly ever go too far. So Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Crimean region of Ukraine meant that he was either “taking a page out of the Hitler playbook,” as Fox… Continue reading
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Syria: The US Military-Industrial complex tied to pro-war propaganda
Military analysts who recently made frequent appearances on major US media outlets to make the case for a military strike against Syria have ties to prominent defense contractors and other firms with stakes in the conflict, according to a new report. Continue reading
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The Accelerating Assault on Journalism
U.S. soldier Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning’s 35-year sentence represents the harshest punishment issued to date for providing media with evidence of government wrongdoing (Forbes, 8/21/13). She is the first whistleblower to be convicted under the Espionage Act, ratifying the new reality that those who give the press information that the government wants to keep secret… Continue reading
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The Rolling Stone Cover and the 'New Ideological Threat' By Emily Masters
The fear mongers are up in arms, since the cover and the accompanying article exploring how Tsarnaev went from being “just like any other kid” to becoming an alleged mass murderer bucks their formula. To them, there is no use delving into his peaceful past to learn what turned him into a brutal killer. Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: "North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map"
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: “North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map”
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Are Iranian Magnets the New Aluminum Tubes? By Peter Hart
In the run up to the Iraq War, the New York Times (9/8/02) famously reported on an Iraqi scheme to procure special aluminum tubes that could only have one purpose: Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein was attempting to “buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes,” and the “diameter, thickness and other technical specifications… Continue reading
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FAIR: When Is a Mandate Not a Mandate?
When it comes to explaining election results, there’s no precise way to determine whether voters gave the winner a “mandate”–defined by Oxford as “the authority to carry out a policy, regarded as given by the electorate to a party or candidate that wins an election.” That makes it interesting to see how media use the… Continue reading
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Video: Out-FOXed: What’s NOT happening in Moscow — RT
I don’t harbor any hopes that the FOX people will see this and suddenly change their ‘errant ways’. But for the viewers – there are no palm trees in the streets of Moscow, the Prime Minister is spelled ‘PuTin’, not ‘PuTTin’ and the plural for ‘protester’ is ‘protesterS’. For future references. Continue reading
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Video: Out-FOXed: What’s NOT happening in Moscow — RT
I don’t harbor any hopes that the FOX people will see this and suddenly change their ‘errant ways’. But for the viewers – there are no palm trees in the streets of Moscow, the Prime Minister is spelled ‘PuTin’, not ‘PuTTin’ and the plural for ‘protester’ is ‘protesterS’. For future references. Continue reading
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It’s an (English) dog’s life By William Bowles
Franco’s insurrection could never have succeeded without the military support of Hitler’s Germany and the alleged ‘neutrality’ of the Western powers that effectively isolated the Republican government. Even the Soviet Union’s role, ostensibly supporting the Republican government, was motivated by a similar nationalist thinking to its vacillation over Libya and with the same, predictable and… Continue reading