Written by Tim Graham
Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN’s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called “misinformation.”
California U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney asked, “What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Anna Eshoo, Anthony Scaramucci, Axios, Brett Kavanaugh, Brian Stelter, BuzzFeed, CNBC, CNN, Deborah Ramirez, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Jerry McNerney, Joe Stalin, John King, Lanny Davis, Mao Zedong, Michael Cohen, MSNBC, NBC, NewsBusters, Oliver Darcy, Steele dossier, The New York Times, Thomas Frank
Media Watch | David E. Smith | 
February 26, 2021 7:00 AM | 
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Written by Michael Barone
Is it true that Donald Trump’s bad habits are contagious? Is it true that his Democratic opponents and, even more, his critics in the press are increasingly given to terminological inexactitudes, if not downright lies?
Sure looks like it. Last week, large parts of the press — we’re looking at you, CNN and MSNBC — were gleefully reporting and commenting on the BuzzFeed story about President Trump having allegedly ordered his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to members of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s staff.… Continue Reading
Tags: Black Hebrew Israelites, BuzzFeed, CNN, Covington Catholic High School, Donald, Emily Litella, Jeffrey Toobin, MAGA hat, Michael Cohen, MSNBC, Nathan Phillips, New York Times, Nick Sandmann, Robby Soave, Robert Mueller, Saturday Night Live
Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 28, 2019 6:47 AM | Comments Off on Does the Media Deserve to Be Respected and Believed?
Written by William Balgord And E. Calvin Beisner
Curiously, the mainstream media seem to have ignored the story, but it’s an important one. Buzzfeed reported August 7 that “YouTube Is Fighting Back Against Climate Misinformation.”
As of July 9, “YouTube is now adding fact checks to videos that question climate change … as a part of its ongoing effort to combat the rampant misinformation and conspiratorial fodder on its platform.”
But neither YouTube nor Wikipedia, the source of its “fact check,” is qualified to function as unassailable arbiter calling balls and strikes over what is or isn’t fact in any given field of human inquiry.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alfred P. Sloan, Anthony Leiserowitz, Bill Balgord, BuzzFeed, Climate Change, Climate Change Communication, CO2 emissions, E. Calvin Beisner, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, James Hansen, NASA, Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change, PragerU, Richard Lindzen, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Wikipedia, YouTube
Climate Change | David E. Smith | August 30, 2018 6:00 AM | Comments Off on YouTube Is Fighting against Scientific Inquiry and the Expansion of Human Knowledge
Written by Dr. Michael Brown
For years I have said that gay activists and their allies would overplay their hand and that their bullying would backfire. It is happening today in front of our eyes as a Christian couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines, who recently graced the cover of People magazine, is now being attacked simply for attending a Christian church. Oh, the thought of it!
Yes, if you are a public figure and you attend a church that preaches that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and you actually believe that homosexuals can be changed by the power of the gospel, you should be shamed, ridiculed, and perhaps even fired.… Continue Reading
