Tag: Fox News
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Welcome To Propaganda’s Golden Age
Kellyanne Conway – of all people – nailed Trumpism’s biggest contribution to American culture (it’s what makes The Big Lie possible). In response to a question about whether Trump’s then press-secretary had lied to the press, she claimed (on Meet The Press, January 22, 2017) “You’re saying it’s a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press…
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When “Doing Nothing” IS The Crime
Donald Trump did nothing. That was the the January 6 Commission’s big reveal during its prime time hearing last night. Trump did “nothing” during the three plus hours that he sat in the White House dining room watching the armed mob he’d sent to the Congress go to the Congress and trash it. Exactly as…
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The Trick To Defeating Republicans In 2022 (And Beyond) Is To Call Them What They Are: CRIMINALS
I’m old enough to remember when the GOP was one of America’s two principle political parties. Now there’s only one — the Democrats. The GOP can no longer honestly call itself a “political party” because the GOP can no longer honestly do ANYTHING. That’s not a small detail. It’s not exactly a secret either. The…
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The Reason Big Business Will Absolutely “Quit” The GOP Is The Same Reason Bill O’Reilly No Longer Works At Fox News
Hey, remember Bill O’Reilly? Bill sure wishes most of us did remember him. But, for most of America, O’Reilly sits in the “Whatever happened to?” heap and not anywhere near the top. The reason most people don’t even think about O’Reilly any more as a “choice” in the news-entertainment marketplace is exactly the same reason…
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Maybe Our News Media Shouldn’t Take Its Audience — US — For Granted…
Of all the things Team Biden must accomplish pronto on January 20, 2021, atop the list must be setting the Department Of Justice back onto a course of justice and away from its role as a mob boss POTUS’ consigliere. Had our news media not normalized a thousand terrible Trumpian behaviors as “different” rather than…
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Dear American News Media: YOU Will Be The Problem Until YOU Stop Being It
When your job is to tell our story in real time, as it’s happening, it’s vital that you know how to frame that story — in real time. If you screw up the framing, you’ll end up telling the wrong story. Our news media can’t ever get the Donald Trump story right because they insist…
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There Is Nothing Wrong With Advocacy Journalism — Hell, Our News Media Have Been Doing It For The Right Wing For Years
Quick — who are the most popular journalists at MSNBC? By journalists, I mean people capable of working journalistically because they’ll back up everything they say with receipts? Joy Reid just premiered her show The ReidOut to huge ratings. Rachel Maddow’s interview of Mary Trump killed everything else on TV the night it aired. Nicolle…