• Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment

    Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommend a “scream” rating (scale of one to five). This post contains the “Liberal Media Screams” starting in January 2023. > For 2021 and 2022, for all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.)...

  • Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment

    Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommend a “scream” rating (scale of one to five). This post contains the “Liberal Media Screams” starting in January 2023. > For 2021 and 2022, for all of 2020. For all of 2019. For all of 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.)...

  • Liberal Media Scream: Joy Reid wants prison, not airport, named for Trump

    This week’s Liberal Media Scream revealed again just how easy it is to make cable TV hosts suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” go nuts. With Congress on Easter break, there wasn’t much Capitol Hill news last week. So when a report was posted about a GOP proposal to rename Dulles International Airport after former President […]

  • Washington Examiner

    The adoption of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies at the expense of profit generation has imposed an unnecessary tax on millions of people. Few, if any, shareholders vote to forgo returns to promote social or diversity objectives, yet that’s exactly what’s happening in boardrooms across the country. Business leaders across corporate America have been adopting […]

  • Research examines tweets during Hurricane María to analyze social media use during disasters

    Social media can be a useful tool for communicating during extreme weather events. Omar Pérez Figueroa, an urban and regional planning professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, examined how Twitter (now X) was used when Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico in 2017.

  • FAST Media, Gedeon Media partner to create documentary channel Docstory

    MIPTV: Free streaming outfit FAST Media has teamed up with French documentary powerhouse Gedeon Media Group to launch Docstory, a streaming channel dedicated to documentaries in French-speaking countries.

  • Liberals Love the Minimum Wage — Though It Hurts People Liberals Love

    On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the view that such a wage hike — 25% above the state’s current minimum wage — hurts teenagers who disproportionately benefit from fast-food jobs and for whom this becomes their entry into the job market. Newsom said: “That’s a romanticized version of a world that doesn’t exist. We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that...

  • Liberals Love the Minimum Wage — Though It Hurts People Liberals Love

    On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the view that such a wage hike — 25% above the state’s current minimum wage — hurts teenagers who disproportionately benefit from fast-food jobs and for whom this becomes their entry into the job market. Newsom said: “That’s a romanticized version of a world that doesn’t exist. We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that...

  • [Newsstand] The media is not the press

    Confusing one with the other allows disinformation peddlers like SMNI to claim rights they don’t possess

  • The media mourn a murderer

    If you glanced at the headlines from the legacy media outlets about the death of Orenthal James Simpson this week, you might think that he was a famous football player who overcame a racist judicial system instead of the murderer he was. Simpson infamously killed his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman […]

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