• 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 largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and sex with strangers. Dating sites typically try to match users with other users who live in the same city. Grindr’s executives worry that this standard is growing stale, according to media […]

  • Washington Examiner

    “Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone tall.” “Short guys like us? What’s that supposed to mean?” I said, not exactly in those words. I used a colorful Anglo-Saxon vulgarism in there, once or twice, for emphasis. My […]

  • Washington Examiner

    I am under no illusion that our allegedly right-wing elected officials can or even want to close the border, end the costly and unnecessary wars, balance the budget, protect the unborn, expand our right to bear arms meaningfully, or any of the other items promised every two, four, or six years. However, there is one […]

  • 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 […]

  • Study examines influence of social media on televised debate viewing

    Anyone who regularly watches news or sports has likely noticed the steady creep of content competing for screen space, whether it be stock market prices, social media posts, game scores or some other graphic display. Previous studies have indicated that high-intensity visuals that employ vibrant displays of information tend to hamper both long- and short-term memory.

  • 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.

  • Another Example of How the Liberal Media Doesn’t Support Trump Getting a Fair Trial

    The Constitution guarantees everyone the right to a fair trial. The presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial are cornerstones of American values. Yet Democrats, who claim to be the party of protecting "our democracy," have made it abundantly clear that they would not afford Trump the same fairness that they would demand for anyone else.

  • 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.