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NBC has learned nothing
Main Monday, July 26, 2021NBC has learned nothingBela Karolyi earned fame as the coach of U.S. gymnastics because of his outsized reactions to the athletes' performances, which NBC cameras showed…
The Right Coast
Meet the Censored: Bret Weinstein – TK News by Matt Taibbi
This is a significant moment in the history of American media. If a show with the audience that Weinstein and Heying have can be put out of business this easily,…
Media Law Prof Blog
Newly Published: Hugh Macleod, COVID-19 and the Media: A Pandemic of Paradoxes (IMS, 2021) @forfreemedia
Hugh Macleod has published COVID-19 and the Media: A Pandemic of Paradoxes (International Media Support, 2021). Here is the abstract.Following the COVID-19 pandemic, amid collapsing revenues and a rising torrent…
The Right Coast
CNN accused of running Chinese propaganda after boosting country’s COVID vaccination rates provided by China | Fox News
CNN also celebrated China's ability to contain COVID despite being the pandemic's country of origin, writing "Due to China's successful containment of the coronavirus, many residents initially saw little urgency…
The Right Coast
The media’s lab leak fiasco – Slow Boring
Among actual scientists, it is much less clear to me what the conventional wisdom ever actually ways. Politifact s now-retracted fact check deeming lab leak theorists to have their pants…
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The Sovietization of the American Press – TK News by Matt Taibbi
The old con of the Manufacturing Consent era of media was a phony show of bipartisanship. Legitimate opinion was depicted as a spectrum stretching all the way from moderate Democrats…
The Right Coast
Rush Limbaugh: Remembering A Conservative Messenger Who Changed the Dialogue | National Review
Rush was a unique talent. He started his national radio show in July of 1988, just as Ronald Reagan was preparing to leave the national stage. By the time National…
The Right Coast
Sebastian Gorka likes to be called Dr. Gorka. He gets his way only in conservative media. – The Washington Post
Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to President Trump, really, really likes to be called Dr. Gorka a hang-up for which he was mocked last week by comedian Samantha Bee.On Twitter,…
Simple Justice
Opportunity Cost of Certitude
Whether you once liked them or never liked them, their decision to walk away was jarring. This year, several high-profile writers have left left-leaning publications after running afoul of what…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Election Coverage Now Comes From Blogs
Election coverage now comes from blogs. Whether they be blogs run by the mainstream media, blogs that have the status of mainsteam media, such as FiveThirtyEight, blogs published by legal…