MEDIA

Trump’s Daily Covid-19 Media Attacks Dovetail With His Political Fundraising

Keith GirardMarch 30, 2020

Donald Trump’s daily media attacks at his COVID-19 briefings appears to be part of a coordinated effort to aid his political fundraising efforts....

CULTUREMEDIAPOLITICS

Donald Trump COVID crisis: The president has been infected by COVID-19. He is at severe risk of death. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Donald Trump vs. New York Times: Libel Suit Marks Start of Assault on Media

Keith GirardFebruary 26, 2020

Donald Trump has fired the first shot in his long-promised war on the media with a libel lawsuit against The New York Times over its coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election....

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Google, YouTube to Pay $170 Million for Tracking Personal Info on Children

Keith GirardSeptember 4, 2019

Google and YouTube repeatedly violated a federal law that protects children from being tracked online and will pay $170 million in a nationwide settlement....

MEDIASCIENCE & TECH

Tucker Carlson Tries to Defend Indefensible Hate Speech; Colbert Takes Him Down

Keith GirardMarch 12, 2019

Tucker Carlson has decided to go the Nixonian limited hangout route to defend sexist, mysogynistic remarks he made on a radio show a decade ago, but Stephen Colbert artfully dismantled him last night....

COMEDYMEDIAPOLITICS

Alex Jones ‘Backdoor’ Accounts Used to Spread False News Found on Twitter

Keith GirardOctober 23, 2018

Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy monger who’s responsible for some of the most far-fetched fake news stories, has been secretly operating through as many as 18 “backdoor” accounts on Twitter following his ban from the social media service....

MEDIA

Fox News Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity have been the biggest purveyors of Russian propaganda (Photos: Gage Skidmore)

Fox News Hard-Right Talking Heads Learn Hard Lesson: Advertisers Find Them Toxic

Keith GirardOctober 17, 2018

Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other hard-right Fox News talking heads, who regularly traffic in conspiracy theories, outlandish claims and racist dog whistles, are becoming toxic for a critical audience–corporate advertisers....

MEDIA

Tucker Carlson Scolded By Journalist Brit Hume for Hate Mongering (See!)

Keith GirardSeptember 12, 2018

Tucker Carlson got a lesson in real journalism from veteran newsman Brit Hume, who scolded the Fox News propagandist for hate mongering in an appearance on Carlson’s own show. Carlson was reduced to nervous giggles by the take down....

MEDIA

Colin Kaepernick Nike Ad to Run on Thursday Night Football; See It Here!

Keith GirardSeptember 6, 2018

Colin Kaepernick may be out of football but he’ll appear tonight (Sept. 6) on NBC’s “Thursday Night Football” in his new Nike ad, which appears to score a touchdown of its own among Nike’s key customer demographics. ...

MEDIA

Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are joined at the hip in their support for white supremacist politics. (Photos: Getty)

New Yorker Waivers on Steve Bannon Festival Ban; Now, He’s Back, Sort of….

Keith GirardSeptember 3, 2018

The New Yorker’s top editor David Remnick took a stand on principle, then decided instead to stand on his wallet, after banning Steven K. Bannon from its fall festival, only to waiver and schedule him for a “private interview.”...

MEDIA

Village Voice Goes Way of The Village: Gentrification, Corporate Owners Killed It

Keith GirardAugust 31, 2018

The Village Voice was born in the cauldron that was Greenwich Village in New York City during the 1950s. Right off the bat, The Village was a shithole back-then, which meant rents were cheap, allowing a critical mass of artists, musicians, intellectuals and sundry radicals to congregate and make history....

MEDIA

Trump, Thumped on Twitter Blocks, Starts Adding Back Users; See Who!

Keith GirardAugust 29, 2018

Donald Trump, under a court order to stop blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account, began the process last night of re-opening the kingdom to critics, court jesters and sundry wits who were mostly banned because they bruised Trump’s ego....

MEDIA

Stormy Daniels All Dressed Up in Vogue, Elevating Adult Actress to Fashion Icon

Keith GirardAugust 28, 2018

Stormy Daniels, the epitome of a porn star with oversized breasts and big blonde hair, gets all dressed up in Vogue magazine’s September issue. Daniels, who poses with lawyer Michael Avenatti, released a sneak peek this morning on Instagram....

CULTUREMEDIA

Alex Jones who traffics in hard-right hate, conspiracy theories is pushing a fake coronavirus cure, officials say. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Alex Jones, Nowhere To Run, Nowhere to Hide, Begs Donald Trump for Help

Keith GirardAugust 6, 2018

Alex Jones, the bombastic, conspiracy and hate-mongering commentator, turned to Donald Trump today (Aug 6) with a near hysterical plea for help after Apple and Spotify axed nearly all of his podcasts, Facebook banned several of his pages and YouTube dropped most of his videos....

CULTUREMEDIAPOLITICS

Nada Marjanovich, ‘L. I. Pulse’ Publisher, Folds Magazine After 13 Years

Keith GirardAugust 3, 2018

Nada marjanovich, who carved out a niche in the shadow of New York City for an arts and lifestyle magazine and called it Long Island Pulse, is folding the publication after 13 years and 136 issues, she said in an editor’s note with the latest issue....

MEDIA

Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Wake Up: Fake News Still Rampant on Facebook

Keith GirardJuly 20, 2018

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg learned the hard way that he was an unwitting dupe in the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories that flooded his social media site during the 2016 election. But he still doesn’t get it. A new study by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalism in St. Petersburg, Fla., has found that two of the leading purveyors of fake news and conspiracy theories–InfoWars and YourNewsWire– are still publishing freely on Facebook....

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