Buffy the Body Shamer
Honestly, what did the media used to do before the advent of social media? Where did they find the never-ending supply of material to use as a filler and click-bait? …
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The problem with white men
When life gives you Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: CNN's Don Lemon: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is …
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The Mysterious Case of a Missing Journalist
A Saudi journalists disappears inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey and is now presumed dead, so you know you can count on “The Huffington Post” for the take so hot …
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Cartoons in black and white
The last time a cartoon created controversy people died. Hopefully this time all there is to it is a lot of hot air:* America has responded with shock and disgust …
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No regulation out of frustration
This sounds more like trolling than a serious proposal, but nowadays you never know: President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concern that …
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Jihad, it’s a struggle
It’s weird how the year’s weirdest news story – and its sparse coverage – are getting weirder and weirder. Let’s recap the facts so far: Five adults arrested in a …
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Good News from Everywhere
If you are depressed from reading the daily news, it’s nothing new – “if it bleeds, it leads” as an editorial philosophy that much predates the Trump presidency or for …
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Twelve Scared Men and Seven Angry News Organisations
High drama at the intersection of politics, judicial system and the media: Paul Manafort’s trial will stretch into a fourth week, as jurors headed home Friday without reaching a verdict …
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Forecast: There will be a lot of punching
As I wrote a few days ago, the “Unite the Right” rally in Washington DC over the weekend united some two dozen white supremacists for a complete fizzer. By contrast, …
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Welcome to the new anti-hate hate
Lots has been happening in the United States in the last few days, though if I were relying only on the mainstream media to inform me the mental picture I …
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Gone, gone, going… How the media disappears the news
Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip on the radar and the third one is now on …
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Left academic: “If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?”
One of the most delightful recent political developments to watch is radicals and progressives waking up with a rude start to the fact that the cultural rules they have created …
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Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners
Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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Lest we forget the press
The closing para from an op-ed by a Notre Dame ethics professor Joseph Holt, published by CNN (“Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely the author’s.” Yeah, in a technical …
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Museum folds like a cheap t-shirt
Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …
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Not-breaking news: NYT hires another leftist racist
The Newspaper of Record has been in a tiny spot of bother lately, on the account of its decision to bring onto its editorial board an exciting new voice of …
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