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April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THEY SHOULD START CHARGING TRUMP RENT FOR LIVING IN THEIR HEADS – Since January, each book at the top of The New York Times best-seller list has had one thing …

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April 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHO NEEDS RUSSIAN TROLLS? – Welcome down the rabbit hole where not only the fake news about the right are manufactured by the left but the fake news about the …

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April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SECRET TALKS – Shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone! Thanks, CNN.

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April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“THE NEW YORK TIMES” GETS RATIOED – For the non-hardcore Twitter folk, “ratioed” is a term that refers to a huge disparity between the number of comments your tweet attracts …

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March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SLATE’S SO CUTE WHEN IT’S DELUSIONAL – Truly: Two arguments in particular. Firstly: Moreover, if institutional bias is a problem for American society, then why haven’t conservatives tried to solve …

Politics

ABC’s War on Easter

March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When the war on Christmas is old and busted, the new and hot around town is the war on Easter: The water footprint of chocolate is 24,000 litres for every …

Culture / Politics

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRODUCING POPULAR CULTURE FOR HALF THE POPULATION – So it’s only half popular. As the “Roseanne” reboot smashes TV ratings in the US (18 million viewers and all that), some …

Politics

March 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT WASN’T THE RUSSIANS OR FACEBOOK – Do you know who really got Donald Trump elected? Do you want to know what made Trump president? It wasn't the thousands spent …

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March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WASHINGTON POST: “IT’S TIME TO GIVE SOCIALISM A TRY” – No, really: Bruening, who looks 12, is not some random who got lucky, but an opinion writer on the staff …

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March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 837 – Democratic Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, resigns in disgrace and pleads guilty to a charges of theft connected to a 2-year affair with her …

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March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 836 – Good news from the Korean peninsula: The secretive state could also impose a ban on further nuclear and missile tests during talks with …

Politics

Activists, supporters, and you – the Chrenk Manifesto

March 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Much of the left’s and the whole social justice warriorship’s political project is not at all about achieving equality as an end but merely as a half-way point in a …

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March 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MUST READ – I don’t even know which particular paragraphs from Matt Walsh’s latest piece “Why Does The Media Care More About The Parkland Shooting Than It Ever Did About …

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Listen to the victims – no, not these victims

February 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, had many survivors, but thanks to the media, two in particular emerged as the public faces and anti-gun anti-NRA …

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They’ll have to pry the agenda from the media’s cold, dead hands (UPDATED)

February 23, 2018February 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Whenever the issue of guns or gun violence pops up, the Australian media* jettisons any idea of objective reporting and lunges straight into outright advocacy. Read, listen to or watch …

Culture / Politics

February 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HEADLINES THAT ONLY MAKE SENSE IN 2018, FOR $100 – The story here. Questions the media never asked: Is TV Oversaturated with Trump-Hating Comics?

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The Big Collusion Nothingburger, or 10 takeaways from the Russian indictment

February 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

1.Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian organisations have been indicted as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. You can …

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February 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER GAMES, CONT. – The American media wins gold for fawning over a totalitarian nightmare (thanks to the wonderful T Becket Adams who trawled through the sewage to come up …

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February 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER OLYMPICS – CNN hearts She-Kim: Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics https://t.co/ian9ZiurVm pic.twitter.com/fBXuFEyXAj — CNN International (@cnni) February 10, 2018 If “diplomatic …

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Salon: “Why is the Bible so badly written?”

February 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Salon publishes and unpublishes: Why is the Bible so badly written? https://t.co/lOJ9MGxNUP pic.twitter.com/4FdDnPw9AL — Salon (@Salon) February 8, 2018 Thank you for your feedback. We heard you. Upon further review, …