Category: Media Matters
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Trump has Made News Great Again
Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye: The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life. Mercifully brief, and very interesting. In Foreign Affairs, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments. Elon Musk…
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Finally! An End to Taxpaper Subsidization of NPR and PBS
We conservatives have been talking about this for years, but it's all been talk. Until now. A re-post from 10 December 2014: National Public Radio and the Tit of the State "If the product is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the State?" (Charles Krauthammer) One answer is that…
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National Public Radio
Two irrefutable Substack arguments for defunding these purveyors of destructive leftist claptrap.
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Journalism is Dead!
When Bill O'Reilly said as much years ago I thought he was exaggerating. It is certainly no exaggeration now, if it is lamestream, 'woke'-captured, Democrat shill outlets such as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Washington Post (WaPo) we are talking about. Here: But we can thank Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at NPR,…
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Legutko on Entertainment
Legutko tends to exaggerate, as witness the final sentence in the following quotation, but the point he is making is true and important. In today’s world entertainment is not just a pastime or a style, but a substance that permeates everything: schools and universities, upbringing of children, intellectual life, art, morality, and religion. It has…
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Two-Tiered System of Justice?
I know what conservatives such as Sean Hannity mean when they employ the above expression, but the expression is inept. There cannot be two tiers of justice, one for the rulers and the other for the ruled, or one for Democrats and the other for Republicans, for the simple reason that justice in Anglo-American law…
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Of Fox and Fellatio: A Fox News First?
This is the first time I have heard fellatio referred to on a major TV network. The sweet and wholesome Kayleigh McEnany reports. The fellatio reference is around 2:34. Joey B, "devout Catholic" in journo lingo, stars as Porn Enforcer and takes a brave stand against book burning. UPDATE (6/23) Do you remember when our…
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PayPal, Social Media, and the Control of Information
The PayPal Fiasco was no Accident PayPal on Oct. 8 sent out an update to its terms of use, or acceptable use policy (AUP), that included a shocking addition. It reserved the right to confiscate $2,500 from people’s accounts if they spread “misinformation.” It was a clear announcement of what many already suspected: PayPal has enlisted…
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Twitter and the War of the Oligarchs
Geoff Shullenberger at Compact: Those fretting about the world’s wealthiest man gaining control over their favorite site have scarcely objected to the fact that the media outlets, think tanks, NGOs, and universities they work for comprise a patronage network bankrolled by a handful of other billionaires like eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Musk has…
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Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021) and the Depth of Disagreement
As a philosopher, I am more interested in the nature of disagreement than in the particular things we disagree about. Why should our disagreements be so bitter and protracted? But the particular bones of contention are fascinating too. At the moment, there is wild disagreement over the assessment of Rush Limbaugh's remarkably influential career. Here's…
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Cancel the New York Times!
Richard Samuelson, Claremont Review of Books
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Out-Foxing the Feculent Purveyors of Race Madness and Leftist Lunacy
Fox News is destroying the opposition. Hats off to Tucker Carlson for his hard-hitting commentary and civil courage in the teeth of vicious opposition from Democrat-leftist scum. And note the demographic in which Carlson dominates. This is a good sign indeed. True, the elderly, who tend to list in a conservative direction, are dying off. …
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‘Journalists’ of the Garbage Cult Media
Here: These people are all part of a garbage cult, a garbage cult where not a single one of them has the moral courage to come out and tell the truth… And here is the truth… On Friday, after Trump expressed his own personal optimism and sense of hope about chloroquine, a malaria drug that…
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The Media Have Damaged the Country Irreparably
David Harsanyi: For the past two years, a large swath of the media engaged in a mass act of self-deception and partisan groupthink. Perhaps it was Watergate envy, or bitterness over Donald Trump’s victory, or antagonism towards Republicans in general—or, most likely, a little bit of all the above. But now that Special Counsel Robert…
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Is President Trump Mounting an Assault on the Fourth Estate?
Obviously not. He is merely punching back at the contemptible pseudo-journalists, feculent with crypto-commie bias, who head up the lamestream media outlets. When leftists accuse us of something you can be sure that they are doing that very thing. Call it political projection. The greatest threats to free speech at the present time emanate from…