Washington’s Blog | 6 Dec 2017 Those who want to impeach Trump say his contacts (through Flynn and others) with high-level Russians, such as Russian Ambassador Kislyak, was treason … or at the very least an impeachable offense. Others – without any proof – say that the president-elect’s team contacting foreign leaders is normal. Who’s…
Zero Hedge | 7 June Back on May 9th, the White House released the letter that President Trump sent to former FBI Director James Comey informing him that he’d been relieved of his duties at the FBI. Within that letter, Trump awkwardly inserted a sentence thanking Comey for informing him “on three separate occasions, that…
Steve Watson | May 25, 2017 A Harvard University study has confirmed that a majority of Americans across the political spectrum believe that the mainstream media publishes ‘fake news’. The survey found that a whopping 65 percent of voters do not trust the media, and concur with President Trump that the likes of CNN and the…
Politico | May/June 2017 How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell? News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign. The overwhelming assumption was that the race was Hillary Clinton’s…
Digital Vision | 19 April 2017 The latest SimilarWeb US Media Publications ranking is here! While the Trump Administration continues to drive traffic to media publications in the US, this month saw several other news items driving audience interests – most notably March Madness, but also anticipated tech releases, and global news items. Notable Increases in…
The New York Times Magazine | 4 April 2017 Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington, CNN’s largest control room was mostly empty but for a handful of producers hunched over control panels and, hovering behind them, a short, barrel-shaped,…
The Hollywood Reporter | 5 Jan 2017 “We made a mistake on our cover this morning and we’re very embarrassed.” The Washington Post Express, a free daily tabloid given to mass transit passengers in D.C., drew ire on Thursday with its cover about the Women’s March on Washington that mistakenly featured the male gender symbol. Not long…
Washington Free Beacon | November 28, 2016 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklGnu5NoE0&w=640&h=360] Days after Donald Trump was elected to the White House, CNN launched a crusade against “fake news.” CNN has joined the New York Times in labeling fake news as a threat to the country. Washington Free Beacon reporter Bill McMorris wrote about how the Times exposed its readers to numerous fake news stories before the election.…
The Intercept | 27 Nov 2016 THE WASHINGTON POST on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.” The article by reporter Craig Timberg — headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts…
Zero Hedge November 25, 2016 The desperate flailing of a mainstream-media struggling through the five stages of grief continues as no lesser unbiased foundation of the fourth estate than The Washington Post pushes ahead with its “fake news, blame the Russians” narrative for why their candidate failed so miserably. Citing “two teams of independent researchers” (who surely…