Tag Archives: Mainstream Media

disinformation as misinformation and malinformation also involves framing

Posted on August 12, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Excellent Mother Jones article on disinformation that offers an opportunity to remind us that the interpretive tools are there, but they get misused or disused. Disinformation is false information that is deliberately created with the intent to … Continue reading →

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“look at that view, wouldn’t that make a great condo?” Trump sells a North Korean time share

Posted on June 12, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump in his continuing nouveau vulgarianism pulled a real estate sales stunt at the Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, showing an iPad video that crudely references the classic DPRK propaganda film series Nation and Destiny Singapore … Continue reading →

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#TrumpRussia … President Outliar … Watergate wasn’t performed by the KGB

Posted on June 24, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers There is so much there, there … so much still not known, but what is known are money-laundering, data-laundering, and more recently verification of intention to disrupt the 2016 election with a preference for Trump. And then … Continue reading →

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Prezident Kozyr’s diplomacy as reality-TV genre

Posted on January 18, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann sunmers   Reality-TV rather than Realism … Nikolai Volkoff is known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and also with Boris Zukhov as The … Continue reading →

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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

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Full Disclosure: The George Will Scott Walker Connections

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Political pundit, Washington Post conservative columnist,  Fox News contributor, and climate change denier George Will has often been heard expounding on matters of great national import and opining about political figures on the Sunday morning nooz programs. At the end of … Continue reading →

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“The Face of Disgrace”: Charlie Pierce’s Brief Look at Three Failures of the Mainstream Media Since 2001 (VIDEO)

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Today, Charlie Pierce has a post on his Politics Blog at Esquire titled The Face of Disgrace. The post is short—but points out the mainstream media’s failure to cover a few important events that occurred in this … Continue reading →

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“It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again”: The News Media and Political Pundits Appear to Be Fear Mongering and Beating the Drums of War Once More (VIDEO)

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By ELAINE MAGLIARO Last Sunday, Brian Stetler of CNN said he was concerned “about whether or not the media is stoking a war panic over the Islamic State militant group.” Stelter wondered whether members of the media were “letting their … Continue reading →

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Smear Merchants and Bias in News Reporting: Regarding Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, Race, Right-Wing Blogs, and the Mainstream Media

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By ELAINE MAGLIARO Bias in the Mainstream News Media? On August 14th—five days after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—Nick Wing published an article on Huffington Post titled When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than … Continue reading →

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“Right-Wing Hack” Laura Ingraham Hired by Major Network’s News Division

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

BY ELAINE MAGLIARO Guess which major network’s news division just hired “right-wing hack” Laura Ingraham as a news contributor? ABC! George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s This Week, made the announcement last Sunday. Politico reported on Monday that Ingraham will continue … Continue reading →

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