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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud
Read more...Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is "fake news" for Republicans, and much of what appears in Republicans ...
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Can Journalists Be Activists? | Jan-Werner Mueller
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News icons created by Freepik - FlaticonAt a time when autocrats are consolidating power by attacking “the media,” old debates about journalism’s role in a democracy and how journalists should conduct themselves need to be revisited. Advocacy is no less legitimate and valuable than reporting, as long as it is based on a commitment to truth. Jan-Werner Mueller -- Project Syndicate April 3, 2023 Pr ...
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ALL News is Fake News — Mickey Z.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 27, 2021 On July 20, 2021, the Milwaukee Bucks won the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship. Their MVP was Giannis Antetokounmpo, a.k.a. “The Greek Freak.” His performance in the deciding game was stellar and this sent the sports media world in a predictable series of paroxysms. Antetokounmpo was virtually inducted into the Hal ...
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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.
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(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the ensuing articles and posts about myself. After all, who better than Mickey Z. to fact-check something written about Mickey Z.? Whenever I ponder these memories, I can’t help but see them through the le ...
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Limbaugh, Obama, and the “Monsters” We Choose to See — Mickey Z.
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(AP photos) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 23, 2021 “They say that what you mock/Will surely overtake you And you become a monster/So the monster will not break you” (“Peace on Earth,” U2) NOTE: Since we live in a world of black-and-white thinking and confirmation bias, I feel compelled to preemptively explain that I am not pro-Rush Limbaugh. Not even close. In fact, I’d say I stood diamet ...
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War of the Worlds: The Original Fake News October Surprise — Mickey Z.
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Still image from the 2005 version of War of the Worlds (credit unknown) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 29, 2020 26 percent of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. *** October 30 will mark 82 years since a 23-year-old Orson Welles helped set off a nationwide panic over a fictional Martian invasion in 1938. His regular Sunday evening radio show began with this unambiguous ann ...
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Helen Thomas, Barrier-Busting White House Reporter, Is Dead at 92 | David Stout
Read more...July 20, 2013 -- WASHINGTON (New York Times) -- Helen Thomas, whose keen curiosity, unquenchable drive and celebrated constancy made her a trailblazing White House correspondent in a press corps dominated by men and later the doyenne of the White House briefing room, died Saturday at her apartment in Washington. She was 92. Her death was announced by the Gridiron Club where Ms. Thomas had been a ...
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America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media | Paul Craig Roberts
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June 2, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The U.S. print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores. It seem ...
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Limbaugh’s New Racism | Joel S. Hirschhorn
Read more...Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Feb. 24, 2013 For some years, several times a week while driving to go shopping and do errands, I have listened to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Pretty much all the time I have become angered because every few sentences I realized that with his total sincerity and conviction he was stating absolutely incorrect things. Add to endless wrong information complete ...
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The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.
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Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" While the post-hurricane environment throughout the N.Y./N.J. area once again debunked the myth of “disaster = chaos,” it also created a window of opportunity for the 99% to re-imagine some aspec ...
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Greater Fools | Hal Cohen
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Hal Cohen -- World News Trust Sept. 13, 2012 In the final episode of the first season of “Newsroom,“ the character “Sloan,” played by Olivia Munn mentions the term “Greater Fool” as coming from economics. She states that someone who purchased something for more than its current perceived value was hoping to find a “Greater Fool” to sell it to for even more. The “Greater Fool” would buy it thinkin ...
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