Andrew Trunsky on April 28, 2021 Hunter Biden will be a guest lecturer at Tulane University for a course titled “Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts” that focuses, in part, on “fake news.” The son of President Joe Biden is one of nine guest speakers for the class, which focuses on “the current state of…
Mary Rose Corkery on January 21, 2021 Will Wilkinson, vice president for research at the Niskanen Center and a New York Times contributing opinion writer said Thursday that President Joe Biden would lynch former Vice President Mike Pence if he desires unity. “‘Aha! Biden proposes policies I dislike. HIS CALL FOR UNITY IS A LIE!!!’…
Cenk Uygur, creator of the progressive media network The Young Turks, fired shots at political talk show host Dave Rubin on Twitter, Wednesday, questioning the success of Rubin’s new book, which is on the New York Times’ Best Seller list. “According to @nytimes best-seller list, some organization is doing bulk buys of @RubinReport’s book. Media…
Jason Hopkins – The New York Times editorial board interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, discussing a range of issue before the board decides who it will endorse in the 2020 Democratic primary. – The board entered a back-and-forth with Sanders on the topic of illegal immigration, with members pointing out that he once said…
Chuck Ross The co-authors of a new book about Brett Kavanaugh blamed New York Times editors on Monday for removing a key passage from an essay they published over the weekend that laid out a new, but uncorroborated, sexual misconduct allegation against the Supreme Court justice. In an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Times reporters Robin…
Peter Hasson The Washington Post passed on a thinly sourced, unproven allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before the New York Times published it in a misleading article in Sunday’s paper that has since been corrected. Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly left out exculpatory evidence in an article that claimed Kavanaugh had…
Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns. Beginning around 2010-2014 there appears to have been an inflection point. Here from Zach Goldberg on Twitter are various words drawn from Lexis-Nexis. And here from David Rizardo is a longer…
Chris White on January 21, 2019 Twitter said Monday that former CNN contributor Reza Aslan did not violate the platform’s policies when he posted a tweet Saturday suggesting one of the boys involved in a dust-up during the March for Life rally had a “punchable face.” “We have investigated the reported content and could not identify…
Chris White Facebook executives are angry at The New York Times for what they believe is unfair reporting about the company, NBC reported Friday, according to sources. The news comes as the paper is getting dinged for posting advertisements on Facebook telling users how to delete the platform. The NYT ads give Facebook users a…
Kyle Perisic on August 10, 2018 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said a “starting consideration” for the company’s potential new values could be based off the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights Whether Dorsey knew it or not, several key rights found in the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights advocate for free speech and freedom of…