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I'm old enough to remember the hubbub over JournoList, a listserv of leftist reporters from different news outlets who convened regularly in a chatroom to strategize how to spin stories and set narratives, such as how to torpedo Gov.Sarah Palin to get Barack Obama elected president. From 2007 to 2010, JournoList was its own echo chamber, as Politico put it at the time. Now the same thing's happening again, with TV lawyers acting as rhetorical wetwork teams covering the trials of their political nemesis, Donald Trump. JournoList was started by Ezra Klein, who now works for the New York Times,...

The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government is currently hosting a hearing on freedom of the press and protecting journalists, as the Biden Regime attempts to infringe on the rights of the press and shape news stories to fit their narrative. Rep Chip Roy opened the hearing at 9:30 am ET, remarking, “Today’s hearing is about defending our fundamental liberty and protecting journalists and their sources from these attacks. We will examine the federal government’s infringement on the freedom of the press and examine the prospects for federal shield law.” Witnesses include investigative journalists Catherine Herridge...

Normally they're the ones grilling Washington power players. But the tables have been turned on the White House press corps.

Blaze Media Investigative Journalist @TPC4USA has now been taken into FBI custody for his J6 reporting. PERP WALKED IN FRONT OF CAMERAS LIKE IN A BANANA REPUBLIC................ VIDEO AT LINK.......................

Outrageous BREAKING: DOJ asks Steve Baker (@TPC4USA) to turn himself in next week to face misdemeanor charges for covering J6 as an independent journalist Baker responds: Game on. Baker should be able to make a good showing of a selective and vindictive prosecution. Steve has been covering the J6 riots and subsequent federal coverup in meticulous detail.

Earlier this week, reports emerged that digital news outlet The Messenger would shut down entirely.. More than 500 journalists lost their jobs in January as multiple outlets shed staff in the face of adverse industry conditions. A report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas highlighted the 528 layoffs across digital, print, and broadcast news media in January. The figure marked a substantial uptick from the 30 layoffs the firm identified the prior month and the highest total since last March's 532. The news industry lost more than 3,087 positions last year, an increase from 1,808 in 2022 and 1,511 in 2021....

We feel strongly that public discussion and civil debate are crucial to our society. We know that you, our readers, know things that we don’t. You come from different backgrounds and have different experiences. We’re all better when we can hear one another and learn from different perspectives. That’s why the USA TODAY Network invested in extensive research and testing with the Center for Media Engagement before deciding to enable comments on our news sites in 2020. But for all their benefits, we also know that comment sections across the internet can quickly devolve when they’re left unmonitored. We wanted...

ROME — Pope Francis warned of the dangers of “Big Data” Wednesday, noting “algorithms are not neutral” and can be used to spread fake news and create groupthink. Artificial intelligence systems can “be a source of ‘cognitive pollution,’ a distortion of reality by partially or completely false narratives, believed and broadcast as if they were true,” the pontiff argues in his 2024 Message for the World Day of Social Communications. The digital revolution can imprison people “in models that nowadays are called ‘echo chambers,’” the pope states, and rather than increasing a “pluralism of information,” they create confusion.

When we think about Trump Derangement Syndrome, what likely first comes to our minds are the totally mental antics of the Trump-obsessed left: we see the ugly liberal fatties screaming in the street while wearing vagina hats; we might think of Rob Reiner, the Hollywood has-been who seems to hourly post on X about how “fascist” Trump is “literally” Hitler; or we uncomfortably remember (while trying to forget) the time that E. Jean Carroll told Anderson Cooper that “some” people think “rape is sexy” in the wake of accusing President Trump (a man behind the show of which she was...

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump will “take all the journalists” and “gay folks” to “disappear” them. Goldberg said, “Beware the media. That voting block has lots of issues they want to address. They do, and they have every right to demand that from whoever the candidate is going to be. But I will say this until it’s time to go vote, beware the media telling us what we’re doing. Only you know what you’re doing. You know what’s upsetting you, and you will discuss it when you go and make...

SNIP The DC Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments on Tuesday, January 9, on the issue of presidential immunity after Judge Tanya Chutkan denied two motions to dismiss based on First Amendment and presidential immunity claims. The appeal will be heard by a three-judge panel consisting of Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in January 2022 and confirmed in July 2022; Judge Florence Pan, nominated by Biden in May 2022 and confirmed in September 2022; and Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, who was appointed by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990. On...

A hot mic caught journalists joking about former President Donald Trump being assassinated as they waited for him to arrive at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, according to a report. According to Mediaite, cameras were set up waiting for Trump’s arrival and caught the journalists joking about getting a good video shot of Trump but then referencing late President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. According to the outlet, the journalists said: JOURNO 1: You know what the worst part is? Even if he has his window open and he’s hanging out of it, he will be on the...

A new study has found that only 3.4 percent of American journalists are Republicans. Did they really need to do a study to learn this? Also, doesn’t that number seem a little high? This just confirms what everyone already knew anyway. This is why journalists at political debates often sound like they’re debating the Republican candidate – because they are. They see Republicans as opponents, not just political candidates. It also explains why almost all of them suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. A new study from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications found that just 3.4% of American journalists...

In a recent budget announcement, Freiland Bitch revealed a comprehensive set of measures signaling significant financial support for Canadian journalists. The Trudeau government is set to cover a substantial 55% of journalists’ salaries, albeit with a notable twist—this aid is exclusively directed towards newspapers and news organizations deemed “reliable.” Under the newly amended Bill C-18, the government has responded to News Media Canada’s calls for increased support by enhancing the Labour Journalism Tax Credit. Formerly covering 25% of journalist costs up to $55,000 per employee ($13,750), the fall economic statement outlines a more generous system. Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations, encompassing...

Gazan journalist participated in Hamas massacre, ecstatically displayed soldier’s ID card, helmet and magazine Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Nov 9, 2023 ... Gazan journalist and actor Ali Nasman ecstatically celebrating the abduction or killing... This journalist who participated in the terror attack was subsequently killed by the Israel army in an airstrike. Other journalists also reported live from the invasion and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has demanded clarifications from the bureau chiefs of the media organizations that employed them, among them AP, Reuters, CNN and The New York Times. [Israeli GPO, Nov. 9, 2023] Hamas war on Israel October...

It's so strange … people are in the streets celebrating a terrorist group that invaded Israel on the Sabbath and slaughtered 1,400 civilians, but they take great umbrage at the suggestion that these terrorists raped or beheaded anyone. Sure, they accept that they shot them and stabbed them and maybe even that they set them on fire, but beheading? C'mon. That's just IDF propaganda to make Hamas look like barbarians. And you notice no one denies that more than a thousand Israeli civilians were killed in a surprise attack … rather, it was "exhilarating" to hear. Some L.A. Times journalists...

The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable quarters. Progressive commentators portray this and similar laws passed by more than a dozen Republican — controlled state legislatures as “anti-LGBTQIA+.” In truth, the laws are aimed not at that whole bramble of capital letters, but solely at the “T.” Slamming these bans histrionically as “genocide” (four in 15,000 patients of the Tavistock Clinic or on its waiting list committed suicide between 2010 and 2020, but according to propaganda it’s up to 50 percent of trans kids who try to...

An ABC News reporter who bragged about ‘debunking’ evidence of an elite pedophile ring had pleaded guilty to a sickening array of child sex crimes, according to reports. James Gordon Meek, 53, who served as a national security journalist at ABC, is scheduled to appear in a Virginia federal court on Friday following his January 2023 indictment on child rape charges. He faces up to 20 years behind bars. The disturbing crimes were exposed after the FBI conducted a raid on the journalist’s Arlington home in April 2022. FBI officials were alerted by Dropbox in March 2021 of ‘sickening child...

The White House released new requirements Friday outlining which journalists are allowed in the briefing room and presidential events, and warning about unprofessional behavior. The new rules require journalists to submit a letter to gain access to the White House grounds with information about their employment, mandating that reporters work for “an organization whose principal business is news dissemination.” The rule change comes as the administration has been facing repeated outbursts in the briefing room from reporters like Simon Ateba, and comes days after World Press Freedom Day. Journalists have called out White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for not...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "unbelievable" that data revealed earlier this year show the number of journalists killed in 2022 was 50% higher than during the previous year. UNESCO's data record the deaths of 86 journalists during 2022, "amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021." But it's also the nature of that threat worrying officials at UNESCO. "When we started this monitoring many years ago, the main cause of journalists killings in the world was journalists covering conflicts, and now this is the minority of the killings," Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, who...