For weeks, Facebook has been questioned about its role in spreading fake news. Now the company has mounted its most concerted effort to combat the problem. Facebook said on Thursday that it had begun a series of experiments to limit misinformation on its site. The tests include making it easier for its 1.8 billion members […]
Category: Media Bias
The Fake News Scare Is, Itself, Fake News
Don’t worry about fake news. The whole scare is, itself, fake news. Don’t believe a word of it. Could it be that the news media is still trying to distract us from their own poor performance? After all, if inaccuracy makes a thing “fake,” then all the pundits’ and pollsters’ pre-election day predictions were pretty […]
“Talking Down Our Democracy” – Hillary and media silent on Electoral College petition
Following her declaration that Trump was “Talking Down Our Democracy” – Hillary’s silence is a failure to fulfill her commitment given on national television. Then candidate Donald Trump’s noncommittal response to accepting the results of the election drew sharp criticism from both the media and Hillary Clinton. In fact, the New York Times’ opening paragraph […]
Media Guilty of Bias for Profits
While the election is over the media bias on issues and ideology will continue–even increase. The media is a company that exists on profits and the more division among America’s the more profits! Not only is the media guilty of bias for profit, just as any other biased group it uses code words to create […]
How To Sell A Lie: Lessons from liberal and conservative media
Note: This is not a PR piece for Trump. Rather the media’s coverage between Trump and Hillary makes the most telling example of media bias and how they successfully sell a lie. We’ve all heard the joke: “How can you tell if Hillary is lying? Her mouth is moving.” The truth of the matter is […]
Don’t These Black Lives Matter?
As expected, the police and whites are being blamed for this summer’s urban unrest – with black lives matter protests turning into riots – including the recent police shootings in Dallas. The accusation is that white cops are doing nothing but running around hunting and shooting upstanding, law-abiding, unarmed black men. Never mind the actual […]