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Press called out for a week of retractions, bad reporting

As the nation headed in to the weekend, President Donald Trump criticized the media for its reporting on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, singling out the New York Times after the paper issued a major ...

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New York Times makes bombshell retraction, corrects Kavanaugh story

The nation’s leading newspaper has been forced to make a major retraction and correction after publishing a story that misled readers about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The New York Times’ article ...

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Vast majority of Americans ‘troubled’ by news media

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The news media has an image problem and it’s not just with the President of the United States. A newly released poll finds that almost all Americans are “troubled” by the state ...

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NOAA refutes false media reports about Trump and Hurricane Dorian

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The nation’s federal agency monitoring the earth’s weather continues to refute the media’s false reports surrounding President Trump and Hurricane Dorian. Reporters have been left embarrassed after a narrative they pushed about ...

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Hurricane Dorian has so far only deluged media with hype, not rain

The nation’s weather forecasters, possibly egged on by an overly excited media, may have gotten it wrong –  again.  Hurricane Dorian’s forecast track changed on Saturday, just hours after forecasters were 100% ...

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Media says G-7 a failure but facts tell different story

President Donald Trump has secured a major concession from leaders of the Group of Seven after they issued a declaration on Aug. 26 committing to fair trade.  It has been Trump’s central effort ...

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CNN hires Andrew McCabe amid conservative condemnation

CNN announced on Aug. 23 that fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has joined the network as a contributor, a decision that quickly drew backlash from critics. McCabe was fired by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions ...

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Photos show Rep. Tlaib lied about her Palestinian family’s poverty

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Contradicting claims by Rep. Rashida Tlaib about supposed Israeli oppression, poverty and racism, images from the community in which her grandmother and other family members live shows it full of luxury items. In fact, ...

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Study: mainstream news favors Democrats 7 to 1

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Mainstream news coverage does not reflect the political make-up of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Mainstream media is exceedingly likely to cover news through a partisan filter. So it’s no surprise ...

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Whistleblower says Google blacklisting conservative news

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A former Google software engineer has accused his former employer of political bias and blacklisting through its attempts to manipulate public opinion. The goal, says the whistleblower, is control of news and ...

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Netflix’s ‘The Family’ turns prayer group into sinister force for world domination

Heard about the Netflix documentary “The Family?”  As the streaming channel’s series go, it is just about as far-fetched as they come. A lot of supposedly smart people – Christians included – ...

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Twitter takes down Ohio shooter’s account after it shows he was Warren supporter

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Twitter has taken down the account of the gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio. The action came after the Associated Press showed tweets in which 24-year-old Connor Betts labeled himself ...

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Iraqi TV anchor reads eye-opening poem questioning Arab culture

Iraqi TV Host Mahdi Jassem Reads Text By Syrian Poet: For 1,400 Years We Have Been Cursing The Jews And Christians, But We Are The Ones Left Without Unity. In a July ...

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Contrary to media reports, California shooter may not have been a ‘supremacist’

Media reports on the motivation of the California festival shooter that also describe the suspect as a white supremacist are being contradicted by others who viewed his social media posts. The 19-year-old suspect, ...

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Google researcher: Make search index a public utility

A psychologist who has spent years researching Google’s massive influence has suggested a way for the tech giant to avoid potentially crippling government intervention. The solution, a significant sacrifice for Google, would be ...

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Facebook restores post quoting theologian Augustine

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Facebook has backed down from saying a quote from a 5th century theologian was hate speech. A blogger reported on July 14 that Facebook had repeatedly banned a quote from St. Augustine ...

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Platforms vs. Publishers: The Big Tech War on the First Amendment

Media platforms and publishers are a big part of our lives, and they can have a huge influence on our culture. Recently YouTube pulled the plug on, or demonetized, many YouTube channels. ...

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Facebook to let leftist organizations run ‘fairness’ effort

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg announced the company’s latest efforts to institutionalize the demands of 90 liberal organizations into the company’s “fairness” operations, including disturbing efforts geared toward the 2020 elections. Leaders whose organizations ...

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Hawley to YouTube: stop catering to pedophiles

YouTube refuses to stop automatically recommending footage of kids to pedophiles. U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, says the video-hosting website YouTube must stop the practice. Dallas-based AT&T Corp. and several other major companies ...

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Is Facebook’s ‘civil rights’ audit harming free speech?

Facebook, perhaps the world’s most powerful media platform, has released the results of its “civil rights” audit which it insists fights hate speech. The company said it is rolling out the updated ...

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New White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham roughed up by North Korean security guards

As Donald Trump made history Sunday by becoming the first sitting US president to set foot on North Korean soil, new White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was reportedly injured in a confrontation ...

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Google inserting political agenda to impact election

Google is surreptitiously pushing its political agenda onto its users through its products in an effort that one employee described as “preventing the next Trump situation.” The company has cloaked its political agenda ...

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Stephanopoulos called-out for bias by President Trump in interview

President Donald Trump said that ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos and New York Times political reporter Maggie Haberman laughed when they were told Trump would win the presidency. Both are known ...

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CNN sues to get release of full Mueller report

CNN is resorting to legal action to obtain documents used in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The cable news channel has seen a ...

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Bette Midler caught spreading fake Trump quotes

Bette Midler is being called out for making up quotes and attributing them to President Trump. Midler was particularly criticized on Twitter after posting the fake quote alleging Donald Trump made the ...

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