June 26, 2020 Culture Watch, Media Watch, News
A recent Pew poll found that almost sixty percent of Americans believe news organizations “don’t understand people like them” and eighty percent believe the media are biased. “Overall, 59 percent of Americans ...
Read More » October 10, 2019 Columns, Media Watch, News, Politics & Policy
Is Fox News playing with the poll numbers regarding impeachment? A look at the methodology and the samples lends considerable weight to that allegation. The news network released a major story Wednesday ...
Read More » September 30, 2019 Media Watch, News
A Virginia sixth grader who claimed three of her white male classmates held her down and cut off her dreadlocks is now saying she made up the entire story. But the revelation may ...
Read More » September 12, 2019 Media Watch, News
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 ...
Read More » August 9, 2019 Columns, News
Amnesty International has issued a “travel advisory” for would-be visitors to the United States, claiming that “rampant gun violence” has “become so prevalent in the United States that it amounts to a human rights ...
Read More » July 8, 2019 Culture Watch, News
Starbucks has issued a public apology following an incident in which a group of police officers was asked to leave after a customer allegedly complained about feeling “unsafe.” Six officers from the ...
Read More » June 17, 2019 Media Watch, News
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 ...
Read More » June 2, 2019 National, News
A transcript in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report was selectively edited to artificially buttress the narrative that President Donald Trump was obstructing the special counsel investigation. The Mueller report quotes a transcript of a Nov. 22, ...
Read More » March 25, 2019 Columns
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the progress made in elevating women and decreasing gender inequalities. But even with many positive strides made, the fight against sex discrimination still suffers from the ...
Read More » January 16, 2019 National, News, Politics & Policy
Coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency on the three major TV networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—was overwhelmingly negative in 2018, just as it was a year earlier, according to a study conducted by the Media ...
Read More » December 30, 2018 National, News
A House oversight committee recommended on Dec. 28 that a special counsel be appointed to probe how the two federal agencies were biased against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and election. ...
Read More » September 2, 2018 National, Tech & Science
Google is coming under new Congressional pressure over claims of bias in its search Engine. U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Aug. 30 asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine the ...
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