Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
Two billionaireTexas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits...
Category: Media
Former Twitter VP urges companies pull advertising from platform — citing Elon Musk’s ‘toxic takeover’
Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Media Katie Jacobs Stanton is urging advertisers to pull their money from the microblogging...
How the media covers up for the Pentagon’s highway robbery
Intense debate over the Build Back Better (BBB) legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The...
Big Oil runs disinformation ads about climate change on Twitter
If Donald Trump’s presidency was good for one thing, it was waking Americans up to the threat of disinformation. We...
Fascist Rupert Murdoch Gets COVID-19 Shot While Profiting Off Vaccine Misinformation
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
James Murdoch says his family media empire at Fox News legitimizes disinformation
James Murdoch, the former CEO of 21st Century Fox and the youngest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, has admitted that he...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Fox News Clan Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Its Coronavirus Lies
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories...
Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely...
The Corporate Media Owes Al Gore an Apology
I remember when Gore stood before Congress and gaveled in the proceedings that certified his election loss. He was repeatedly...
Sanders Calls Out CNN for Airing Pharma Commercials During 2020 Debate
It was “like clockwork.” In the middle of a heated back-and-forth on Medicare for All at the beginning of Tuesday...
Corporate Media Enable Industry War Against Medicare for All
Opponents of Medicare for All have a difficult task ahead of it heading into the 2020 election: They must convince...
Right-Wing Fox News Lets Trump’s EPA Head Choose His Own Questions In Interview
The combination of Fox & Friends and corrupt former Environmental Protection Administration head Scott Pruitt wouldn’t lead you to expect anything good,...
Alt-Right Fox News Focuses On Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes More Than Climate Report
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday criticized Fox News for not dedicating enough time to the gloomy new climate change report the Trump...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Give Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller’ Cash to Spew Right Wing Propaganda
Tucker Carlson, FOX News’ new prime-time anchor, received a six-figure sum from the Donald Trump campaign for president through his...
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t.
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our...
Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All’ Online Town Hall Draws Over 1 Million Live Viewers
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live...
Fox News Spent $50 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suits In The Last Year
According to the latest round of financial filings, Fox News has had to pay out $50 million in the last...
The Fox News Channel: The Epitome of Fake News
Former Fox News contributor Tobin Smith is exposing Fox News as a scam that is designed to manipulate and fool...
Federal Employees Are Being Forced To Watch Fox (Fake) News, Leaked Memo Says
According to a leaked memo from the Trump administration, employees in the White House and throughout government agencies are being...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
Nate Silver Reveals How The Corporate Media Cost Hillary Clinton The Election
The media doesn’t talk about how Hillary Clinton really lost, because it implicates their judgment. Nate Silver pointed out that...
Fox News: A Haven for Sexual Predators
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): I want to ask you about something the president said today on the record in the Oval Ooffice about Bill O’Reilly,...
Fox Pays Gretchen Carlson $20 Million as Restitution for the Sins of Sexual Predator Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News
It has been exactly two months since Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, sued her old boss, Roger Ailes,...
Talking Heads At Fox Feel The Pain Of CEO’s Who Are Required To Pay Employees A Living Wage
STUART VARNEY (HOST): How about this one? It is July the 1st, minimum wage increases go into effect today in...
Editorial Propagandists at Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Shill for Exxon
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has tried every trick in the book to wrongly defend ExxonMobil against allegations that...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Corporate Media For Blocking His Message
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on...
CBS Analyst Frank Luntz Received $1.5 Million From The Koch Brothers to Spew Right-Wing Koch Propaganda
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
Murdoch’s propaganda organ the Wall Street Journal attacks Bernie Sanders
I’ve had so many calls about an article appearing earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal – charging that...
Obama Rips Fox News For Spreading Class Warfare Propaganda
While speaking at Georgetown University, the President called out Fox News by name: “But part of it has also been...
Corporate Media Ignores Scott Walker’s Dark Money Controversy
The press has almost entirely ignored the revelation that after the “richest man in Wisconsin” made secret donations benefiting Republican...
Bernie Sanders: The Real News Story They Won’t Discuss Is, Why Are People Working Longer Hours For Less Pay?
From the transcript at Moyers & Co., where Bernie Sanders makes his usual incisive points: BILL MOYERS: Well, that’s interesting....
Hannity Calls Nun A “Communist” For Acknowledging Paul Ryan’s Budget Hurts The Poor
From Fox News’ Hannity special, “The Power of Faith”.
