The media has been replete with hypocrisy and outright absurdity over the course of this tumultuous year. As the year comes to a close, here’s a list of the five most cringeworthy media moments.
The Media
Major US Media Outlets Take ‘Private Dinners’, ‘Sponsored Trips’ From Chinese Communist Propaganda Front
A host of corporate media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC have participated in private dinners and sponsored trips with the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a Chinese Communist Party-funded group seeking to garner “favorable coverage” and “disseminate positive messages” regarding China, The National Pulse can reveal.
Why Is Media Stoking Disinformation Campaigns?
Americans need to insist that legacy media be held to account as a treacherous culprit in the mass deception campaigns attributed to politicians, shady public relations operatives, and foreign powers.
Disinformation media campaigns operated by the Russians and the Chinese may also have a domestic origin. It is not what one would think. They don’t come from sleeper cells. Instead, the American legacy media, by way of its greed and lack of accountability, is responsible for the deception.
NYT Slams Writer Not Calling Jill Biden ‘Dr.’ Here’s How They Referred To Dr. Ben Carson For Years.
In an opinion piece published on Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Epstein, former editor of The American Scholar, triggered a firestorm when he suggested that Jill Biden stop referring to herself as “Dr. Jill Biden” because she was not a medical doctor, having earned a doctorate in education.
On Saturday, The New York Times published a piece in response, titled, “An Opinion Writer Argued Jill Biden Should Drop the ‘Dr.’ (Few Were Swayed.)” The piece began, “Do people who go by Dr. need to carry stethoscopes?”
Upstart media outlet Newsmax BEATS FOX for the first time as conservative viewers punish top cable giant for turning against Trump
Newsmax TV, a cable outlet that was obscure until recent months, has overtaken Fox News in one time slot for the first time by attracting conservatives who were alienated by the industry leader’s perceived anti-Trump coverage.
Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Reports program had 229,000 viewers in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic on Monday, surpassing the 203,000 who watched The Story With Martha MacCallum on Fox, CNN reported, citing Nielsen ratings data. The figures don’t include Newsmax’s livestreaming audience on the internet, which is substantial.
How Will Cable News Survive Without Donald Trump to Kick Around?
With Donald Trump poised to leave the White House one way or another on January 20, cable news nets find themselves in an existential crisis. They have spent the last four years mercilessly bashing the president, accusing him of wild, outrageous, and crazy crimes, creating some of the most inventive conspiracy theories about a president in history. This has resulted in sky-high ratings, allowing them to charge top dollar for advertising.
Matt Drudge Logs Off
The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self. Why?
It was the kind of story that would once have had Matt Drudge deploying font sizes that newspapers used to reserve for declarations of war. On Oct. 14, Twitter and Facebook blocked users from spreading a New York Post article alleging that Hunter Biden had brokered meetings between his father, then the vice president of the United States, and executives at a Ukrainian energy firm where the younger Biden held an $80,000-a-month sinecure. The Post’s article included photos of what appeared to be an exhausted and intoxicated-looking Biden in various states of undress.