“Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list. But as the Democrats prepare for the midterm election cycle, anti-wokeness has become a key theme about the party’s future. Woke activists have been chief culprits in Terry McAuliffe’s loss in the Virginia governor’s race, correspondents tell us, and the electoral ground loss generally by the Democrats (The Hill, 11/7/21). The meaning of this ubiquitous term often shifts with context. Originating in Black vernacular English, according to Merriam-Webster, to “stay woke” means to question […]
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Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo By Danny Sjursen, ScheerPost.com. September 28, 2020 Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role In Status Quo2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/nythl_0-1-e1601303702406.jpg200px200px Above photo: Misleading article in the New York Times. The military says they can’t find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections. It is an old journalistic trope: no one reads the correction … or the retraction. No matter how serious the error or profound the implications of the misreporting. Like, let’s say the entire range of mainstream media took the word […]
Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump want to pare back longstanding legal protections for Internet platforms. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump want to pare back longstanding legal protections for Internet platforms. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Justice Department has asked Congress to pass legislation holding online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter more accountable for what their users post, in the Trump administration’s latest salvo against social media companies. The proposed changes would reshape Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act […]
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau mocked the far left mainstream media and their junk narrative that Kamala Harris is some sort of “moderate.” Advertisement – story continues below ** According to Government Track California Senator Kamala Harris is further left than Socialist Bernie Sanders. The Trump Campaign re-tweeted this rare moment of honesty by Favreau. TRENDING: MUST SEE: The Gateway Pundit’s Alicia Powe Asks President Trump a Meaningful Question at Friday’s Presser — President Responds in Classic Trump Style (Video) Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau mocks the media’s narrative that Kamala Harris is a “moderate” “She has one of the […]
Convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t have many public allies these days. But one person has emerged as the media’s favorite defender of hers: an ex-convict and former part-time blogger who some critics say is full of it. Voracious consumers of tabloid news are well aware of Laura Goldman by now. Over the past few months, she’s accumulated an impressive amount of citations across global media as a “friend of Ghislaine Maxwell,” starting long before Epstein’s former girlfriend was arrested last week in New Hampshire. But after Maxwell was taken into custody, Goldman’s media presence ratcheted up […]
Employees at Maven Media Brands, the U.S. digital-media publisher that owns outlets like Sports Illustrated and Maxim, are calling upon the company to cut ties with a Blue Lives Matter website in its portfolio. In an all-staff meeting on Friday, Maven announced that it will institute a 15-percent salary reduction across the organization as part of cost-saving measures as a result of the collapse of the digital advertising market following the spread of the coronavirus. While staffers were upset about the latest round of cuts, many raised another concern: The company’s continued affiliation with Defense Maven, a website also known as […]
The liberal media’s coverage of the riots has been as awful as anyone would expect. They are defending rioters while falsely blaming Trump and trying to politicize the crimes and destruction whenever possible. Greg Gutfeld of FOX News tore into the media on Tuesday during ‘The Five.’ Here’s a partial transcript via FOX News: TRENDING: UPDATE: Looters Murder Retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn at City Pawnshop – Film it on Facebook Live – Then Loot the Store (VIDEO) Gutfeld on the media’s role in the riots There was another night of looting Monday. But what’s the media’s priority? Criticizing […]
Bernie Blackout, a new VICE TV documentary directed by Pat McGee examining the mainstream media’s alleged bias against the Sanders campaign, is rooted in independent and alternative journalism instead of the corporate cable news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. While McGee’s film straightforwardly breaks down the cynical function of corporate media (that is, to turn a profit, not to tell the truth), the documentary unfortunately does not reach beyond the 24-hour news cycle and into the centuries of knowledge produced around spin, propaganda, and political manipulation that came before today’s U.S.-based podcasters, vloggers, and other digital writers (including me) […]