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Actress Angela Lansbury is interviewed Sunday as members of the press gather around at the 9th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Truthdig contributors John Patterson and Tim Riley took top prizes at Sunday evening's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, the ninth annual event sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club.
THE TOP 16 JUNK SCIENCE STORIES OF 2016 Dec. 5, 2016 Source: American Council on Science and Health Junk science is everywhere. Just today, it was reported that President-Elect Donald Trump had a meeting with the anti-vaccine fraud Andrew Wakefield, who claimed that Mr Trump is "open-minded" about the issue.
On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. VELES, Macedonia - On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth.
Well, here we go again. Hillary who conceded the election victory to Donald J. Trump, following the state results, now wants a recount in the state of Wisconsin and, possibly, other states.
On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. "The fake news is the good news," the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist.
In the message, Google began with a straightforward, disconcerting warning: "Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password." This message has been delivered into the inbox of prominent reporters and high-profile individuals in the United States including Politico's Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic's Jon Lovett and former US diplomat Michael McFaul.
Donald Trump protesters hold signs about peace, equality, human rights and family values during a Sept 12 rally in North Carolina. Source: J. Bicking/ Shutterstock.com.
No, the Drudge Report can't stay stuck in unattractive photos of The Enemy, e.g. Hillary Clinton or sensationalistic headlines . So, it's no surprise that the Drudge Report headlines with a serious analysis of the new power structure in Washington D.C. - and in New York City.
Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed by Channel 4 News in the UK about his past statements that women offended online should just "log off" the internet and his assertion that, actually, Islam is the real culprit of rape culture. This is the moment Milo Yiannopoulos is challenged on @BreitbartNews headlines and so-called "post-truth politics."
That scares its critics, which consider Breitbart News the home of cheerleaders rather than journalists - and often offensive ones at that. Despite the opponents, Breitbart is unquestionably on a high following the surprise election of Trump, whose candidacy the web site unceasingly backed both before and after its leader, Stephen K. Bannon, was brought in to run the general election campaign.
JOURNALISM: The NYT publisher and executive editor would like you to take them seriously now now that they are done putting their all into getting Hillary Clinton elected. They'd like to be empowered for the purpose of undercutting President Trump.
Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, pictured at a June news conference down the street from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, would be a bold choice for White House press secretary. Let's just start by saying this exercise assumes President-elect Donald Trump will actually have a White House press secretary who delivers regular briefings.
Dissidents, human rights activists, and independent journalists in Cuba continue to suffer the increasing repression and persecution of the apartheid Castro dictatorship. Unfortunately, President Obama and most of the international community also continues to turn a blind eye to their anguish.
The single most important reform we need - even more important than political and economic reform - is reform of the media. I've campaigned for direct democracy - real democracy - for over thirty years, so I believe absolutely in the right of every citizen to make the political decisions of their government - not just elect so-called representatives.
It has been the ugliest election since 1824 , with plenty of winners and losers on both sides. But why wait until the final votes are counted? Here are the 10 winners and 10 losers of this presidential slog: Michelle Obama - The First Lady has always been eloquent , but her popularity and credibility soared with her sane, sober, non-self-righteous take-downs of Trump, concluding , "We need an adult in the White House."
News reports about the race for the White House on Russian TV devote most of their time to elaborating on Donald Trump's allegations that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and the election is rigged. "Clinton has a choice.
Jurors in Virginia has found Rolling Stone magazine defamed a University of Virginia administrator in a now-debunked story about an alleged rape on campus. What the verdict shows is that the U.S.'s system of libel laws are appropriately balanced with the freedom of the press - and that calls from both presidential candidates to weaken at the First Amendment are baseless and even dangerous.
In the penultimate episode of the Presidential podcast , we examine Barack Obama's search for identity and how that quest has paralleled America's own complex reckoning with race. "Trying to figure out his identity was really the story of his young life," says Washington Post journalist David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story .
While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously , independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage. One place you can go to find reporting is The Intercept , where journalist Jihan Hafiz filed a video report from North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies continue their stand against the sacred site-trampling, water supply-threatening project.
Donald Trump repeatedly rages that the media is biased against him, putting claims of press prejudice at the center of his campaign for president. Most voters - and not just those who are backing the Republican nominee - agree with him, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.