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CNN spent years feeding off MAGA trolls for ratings. iPINIONS contends that now, with the Trump-aligned Ellisons looming as new owners, the network may be forced to become the very propaganda machine it once scorned. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-fox-newsing-and-podcasting-of Read more.
Joe Rogan is right. There will never be a Joe Rogan on the left. But that’s only because left-leaning audiences have too much intelligence and common sense. So they’d never find his brand of macho posturing and rambling conspiracies entertaining. Frankly, his assertion is pure projection. Rogan thrives on misinformation and reckless provocation, so accusing… Read more.
Trump’s $20 billion-plus payday: The ultimate political bribe Reports indicate that Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump are scheming to solidify their transactional alliance by merging X with Truth Social. Foremost, this deal would make Trump richer than even his wildest boasts. Musk, with a net worth exceeding $260 billion, recently made a staggering $25… Read more.
Carlson interviewing Putin reflects the new (Trumpian) norm Alas, we live in an America that now blithely tolerates treason. Only that explains American Tucker Carlson traveling to Moscow to interview America’s foreign enemy No. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, has interviewed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin… Read more.
On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Fox News settled Dominion’s defamation lawsuit. The chickens are finally coming home to roost for Fox. In this case, the chickens are the lies it peddled about the 2020 presidential election. Fox did so to entertain rather than inform its viewers. And peddling lies was good for business. So Fox peddled them religiously. One of the… Read more.
Fox News propagated the big lie that Democrats rigged the 2020 Election. And it accused Dominion Voting Systems of flipping votes to help them do it. Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Its filings have disclosed incriminating text and email exchanges among Fox personnel. And they are proving to be the… Read more.
I’ve been waging a quixotic campaign for years to out Rupert Murdoch as a greater danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Back in 2019, I called for mainstream and social media to pillory Murdoch mercilessly for presiding over a propaganda machine that would shock even Joseph Goebbels. His anchors present propaganda with such religious conviction… Read more.
At a joint press conference today, President Trump doubled down on his belief in President Putin’s denial that Russia launched cyberattacks on the 2016 US presidential election. This, despite his own intelligence agencies — the CIA, FBI, and NSA — saying Russia did. Not to mention the Mueller investigation, which indicted 12 Russian agents for… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the media’s amoral code of conduct that they transitioned a few days ago, with nary a pause, from reporting on the Rosetta spacecraft landing on Comet 67P, to broadcasting the latest recording from the Daesh/ISIS leader calling his foot soldiers to arms. They punctuated the latter today with lurid wall-to-wall coverage… Read more.
