The Media Play Dumb on Their Role in the Graham Platner Implosion

The Media Quest for the Dominant Narrative

All the force of authority.

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News stories featured in Gadfly Bites may require a paid subscription to read in full. You have been warned. Far less to cover today after Wednesday’s gargantuan catch-up post, and all three of these are follow-ups from previous stories. First is our own Chad Aldis with his sassy take on that Network for Public Education report that gave Ohio an F grade for the mere existence of laws supportive of charter and private schools. “It’s not a paper with strong analytics,” he tells State Affairs Read More

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Watch: Doug Burgum's Savage Schooling of Media Over Reflecting Pool

Watch: Doug Burgum's Savage Schooling of Media Over Reflecting Pool

TRUMP ESCALATES PRESSURE ON MEDIA

TRUMP ESCALATES PRESSURE ON MEDIA (Main headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:DOJ SUBPOENAS NYT JOURNALISTS

Newton Emerson: The political fallout from Donaldson’s downfall may only be beginning

Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the stories making the news this week

A Royal Pain

Tom Bower is the only celebrity biographer who does his job properly. All his biographies are unauthorized, from his first essay in the form, the life of the Nazi sadist Klaus Butcher of Lyon Barbie, to his latest, Betrayal, on Meghan and Harry's campaign of self-enrichment and revenge. On the way, Bower has done the dirty on British politicians (Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown) and been sued by the media magnates Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson, Conrad Black, and also Richard Desmond, who made his money in pornography and then sank to newspaper publishing.The post A Royal Pain appeared first on .

Tacloban school shooting suspect played violent videogame | The wRap

Today’s headlines: Tacloban shooting, Duterte impeachment, UK’s Starmer

The day James Comey blew up the world

10 years ago today now: “It is hard to think of another single event in the last decade that has had such far-reaching and sweeping and unintended global consequences as Jim Comey’s press conference.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus [image or embed] — Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of disarray” (@ryanjreilly.com) 9:17 AM · Jul [] The post The day James Comey blew up the world appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking

But our major news outlets apparently aren’t up to the job. The post Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking appeared first on Press Watch.

The Supreme Court Came One Vote Away From Embracing Trump’s Ballot-Fraud Fantasies

“It seems like they are not reading real news or talking to normal people; they are absolutely on a Fox News IV drip.”

NPR's Alito Blunder

NPR's Alito Blunder

He BUSTED for LIES about War casualties in Iran #breakingnews #tyt #anakasparian

Pete Hegseth gets totally busted by CBS News Faure lying about the severity of war casualties never mind to cover how horribly quagmire in the straight of horror moves has gone at the behest of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and influence from Israel and its lobbies. For once the media is less complicit than normal, all as tensions escalate into a hot war in jeopardizing, what was essentially a nonexistent peace negotiation that the Trump administration has claimed has been successful, but in reality is just a nightmare.

What We’re Reading: Britain’s Net Zero Trap, U.S. Oil Dominance, Pity Poor Platner … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye. California’s top politicians’ secret Yelp reviews revealed — and Katie Porter’s are as unhinged as ever — New York Post Iran’s hardliners are about to expose the cost of Europe’s failure to back Trump — London Telegraph Conservatives are blowing the easiest political win in America — Blaze Media []

‘Freakonomics’ Creator Stephen Dubner Is Launching a Talk Show With Guests at His New York City Home: ‘People Are Much Hungrier for Substance Than the Conventional Wisdom Says’

Stephen Dubner, the journalist, podcaster and bestselling author behind the Freakonomics franchise, is getting in front of the camera with a self-financed TV-style talk show. Dubner, host of the “Freakonomics Radio” podcast, is launching “Better in Person,” described as “an indie TV talk show that bets on depth at a time when most media is []

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The Supreme Court Case That Reveals Just How Pickled Sam Alito’s Brain Is

“It seems like they are not reading real news or talking to normal people; they are absolutely on a Fox News IV drip.”

Are British Civil Servants Merrily Playing ‘GTA Online’ at the Taxpayer’s Expense?

Scandalous waste of resources or conservative media beat-up? Oh go on, guess.

Only A Sith (And Whoopi Goldberg) Deals In Absolutes

A journalist or newsperson knows better than to make absolute, broad, sweeping statements about something they didn’t know about or that was easily disprovable; they would hedge on the existence of an edge case that could embarrass them. But that wasn’t the case with Whoopi Goldberg of “The View,” the moderator for what ABC has ...

The Snoop: Mitch McConnell’s proof of life, One Nation’s new media friends, and more

Plus: The Australian journalist behind an almighty press row as English cricket falls into shambles again. The post The Snoop: Mitch McConnell’s proof of life, One Nation’s new media friends, and more appeared first on Crikey.

How to Lie With Statistics

The New York Times has probably put out more significant misinformation than any other news outlet over the last 40 years. Being scrupulously fair, I admit that the National Enquirer may have propounded even more fake stories than the Times, but the Enquirer’s misinformation is generally insignificant–three-headed calves, cabbages that look like Jesus, and the like–while the Times’ lies are important, like the Russia collusion hoax. Here is a nice

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How I uncovered the real story of the Putney Pusher: RORY TINGLE

How I uncovered the real story of the Putney Pusher: RORY TINGLE

Bloomberg This Weekend 6/21/2026

The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by The Associated Press International Correspondent Philip Crowther, ABC News State Department Reporter Shannon Kingston, International Maritime Organization Arsenio Domingues, Founder and Author, “The Energy Word” Dan Dicker, Author of “Users” BeeBan Kidron, Fmr. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, Politico NY State Politics Reporter Jason Beeferman and “The New Fatherhood: Author Kevin Maguire. (Source: Bloomberg)

Clarence Thomas Laughs As MS NOW Reporter Barrages Him With Questions

'You wanna answer any of them?'

Newsom pathetically whines about the US media landscape in hypocritical rant

California Governor Gavin Newsom has crashed out over the media landscape in America. The California governor took to his podcast ‘This is Gavin Newsom’ to whine about the media. Newsom goes on to call conservative media a “sewer that has a presidential seal”. Hypocritically, the governor finished by saying that left-wing media acts in a similar manner.

Fair Is Fair: Trump&#8217;s Disaster on the Mall Looms Large

This piece originally appeared in Rawstory: You can hear the whispering in the White House across the Mall from the Smithsonian Aviation Museum, “Well, that didn’t work, and that’s bad – really bad,” talking about the “Great American State Fair.” Aaron Rupar, the Left’s irreplacable and most deeply embedded intel agent, captured Fox News’s inability to paper over a debacle devoid

Paul Vallas: Chicago media is laboring to convince us the Broadview 6 are the new Chicago 7 – Chicago Contrarian

When the press prioritizes the performative theatrics of a few political actors over the rescue of two dozen children and the dismantling of international gang cells, it isn’t just biased reporting. It is a profound disservice to a city desperate for real safety, exposing a media elite completely intoxicated by manufactured valor.

LIVE: It All Just Came Crashing Down for Graham Platner

LIVE: It All Just Came Crashing Down for Graham Platner

Platner Media Stans In Stages Of Grief: Denial, Anger, Anthony Weiner, Depression, Acceptance

It's very predictable.

Full Frontal's Amy Hoggart On The British Political Meltdown

Comedian Amy Hoggart—of Full Frontal and the “What’s Left” Substack—joins Cliff Schecter for a fast, funny hour decoding the political chaos across the Atlantic. Keir Starmer just became the least popular prime minister in recorded British history, got shoved out in a bloodless “coup,” likely to be replaced by Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. Nigel Farage’s Reform is cratering after a £5 million crypto donation scandal. It’s a wild story—and Hoggart, who actually loses sleep researching these constituencies at 3 a.m., is the perfect guide through it. Under the jokes is a warning every American Democrat should hear. Starmer’s government quietly delivered—free childcare, renter protections—and told absolutely no one, the same fatal flaw Cliff sees strangling the Democratic Party: do the good thing, refuse to tell the story, and let the Farages and Trumps take the credit. Watch the video and go to Blue Amp Media for the rest of the crazy British story read more

NBA media has jumped the shark on Jaylen Brown

Much like Jaylen Brown, analytics are imperfect.

The demand for news video is growing (and that’s a good thing for publishers)

News video is as popular as ever. Publishers who remember the “pivot to video” from a decade ago might wince at the thought, remembering how misleading metrics led many publishers to invest in video content. But evidence from our newly published Digital News Report suggests the demand for news video is growing. A decade on,...

Who is Graham Platner? Inside the growing scandal

Who is Graham Platner? Inside the growing scandal