Humor

The Power of Radio!

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 3/24/26

Headline:  “Opinion | Was a conservative radio caller behind the idea to send ICE agents into airports?”

Subhead:  “A suggestion from ‘Linda from Arizona’ on The Clay and Buck Show made its way to Fox News and, soon after, into White House policy”

“. . .So, where did President Donald Trump get the idea to send ICE into airports to help the TSA? It might have been. . .

“Linda from Arizona.

“Several media observers — including Semafor’s Ben Smith and CNN’s Brian Stelter — noted that a woman named Linda called into Clay Travis’ conservative radio show last Friday and made the suggestion to deploy ICE to airports.

“Linda told ‘The Clay and Buck Show,’  ‘I think I have a solution to the TSA problem. … We need to bring in ICE agents.’ Travis replied, ‘Linda, I have to say that’s kind of a brilliant idea.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/ice-airports-radio-show-linda-arizona/

Fairness in Broadcasting?

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Article in Babylon Bee by Staff, 3/13/26

Headline: “To Save Time, CNN Will Now Run Retractions Simultaneously With News Stories”

“ATLANTA, GA — As part of the channel’s ongoing quest to ensure accurate media reporting, CNN has elected to run live retractions simultaneously with the news stories being reported at the time.

“Retractions will appear on an additional ticker at the bottom of the screen, retracting the usual live news updates with corrections of everything the on-screen anchor is saying. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://babylonbee.com/news/to-save-time-cnn-will-now-run-retractions-simultaneously-with-news-stories

Bad News Photos Not Allowed?

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 3/12/26

Headline:  “Opinion | You won’t believe why the Pentagon barred photographers from its briefings”

Subhead:  “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides objected to ‘unflattering’ photos of him — in the middle of a war”

“Boy, oh boy. These guys in the Trump administration. Just when you think they can’t get any more petty and thin-skinned and, to paraphrase one of their favorite words, snowflaky, they find another way to bellyache about something.

“The latest?

“The Washington Post’s Scott Nover writes, ‘The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed ‘unflattering,’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/pete-hegseth-unflattering-photos/

Has Concepts of the News?

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Article in The New Republic by Alex Shephard, 1/30/26

Headline: “What Bari Weiss Doesn’t Get About CBS News”

Subhead: “Her plan to focus on ‘scoops of ideas’ will only make the news network’s offerings more like (pretty much) everything else in media.”

“At an all-staff meeting on Tuesday, CBS News’s editor in chief Bari Weiss—perhaps the record-holder for the fastest the word embattled has ever been appended in front of a new job title—laid out her vision for the network she had taken the reins of only a few weeks earlier. . .”

“With her new charges in attendance, Weiss finally revealed her vision board for the future of CBS News, and the watchword is ‘scoops.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/article/205904/bari-weiss-scoops-cbs-news

Press Asks About Nobel

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Article in AlterNet by Adam Lynch, 1/9/26

Headline:   “Internet erupts after Trump’s ‘delusional’ press conference” 

Subhead:  “Critics across the internet tore into President Donald Trump’s impromptu meeting with reporters on Friday.”

“Trump took time out from a meeting to pressure oil executives to invest in the freshly decapitated nation of Venezuela. . .”

“When asked by a reporter If he would change his view on Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado running the country if she would give him her Nobel Peace Prize Trump answered: ‘Well, I’m going to have to speak to her. She might be involved in some aspect of it. I can’t think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel prize more than me’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-delusional-presser/

Nothing to Report Here

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Article in Daily Kos by Bidenmytime, 1/1/26

Headline:  “While the Media focuses on Childcare Fraud in Minnesota…”

Here is what else is going on…

Of course they are looting the Kennedy Center. They are looting everything.

”Democrats on the committee said they obtained documents that suggest the national cultural centre is being operated as a ‘slush fund and private club for Trump’s friends and political allies’ . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/1/2361007/-While-the-Media-focuses-on-Childcare-Fraud-in-Minnesota

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Article in The Washington Post by Elahe Izadi on MSN, 1/1/26

Headline:  “The ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’ website is taken. This comedian owns it.”

“The organization’s leaders might have wanted a new website to replace kennedy-center.org, too. But if they’d hoped for trumpkennedycenter.org, they were out of luck. A comedian bought it months ago.

“As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building,’” explains Toby Morton, a comedy writer with ‘South Park’ and ‘Mad TV’ credits who buys political domains and turns them into satirical websites as a form of activism. . . .”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-website-trumpkennedycenterorg-is-taken-this-comedian-owns-it/ar-AA1SJNVP

2025 – Year in Political Cartoons

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Martin Rowson/The Guardian

Article in The Guardian by Anna Mohdin and Sundus Abdi,12/30/25

Headline:  “Tuesday briefing: A surreal year in news gives our cartoonists endless material”

Subhead:  “In today’s newsletter: Covering everything from Donald Trump to AI, and Gaza to Ukraine, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings shares his favourite caricatures of 2025, and we share ours too.”

“Good morning. It’s been one of those years where the news cycle felt almost too surreal to caricature. From Jeff Bezos commandeering Venice for his lavish wedding at a time of a growing backlash over inequality, to the spectacle of Donald Trump returning to office for a second term, the material was endless for cartoonists, though often difficult to navigate.  .  .”
Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/first-edition-political-cartoons-of-2025

Media – Laugh or Cry?

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Article in Poynter by TyLisa Johnson, 12/26/25

Headline:  “Here are your favorite Poynter journalism memes from 2025”

Subhead:  “We laughed. We cried. It was a weird time to be a journalist, but comedy helped carry us through.”

“It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the nation’s most powerful people. At the same time, the work to share truth and report the news is needed now more than ever.

“It’s a nonstop grind, and a nearly nonstop news cycle.

“Well, as the saying goes, you have to laugh to keep from crying . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/poynter-journalism-memes-2025-news-humor-comedy/

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Article in Daily Kos by Brian McFadden, 12/26/25

Headline:  “Cartoon: Incredible global news 2025”

Cartoons by Brian McFadden

Read the Full Story at:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/26/2359573/-Cartoon-Incredible-global-news-2025?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_2&pm_medium=web

Media Booing-Coverage Illegal?

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Article in the Borowitz Report by Andy Borowitz, 11/12/25

Headline:  “Trump Orders ICE to Arrest 67,000 NFL Fans Who Booed Him”

“WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a move that tests the limits of presidential power, on Wednesday Donald J. Trump ordered ICE agents to arrest the 67,000 football fans who booed him at Sunday’s Washington Commanders game.

“ ‘This should never be allowed to happen in this country,’  Trump said, adding that the booing fans ‘were paid by Soros.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-orders-ice-to-arrest-67000?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2337656&post_id=178695363&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=54vskz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Satanic Demons & Media?

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Article in Media Matters by Payton Armstrong & Noah Dowe, 10/16/25

Headline:  “Calling their opponents ‘demonic,’ some right-leaning online shows are embracing ‘spiritual warfare’ rhetoric”

Subhead:  “Online figures and podcasters have warned of a ‘satanic world order’ and called on their audiences to ‘fight these demons in culture if we’re going to win politically’ ‘demonic.’ ”

“Some right-wing and right-leaning podcasters have embraced the extreme rhetoric of ‘spiritual warfare’ against their political opponents, accusing political and cultural figures they disagree with of harboring a ‘demonic’ ideology.”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/calling-their-opponents-demonic-some-right-leaning-online-shows-are-embracing