Media Misinformation

Media Promote War?

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Article in Common Dreams by Ricardo Vaz, 11/20/25

Headline:  “Venezuela Gets the Iraq Treatment: US Corporate Media Manufactures Consent for Another Imperialist War”

Subhead:  “Over weeks of military buildup and threats, corporate outlets elected to ignore the evidence disproving Trump’s claims and to platform warmongers.”

“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. Rather, they are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

Where’s Media?

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Article in The Contrarian by Josh Levs, 11/19/25

Headline:  “Trump’s Epstein call is coming from inside the house”

Subhead:  “There’s something we know for certain, and the media is failing to convey it clearly.”

“When a House committee released some documents related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein last week, the overtly partisan media did what it always does: grab a few lines out of context and rush to sweeping conclusions. Mainstream media did what it always does, as well: find any morsels to play up in hopes of getting people to click, watch, listen, or read, even if it’s unclear what those morsels mean. So, yet again, the public has been subjected to a confusing morass in the news. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-epstein-call-is-coming-from

Networks Have Broadcast Licenses?

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 11/18/25

Headline:  “Trump threatens ABC News broadcast license after reporter asks about Epstein “

“President Trump attacked an ABC News reporter Tuesday after she asked about the Epstein files, threatening to have the network taken off the air for questioning him about the controversy. . .”

Read the full story at:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5611057-president-trump-threatens-abc/

Watch TV – Send Troops

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Article in ProPublica by Rob Davis, 11/12/25

Headline: ” ‘Riots Raging’: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops”

Subhead: “After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of ‘Portland rioters’ routinely instigating violence was misleading.”

“When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television.

“He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. ‘What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,’ he said, a comment that became an internet meme as some Portland residents juxtaposed it with tranquil images of the city. . .”

Read the full story at:

http://“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops

Pardon the Media Too?

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Article in Mediaite by Colby Hall 11/10/25

Headline:  “Trump’s Pardons Are Rewriting His 2020 Failed Coup — And the Media Is Letting Him”

“President Donald Trump is betting you’ve already forgotten how close the nation came to an abject election meltdown in 2020. Judging by the way the media will almost certainly cover his latest wave of pardons — speed-run through the news cycle and treated like just another Trump social media post — he may be right. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/trumps-pardons-are-rewriting-his-2020-failed-coup-and-the-media-is-letting-him/

Full Mental News?

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Article in AlterNet by Robert Reich, 11/6/25

Headline:  “The media once again misses the real news about Trump’s rapid mental decline “

” ‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT’ . . .”,  according to Pollsters,’ Trump posted after Tuesday’s blowout, not naming the pollsters.

“Yet the media obediently repeated Trump’s words, as if they were news.

“They aren’t news. They’re postures. His words and thoughts add nothing to our understanding of anything. Yet the media reproduces them as if they did.

“He says whatever happens to be in his brain at the moment. He posts about whatever annoys him at the moment. He constantly changes his mind. His brain wanders in ways that cause many to question whether he — who will be 80 in June, and whose family has a history of dementia — is all there. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-mental/

Rt. Wing & Media Enemies

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Article in AlterNet by Jon Stoehr, 11/5/25

Headline:  “Democratic elites fall for lies from Trump and the right-wing media complex”

“. . .to Donald Trump. All Democrats, all liberals, all progressives, all leftists, and all socialists, democratic and otherwise, are the name. They are radical Marxist anarchist communists or whatever word salad pops into his soupy brain. There are no enemies to his right. There is nothing but enemies to his left. Does he respect his enemies enough to speak truthfully about them?

“No, he lies. . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/trump-media-democrats/

Media and the New Distortion

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Article in The Guardian by Arwa Mahdawi, 11/4/25

Headline:  “Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level”

Subhead:  “How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia?

“. . .As we all know, a good journalist should always make the rich and powerful feel comfortable.

“While I wait for that day to come, I’m watching and learning from the head honchos at CBS. Trump appeared on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night for his first sit-down with the show in five years and commented on how much better the network has become after its owner, Paramount, was taken over by his billionaire allies, the father-and-son duo Larry and David Ellison. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/04/trump-media-buddies-are-muddling-reality-whole-new-level

Departing Reporters – On Wrong Tracks

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Article in The New Republic by Jason Linkins, 11/2/25

Headline:  “This Is the Media’s Worst Euphemism for Trump’s Tyrannical Abuses”

Subhead:  “Readers beware—and be on the lookout for the ‘departure.’ ”

“. . .Behold, the ‘departure.’ Back on September 10, The New York Times used the term in their report of the Trump administration’s extrajudicial killings on the high seas. Their sources, per the report, provided ‘new details about a military operation that was a startling departure. . .’ ”

“. . .More recently, a CNN report on Trump having collected a $130 million private donation to pay military service salaries—a highly impeachable offense for what is a comically paltry sum of money—explained that the move ‘marks a striking departure. . .’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure

 

Attacks by Media Attacked

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Article in Mediaite by Zachary Leeman, 10/28/25

Headline:  “Michael Moore Goes Off On ‘Racist and Disgusting Attacks’ From Media Against Mamdani: ‘Level of Hate Is Sickening’ “

“The Bowling for Columbine director praised Mamdani for handling himself with ‘courage, dignity, and class’ amid the attacks.

“ ‘From open violent threats directed at Zohran and his family, to hateful and bigoted TV ads, to racist and disgusting attacks from the media and his opponents, the level of hate is sickening, Moore wrote. . .’ ”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/michael-moore-goes-off-on-racist-and-disgusting-attacks-from-media-against-mamdani-level-of-hate-is-sickening/