Lie to Get Viewers Back?

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 12/2/25

Headline:  “Murdochs blessed Fox News plan to air 2020 election fraud claims, Smartmatic alleges”

Subhead:  “In key hearing in defamation case, Fox counters that network simply covered allegations by Trump associates”

“Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 in a bid to win back viewers angry with the network, a lawyer for the voting technology company Smartmatic argued on Tuesday.

“ ‘The conservative viewers, their bread and butter, abandoned them,’ J Erik Connolly told the New York state supreme court judge David B Cohen. ‘So what do they do? They return back to what they know best: they return back to disinformation, pro-Trump propaganda and xenophobia. The election story and the election fraud claims was the perfect vehicle for them to get back onto their core messaging’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/02/rupert-lachlan-murdoch-fox-2020-election

Clowning Around in the Pentagon?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 12/2/25

Headline:  “The Pentagon’s Propagandists”

Subhead:  “The Pentagon held its first media briefing in months, hand-selecting a group lf MAGA influences to lob softballs – a charade that disgusted the actual journalists Pete Hegseth exiled earlier this year”

Read the article at:

https://www.status.news/p/pentagon-media-briefing-propagandists

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Article in The Washington Post by Scott Nover & Drew Harwell, 12/2/25

Headline:  “Pentagon upbraids mainstream media in briefing with pro-Trump press corps”

Subhead:  “Defense Department press secretary lays into “legacy media,” especially The Washington Post, at a news conference for the Pentagon’s now largely right-wing outlets.”

“The Pentagon’s press secretary excoriated the mainstream press, and particularly The Washington Post, at a news briefing Tuesday for the Pentagon’s newly credentialed media representatives, the first such event since Defense Department press restrictions spurred a mass exodus of established news organizations in October. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/02/pentagon-media/

Native Community Radio Struggles

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Photo by South Dakota Seachlight

Article in Indian Country Today by John Hult in the South Dakota Searchlight, 12/1/25

Headline:  “Tribal radio funding flows, but future remains uncertain after clawback of public media money”

Subhead: “KILI has raised $80,000 in donations since the summer, and $50,000 came from a single donor after the story ran in the New York Times.”

“PORCUPINE — For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high.

KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station Zephier manages, has gone digital and no longer needs the records.

The station is selling the records, because what it needs is cash. . .”

Read the full article at:


https://ictnews.org/news/tribal-radio-funding-flows-but-future-remains-uncertain-after-clawback-of-public-media-money

 

 

Fake News on “Media Offenders” Website?

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Article in Irish Star by Hannah Broughton, 11/30/25

Headline:  “Trump humiliated as he is forced to take down anti-media website hours after launch”

Subhead:  “In a whirlwind of irony, Trump’s latest venture to expose ‘media bias’ backfired spectacularly, leaving the White House scrambling to correct its own missteps”

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-humiliated-forced-take-down-36329415

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Article in Daily Beast by Jack Revell, 11/30/25

Headline:  “White House Forced to Correct Childish Anti-Media Site”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-forced-to-correct-childish-anti-media-site/

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Article in Huffington Post by Bryan Grenoble, 12/1/25

Headline:  “White House Media Attack Falls Apart After It Calls Fox ‘Woke’ “

Subhead: “Fox News said its inclusion on a White House webpage of ‘Media Offenders’ was a case of mistaken identity.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-media-hall-of-shame-fox-woke_n_692db994e4b0c8c3c7ce6e19?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Community Radio Through Difficulties

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Article in Reporters Without Borders by Staff 11/28/25

Headline:  “RSF documentary “Community Radios: The Fight to Keep the Sahel Informed” now available on Arte”

“As of 27 November, the Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) documentary titled, ‘Community Radios: The Fight to Keep the Sahel Informed’ , will be available to watch on Arte, the Franco-German public service television channel. Through a series of interviews with directors of three community radios in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the film reveals the challenges faced by journalists operating in a deteriorating security situation. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://rsf.org/en/rsf-documentary-community-radios-fight-keep-sahel-informed-now-available-arte

Journalists Enable Madmen?

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Article in Daily Beast by Jack Revell, 11/28/25

Headline:  “Rosie O’Donnell Rages at Reporters Enabling ‘Madman’ Trump”

Subhead:  “Trump’s long-time rival says journalists let him ‘verbally rape a woman’ with his ‘stupid person’ outburst.”

“. . .Reacting to a viral clip of the president berating a female reporter as ‘stupid’ on Thursday, O’Donnell said that White House journalists need to push back on Trump’s personal attacks.

“ ‘A decent person would stand up in spite of their job and say ‘I will not sit here and watch you verbally assault and attack and rape a woman,’ O’Donnell said.. .”

Read the full article at:

https://archive.ph/O1p1F#selection-1381.1-1391.160

Wait! Aren’t Media Always Correct?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Carolina Abbott Galvão, 11/26/25

Headline:  “Could Public Skepticism of the Press Actually Be Good for Democracy?”

Subhead:  “An expert on political communication explains how Argentina’s history of public lying created a protective barrier between citizens and information, and how distrust can help fight autocracy.”

“. . .the authors of The Patina of Distrust, a new book that explores how people interpret misinformation, argue that that perspective overlooks a crucial piece of the puzzle. Basing their findings on extensive research conducted in the wake of Argentina’s 2019 elections, they conclude that news consumers are less susceptible to falsehood than we might anticipate. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/public-skepticism-press-good-thing-patina-distrust-argentina-eugenia-mitchelstein.php

Looking at Media You Don’t Like?

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones

Headline:  “The White House’s ‘media offender’ list will fizzle. The reporting won’t.”

Subhead:  “The Trump administration’s latest attack on reporters won’t stop newsrooms from holding it accountable”

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/white-house-media-offender-list-trump-press-attacks/

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Article in Committee to Protect Journalists by Staff

Headline:  “Trump administration’s ‘media bias’ list raises alarm, CPJ says”

https://cpj.org/2025/12/trump-administrations-media-bias-list-raises-alarm-cpj-says/

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Article in The Guardian by Marina Dunbar, 11/29/25

Headline:  “White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories”

Subhead:  “Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/white-house-media-website-trump

Buying All The Media?

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Article in Common Dreams by Robert Reich, 11/26/25

Headline:  “The Billionaires Destroying Our Media System and What To Do About It”

Subhead: “In an era when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals who have bought up key media, there is a growing danger that the public will not be getting the truth it needs to function in this democracy”

“The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

“The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios.

“Another billionaire owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post.

“Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? Vanity may play a part, but there’s a more pragmatic — some might say sinister — reason. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/billionaire-ownership-media

Sometimes The Press Fails

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Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 11/26/25

Headline:  “Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre”

“. . .As Joe Torres (Free Press, 5/27/21), co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up. The other main local paper, the Tulsa World, provided the white narrative of the massacre in its headline (6/1/1921) the next day: ‘Two Whites Dead in Race Riot.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/press-remembers-oldest-survivor-of-tulsa-massacre-but-not-presss-role-in-massacre/