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Dec 26 2014
Opinion
Notable Quotables: Worst of the Worst 2014, Annual Awards for Year's Worst Reporting
Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2014 (December 2013 through November 2014).
To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 40 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third
Media Research CenterJan 20 2015
News
Ted Cruz: 'Would It Kill Republicans To Crack A Joke?'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) thinks it wouldn't hurt for the GOP to show off its sense of humor.
“Would it kill Republicans to crack a joke?” Cruz said at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, according to Politico. “I actually think for some Republicans it might. You know, lighten up a little. … So many Republicans run a Soviet-style campaign.”
While at the event, Cruz
HuffPostAug 08 2019
Opinion
Mass shootings are about alienation, not ideology
Before you even clicked the headlines, you could have guessed a great deal about the background of the murderers in Ohio and Texas who killed at least 29 people and injured many more in the span of roughly as many hours.
You knew they would be white, of course, and young. They would probably be unmarried or estranged from their wives or girlfriends. They would have no children, perhaps
Guest Writer - RightNov 06 2019
News
The Phrase ‘OK, Boomer’: Justified or Not?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
The phrase “OK, Boomer” has gone viral this week, after news outlets picked it up as an internet slang expression commonly employed by millennials and Generation Z. The reply, popularized in memes and other social media content, is Abridge NewsJan 24 2020
News
Authors, academics defend Babson College professor fired for Facebook post on Iran bombing
More than 155 authors, academics, and free speech advocates, including authors Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, and actress Molly Ringwald, are pushing a Massachusetts college to reinstate a professor who was abruptly fired over a Facebook post.
In response to President Trump's tweet threatening to bomb Iran's cultural heritage sites Jan. 4, Asheen Phansey, who was an adjunct
Fox News (Online News)Mar 20 2020
News
Finding harmony together, miles apart
Cancellations of school events this spring have spurred creative expressions online. Here's how one high school chamber group in California responded.
Many of the millions of people who are suddenly working from home are struggling with a new frontier: the 24/7 company of children and angsty teens they can usually pack off to school. While some families are alternately pulling out their
Christian Science MonitorAug 05 2019
News
Expressing your anger at gerrymandering? There's a font for that.
Plenty of congressional districts get mocked for looking like parts of a Rorschach test. But only now have some creative folks conjured up the letters A through Z. It was hard not to see "a rabbit on a skateboard" in last decade's map for Illinois, or "Goofy kicking Donald Duck" in the Philadelphia suburbs until a few years ago, or — most famously — a salamander slithering across Massachusetts
The FulcrumNov 03 2019
News
The Trouble with TikTok
Margaret Sullivan was having fun. The Washington Post media critic and former public editor of the New York Times collaborated in the production of a humorous musical video on TikTok earlier this month. “You hardened journos may think this is pointless,” she tweeted, “but the street cred I now have with my 12-year-old twin goddaughters...” A few days later, another Washington Post TikTok
PoliticoJun 17 2020
News
Howard Stern fires back at Donald Trump Jr. for retweeting N-word, blackface skit
Howard Stern is firing back at Donald Trump Jr. for calling out his past use of racially offensive humor.
It all started last week when controversy erupted over Stern’s use of blackface and the N-word in a 1993 comedy sketch that resurfaced online Thursday. It was edited together with Stern’s recent appearance on “The View,” in which he claims he never used the racial slur.
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New York Post (News)May 25 2020
Opinion
The ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Has Passed Its Tipping Point
A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.
About 35 years ago I was sitting at lunch next to Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who became a foreign-policy adviser to President Reagan and later U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was lamenting what she called the “liberal leaning” media. As the president of CBS News
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)