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May 16 2024
News
Kansas City Chiefs' Harrison Butker attacked LGBTQ rights and said women grads were excited about marriage and kids. Here’s what social media said.
People online are reacting after Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a speech last weekend at a college commencement ceremony in which he spoke about his duty to be “unapologetically Catholic,” and cited abortion, surrogacy, IVF and “a growing support for degenerate cultural values in media.” While the recent Super Bowl champion, a teammate of Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce,
Yahoo NewsApr 26 2024
Perspectives Blog
How Media Bias Shaped Jury Selection in Trump’s Hush Money Trial
Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial were asked: “What are your main sources of news and commentary?” as part of a 42-question juror questionnaire, which the lawyers used to help determine how a juror may rule in the case. Here were their responses:
Note: The questionare also included Google, TikTok, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Truth
Clare AshcraftApr 21 2024
News
Pinkerton: The Proliferation of 'Disinformation' Media and A.I. Put More Bricks in the Wall
Sometimes small things reveal big realities: And that’s the case with disinformation, which has been variously defined as everything from “foreign propaganda” to “conservative beliefs.” We are reminded: They are always putting another brick in The Wall. For instance, this recent item from TV Newser: “Ahead of the 2024 presidential election Scripps News is launching a six-person Disinformation
Breitbart NewsApr 07 2024
News
A Disappointing Trump Media Stock (DJT) Analysis
The March and April SEC filings provide the information needed to analyze the Trump Media merger. Unfortunately for the new shareholders coming from Digital Acquisition, the result is disappointing. First, after an enthusiastic 2021-22 market environment, conditions turned negative in 2023. The delay decreased interest, so the merger actions slowed, and the Digital Acquisition stock stagnated
ForbesApr 17 2024
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NBA media suggests Warriors are ready to move on from Wiggins
Whenever an NBA team’s season ends, like it did for the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night, the offseason content machine begins — if it ever really stops, that is. But one through line appeared in pieces looking at the Warriors’ tenuous space after their blowout loss to the Kings in the play-in tournament: The Dubs seem like they’re ready to move on from Andrew Wiggins. Multiple national
SFGATEApr 30 2024
News
78% of Americans believe social media companies wield too much power: Pew survey
While there seems to be an unending rift between Republicans and Democrats on virtually every issue, there appears to be something both sides can agree on: Social media companies are too powerful.
According to the Pew Research Center, 78% of Americans believe social media companies wield too much power. To break it down even more, 84% of Republicans and 74% of Democrats hold this view
The BlazeApr 27 2024
News
Demonstrators protest media coverage of Israel-Hamas war at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Demonstrators are protesting media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attended by President Biden, top government officials and journalists who cover them. Protestors are criticizing President Biden’s administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and mainstream media’s coverage of the conflict. Chants of “Free, free Palestine” and
The HillApr 12 2024
Opinion
The Media Did Not Make Up Trump’s Russia Scandal
NPR reporter Uri Berliner wrote an essay for The Free Press arguing that the network has lost chunks of its audience by growing too dogmatically progressive. Some of the evidence supports his claim. Unfortunately, he undermines his case by leading with an example that in no way vindicates the thesis, and actually undermines it: coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal.
Berliner presents the
New York MagazineApr 24 2024
News
Catholic graduate school and media group buys Boeing retreat near Florissant
The Augustine Institute, currently based near Denver, closed the deal Monday for the Boeing Leadership Center to build what it calls a national center for evangelization. The new campus for the graduate school of theology will open in fall 2024. Other operations will move to St. Louis County over the next few years, according to a press release. The new location will “transform the work of the
St. Louis Post-DispatchApr 27 2024
News
Iraqi social media influencer Um Fahad shot dead by motorbike gunman in Baghdad
Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as Um Fahad or "mother of Fahad," was popular on the social media sites TikTok and Instagram, where she posted videos of herself dancing to music and was followed by tens of thousands of
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