Austrian president rebukes far-right leader over media jibe

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria’s president rebuked the far-right deputy head of government on Friday for accusing the national broadcaster and one of its journalists of lying.

Heinz-Christian Strache, who led the anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPO) to third place in last year’s parliamentary ( Read more... )

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Damn You Internet. Stop Changing Reality!

Corbyn-bashing 'centrist' media like the Guardian can jog right on
What we need right now is not more centrist op-eds from out-of-touch "liberal" media outlets. What we need is a shift in press so enamoured of its own interests.What failing traditional media have lost in revenue and influence, they have ( Read more... )

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The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You ThinkHow did big media miss the Donald Trump swell? News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign. The overwhelming assumption was that the race ( Read more... )

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Well Fuck. Let's Just Have a Do Over and Just End It Already. Merchants of Death Ready to Profit from the Blood and Tears of the Brown People We are Going to Liberate.

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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria

Exclusive: The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas ( Read more... )

ADVERTISERS CONTINUE TO DROP FOX NEWS' 'O'REILLY FACTOR'Advertisers continued to abandon Fox News' top-rated show "The O'Reilly Factor" on Wednesday, as fallout from a scandal involving the show's namesake host persisted ( Read more... )

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Media Sets the Bar so Low that El Presidente Naranja Will Have to Limbo Dance on His Way Out. Chris Hayes Sucks.

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Media Fawn Over Trump’s Success at Saying Words in Semi-Coherent FashionWhat came to be known as the “expectations game” during the George W. Bush years was wielded with notorious cynicism. The assumption behind this game in those ( Read more... )