“FAFO Found Out; Reported Killed By Fellow Gazans in Tribal Dispute”—
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/12/fafo-found-out-n3807764#google_vignette

+ Bonus:
“The Arab media giant accused of pushing Hamas propaganda;
“Al Jazeera has faced growing criticism as tensions in the Middle East intensify”—
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/97cf2f5079a2451a

H/T Powerline blog (for both).

No more, no less… (though since we’re living in a Through-the-Looking-Glass BIZARRO world, the demonizing Democrats and assorted anti-Trump cultists believe the EXACT SAME THING WRT Trump and his supporters….sigh.)

File under: Barmygeddon?

The Left’s recent tactic has been to offer Leftist political engagement as a social necessity. Lonely people make the best leftists since it gives them what they think is a social life and a sense of belonging.

For me, I’ve recognized politics as having a tremendous influence on my life choices and my prospects for a better life.

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……I expect the Democrats to avoid blame for the shutdown…..”

— djf

Yep, that’s a slam dunk.

— JohnTyler

No, it isn’t.

The media not only controls the news, they create the news, they invent news and they make news totally disappear when is suits their agenda.

This allows the demonkrats to deceive, to lie, to misrepresent , to engage in illegal behaviour – all brushed under the carpet by the media.

This results in about 1/2 of the electorate believing everything they hear from the demoncrats.

I do not know what the solution is to the “media problem,” though by now one would have thought that the dumbpublicans would have developed means to counter the Quisling, the Fifth Columnist media.

— JohnTyler

At one time, the Left had near-100% news dominance. That is no longer the case, much to the dismay of the smarter Lefty players.

Remember, we had a government shutdown over immigration during Trump’s first term, I believe in 2018, and Trump won the PR battle. The public sided with Trump and Schumer had to back down.

Now Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell proceeded to give the victory back to the Dems in the subsequent budget negotiations, but that doesn’t change the fact that there was a government shutdown battle and the GOP won it. At the time that came as a shock, because it just didn’t happen because the Dems controlled the information terrain, or had until that point.

Today, FOXnews is a side show. It matters, but podcasts and other Internet-based channels are more important. Trump masterfully took advantage of that fact in the 2024 election. GOP PR victory is not guaranteed today, but it’s a very real possibility.

* Jonathan Solomon, Sarah Carter are two.

Taibbi’s article is a boatload capture of Comey’s evil, arrogant subversion of his job and his oath.
He’s got to go down.

“Jim Comey: A Man of Many Faces, None Of Which Are Speech Martyrs;
“Forty-two judges take a stand in the dumbest group letter ever”—
https://www.racket.news/p/jim-comey-a-man-of-many-faces-none
H/T Powerline blog.

I agree. They have always done what they do now, but they were less likely to be caught at it and they were less blatant about it.

For example, in 1992 “Dateline NBC” rigged a truck with model rocket engines to explode so they could use the footage in a story about GM trucks being likely to explode in low speed collisions; they also lied about the speed of the collision in the footage.

In 1986 “60 Minutes” rigged an Audi with a compressed-air device to make it accelerate with no driver, to illustrate their story on “unintended acceleration incidents”, which in every case turned out to be people hitting the gas instead of the brake.

Both stories were fed to these news organizations by PR firms working for lawyers planning to profit from the lawsuits. Both stories were rare examples, in those days, of them getting caught.

If you can stand to, watch local and national evening news for about a week. Pay close attention and you will see that many stories are illustrated with stock footage of completely different events from the ones being reported on. Look closely at news articles in print and on web pages, and see how many are illustrated with stock photos of completely different, and often staged, events. (The caption nearly always indicates a stock photo.)

The legacy media has always relied on stories packaged and fed to them by government and PR firms, and has always been willing to deliberately mislead in service of those stories.

That is my perception as well.

However, they maintained a lot of that credibility because people didn’t know the extent of the hypocrisy and bias of both.
The Dan Rather Memo Scandal tore off some masks, but a lot of people still believe Rather’s hit job on Bush was true.
And “60 Minutes” still has a reputation for veracity that is undeserved.

How many people knew, at the time, that Duranty lied? How many learned later? How many who knew, just didn’t care?