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B J Sutherland's avatar

Watch Democracy Now! Not a chicken in sight. Make sure you donate too.

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Loren Bliss's avatar

There's also the World Socialist Web Site (https://www.wsws.org/en), which is our very best tool for transcending the censorship inflicted on us by the mainstream media monopoly's function as the world's first privately owned, for (maximum) profit reproduction of Josef Goebbels' Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, the infamous Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

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Ed Walker's avatar

Maybe after the shameful white-wasshing of Israeli starving Gazans and especially children, the raters will award the New York Times an additional chicken.

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SteveB's avatar

First term, the Washington Post gave him Pinocchios, second term he gives them chickens.

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TooLateToBeBad's avatar

I appreciate the metric but the actual terms used are going to get as twee as the Pinocchio index for fact-checking in a real hurry.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

*Only* 36% of people say they have no trust in media at this point, according to the Media Capitulation Index report? I feel like the other 64% isn't consuming enough media content or some of these folks are kidding themselves.

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SteveB's avatar

Now that the axe has fallen and NPR/PBS have lost all their federal funding, can we expect a greater willingness to report honestly on the Trump administration? Old habits of bothsidesing and knee-bending take some time to unlearn.

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