The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Robert D. Chain, a 68-year-old man from Encino, CA, had been arrested and charged with threatening to kill employees of the Boston Globe newspaper, allegedly using language mirroring that of President Donald Trumpâs ongoing attacks against any and all media outletsâŚ
A plurality of Republicans said President Trump should have the authority to unilaterally shut down media outlets he doesnât like, according to new polling published Tuesday by the Daily Beast.
Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, who is very much a part of the media himself, told a White House staffer to âgo on offenseâ against the media on Friday.
During his press conference Friday morning with British Prime Minister Theresa May, President Trump was very much himself, if a little more pissed off, since his trip to visit Americaâs special friend across the pond is going very, very poorly. So he fell back on a tried and true tactic: attacking the media.
This Wednesday, Facebook held a press conference with journalists to discuss its renewed efforts to combat misinformation on the platform. According to BuzzFeed News, the company began by screening a 12-minute documentary on fake news by the Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville before turning to the reporters.
Since the first press conference Donald Trump gave as president-elect, no one has embodied CNNâs relationship with his administration more than Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. Trump singled out the journalist in a bizarro exchange in the belly of Trump Tower in January 2017: âYou are fake news,â he saidâŚ
With each passing day of the Trump administration, facts are harder and harder to come by. Weâre still coping with the consequences of weaponizing social media and the proliferation of fake news, which in no small part defined the 2016 election. So it should come as no surpriseâbut is still extremely depressing allâŚ
President Donald Trump and his aidesâ hatred of White House staffers dishing to journalists is matched only by their collective inability to stop dishing to journalists. There are plenty of reasons to talk to reportersâprotest and self-preservation first among themâand slices of life behind the Oval Office curtainâŚ
Donald Trump only attracts the best people. The biggest patriots. Americaâlovers, one and all.
And an announcement: this will be the last of my own comics posted on Splinter. Iâve been grateful for the many intelligent comments (seriously!) and awed by some of your usernames. If youâd like to keep up with me in the future, you can follow me on Twitter at @JenSorensen
Journalistsâ introspection following the 2016 presidential election has included endless re-litigation of the role played by fake news and other low-quality information sources. So right on time, we have a report in Politico detailing how a new, hyper-partisan press is emerging in states around the country, musclingâŚ
House Intelligence Committee Chairman and Trump stooge Devin Nunes apparently has been operating a ânewsâ site for months that no one seems to have known about.
On average, Donald Trump lobbed a âfakeâ insult more than once per day since he became president. Here are just a few!
Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.
With bated breath, American journalists have waited for President Donald Trump to release his list of the worst media outlets in the country. He finally did so Wednesday night, but the GOPâs official website, which hosted the list, promptly crashed.
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, self-styled (pseudo) critic of Donald Trump, joined ABC News on Sunday to discuss a speech he plans to deliver Wednesday on the Senate floor, the same day our president will take time from his golfing to deliver âfake newsâ awards.
Fox News blowhole and mixed martial arts enthusiast Sean Hannity tweeted this on Thursday:
As Facebook has slowly come clean about its distribution of Russian-financed political ads during last yearâs presidential race, the tech giant has launched a major PR salvo to show how much it loves democracy. CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the ways the company will be a âforce for goodâ in a video last month. Ads inâŚ
Thomas Jefferson was looking for someone to write a hit piece. It was July 1793, just months after the U.S. declared neutrality in a war between Britain and France. The then-Secretary of State wanted a writerâor better yet, an entire publicationâto criticize the governmentâs decision and respond to the colleague whoâŚ
