Category: media

[Premiering 9/2, 10:30 AM ET] How the Media–Political System Is Fueling Riots and Gaslighting America: Julio Rosas

Violent riots that have led to looting, arson, and murder in American cities over the past several years have been spurred into action by a media and political system, according to Julio Rosas. Rosas is senior writer at Townhall and author of “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America.” He…


Survey Finds Young People Follow News, but Without Much Joy

NEW YORK—Young people are following the news but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing. Broadly speaking, that’s the conclusion of a study released Wednesday showing 79 percent of young Americans say they get news daily. The survey of young people ages 16 to 40—the older of which are known as millennials and the younger…


British Police Tell Officers to Declare Contact With Journalists Under Anti-Corruption Guidance

UK press organisations are urging police to ditch secret guidance which they say appears to puts journalists on par with criminals and extremists and risks equating the media profession with “wrong-doing and corruption.” Under a hidden section of police counter-corruption guidance called Authorised Professional Practice (APP guidance), journalists have been listed in the “notifiable associations”…


Skyrocketing ‘Woke’ Rhetoric in British Newspapers Has ‘Utterly Transformed’ Media: Study

The media landscape of Britain has been completely transformed by the wholesale import of USA-style identity politics and social justice rhetoric, according to a new report. Data released in a new report on Aug. 2 by the British academic and pollster Matt Goodwin has revealed that “social justice” terms associated with critical theorists have exploded in UK…


Mark McCloskey: ‘The Media Runs Everything’

More than two years ago, Mark McCloskey and his wife took up arms to protect their West End home in St. Louis during the George Floyd protests and riots of 2020. He knows their lives will never return to normal—in part because of the unceasing, mostly negative attention they received from the legacy media. “The…


S&P 500, Nasdaq Open Lower as Social Media Stocks Weigh

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq opened lower on Friday as social media and ad tech firms led declines after dismal quarterly revenues from Twitter and Snap, while an upbeat forecast from American Express boosted the Dow. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 131.02 points, or 0.41 percent, at the open to 32,167.92. The S&P…


What’s the ‘Elephant in the Room’ of the Jan 6. Investigation?

As the congressional body investigating the now infamous 4-hour-long pro-Trump protest wraps up its work, many issues remain unresolved. Indeed, among Democrats, only Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pointed to the central question: what role did law enforcement play in what her colleagues, the media, and Justice Department call an “insurrection”? In this hard-hitting episode of Over the…


Peter Menzies: It’s No Surprise the Public’s Trust in Journalism Is in a Tailspin

Commentary The world of journalism was done a huge favour last week when the Washington Post fired reporter Felicia Sonmez after she waged an online campaign against her own newsroom. The Twitter barrage that led to her termination has been subjected to much commentary and an exquisite monologue by Bill Maher. But Sonmez was hardly…


EXCLUSIVE: ‘Nothing Extreme About Me’: Doug Mastriano on Critics and His Agenda

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who was nominated by voters in May as the Republican nominee for governor, doesn’t give the media much credit for accuracy. “They, and their boosters on the left, are the ones who want to tell us what to think,” Mastriano told The Epoch Times in a candid interview. “They’re the…


Two-Thirds of Canadians on Right of Political Spectrum Think Media Doesn’t Provide Fair Coverage: Survey

Two-thirds of Canadians on the right of the political spectrum say that most stories in the news cover their beliefs unfairly, while less than one-quarter of Canadians on the left of that spectrum say the same, a recent survey found. The survey also found that two-thirds of Canadians on the right say they don’t trust…