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If you’ve felt like there is something REALLY off with the NY Times recently (their joke of a Times/Siena “poll” they published within the last 48 hours being the most recent example), well, you’re not alone. Others see it too and it might be worse...
by Methinks They Lie
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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This judge keeps ruling in Trump’s favor….over and over. She is very very in his corner. Jack Smith Could Seek to Remove Aileen Cannon for Granting Trump's Request www.msn.com/… There is speculation over whether prosecutors in Donald Trump's classified...
by Vetwife
179 comments
on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 04:26 PM PST
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Back in November, I wrote my second diary here about the war in Palestine and Israel. The intention of the diary was to question the difference between qualitative and quantitative DK coverage of the Russo-Ukraine War to that here of the latest phase...
by Philip Munger
77 comments
on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 09:34 PM PST
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UPDATED: The commenters demonstrate my point. It’s worth reading what they say. I come to DailyKos to avoid the noise of social media and mainstream news. What a disappointment to read Kerry’s recent post regarding her “lesson” from the latest...
by passionateprogressive2
28 comments
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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The main story on NBC Nightly News concerned the first hostage release in the Israel/Gaza war. About 10 minutes into the broadcast, they ran three stories, all involving heightened mall security on Black Friday. The first story was about a...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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There’s no “liberal media.” OK, there is, but you have to go out of your way to find it. Daily Kos, for example. And Mother Jones. And Charlie Pierce in Esquire. And maybe some of the prime-time hosts on MSNBC (when they’re not platforming the Michael...
by GrafZeppelin127
72 comments
on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 02:13 PM PST
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Fox News is one of the most widely watched news channel in the United States, with over 2.2 million prime time viewers in February, 2023. During that February, however, viewers between the ages of 25 to 54 only accounted for 299 thousand of those...
by frankfaiola
15 comments
on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 11:21 AM PDT
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There are those who claim that there’s a fundamental difference between the news division and the opinion side at Fox. Of course, that’s about as true as, well, just about anything The Man Who Lost An Election And Tried To Steal It has said since he...
by Ian Reifowitz
7 comments
on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Queen Nzinga � Mbande � 1583–1663 (also spelled � Njinga ), was a monarch of the Mbundu people. Mbande was a resilient leader who fought the � Portuguese’s e xpanding � slave � trade in ...
by Black Kos
105 comments
on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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And what’s missing from your med recs can hurt you, too. Case study: a non-mainstream Medicaid patient with years of extensive musculoskeletal damage (among other ills), fully imaged and documented, including the surgeries involved. She struggles for...
by mettle fatigue
40 comments
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 02:55 PM PDT
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We got new inflation data Tuesday for the U.S., and the news is damn good. The New York Times’ main article on the subject make that clear. The headline reads: “Inflation Rate Cools as Fed Plots Next Interest Rate Move.” Over on the Business section...
by Ian Reifowitz
78 comments
on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 01:44 PM PDT
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Last week, I was flipping through my YouTube news feed and saw a thumbnail for a story from 10 Tampa Bay, a Fox affiliate. It was a “photo” of a Black man with a stern mouth and heavy beard, dark skinned, with a pullover cap. I could tell right away...
by novapsyche
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on Mon May 01, 2023 at 10:09 AM PDT
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It’s so weird how the major networks frame the news. The case in point is from Nora O’Donnell’s evening show on CBS. This was the day Biden announced his run for re-election. The only issue the CBS coverage raised was Biden’s age. An interviewer on the...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 11:31 AM PDT
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Australian Press Council condemns News Corp’s malicious lies and attacks against minorities – again. Australia’s official media watchdog has found three quarters of complaints upheld for violations of media ethical principles in the last two years were against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. That’s according to an article published in Independent...
by Alan Austin
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on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 06:03 AM PDT
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Some random musings on so-called artificial intelligence. I do not believe that we will get to a real artificial intelligence anytime soon, and that failure is likely for the best. First, the general consensus seems to be that to achieve a general AI,...
by angryea
101 comments
on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 06:20 AM PST
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Calling it “analysis” does not mean it will actually analyze anything. Often times, these will turn into Op-Ed pieces disguised as “digging in”, as it were. (Op-Ed, by the way, is opposing editorial, not opinion editorial.) Recently, CNN has been...
by Sarkazein
61 comments
on Wed Feb 08, 2023 at 09:05 PM PST
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Now that the midterm elections are over, the Internet, pollsters and mainstream pundits are all agog. They are asking themselves endlessly, “How did we get it so wrong? How did the ‘red wave’ that we all knew was coming not materialize?” I must confess...
by dratler
72 comments
on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 10:13 PM PST
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Yet another sketch of a Black man identified by a police department as a suspect in a violent crime went viral. This time, it wasn’t even a sketch based on a witness’ memory. In the horrific sexual assault case being investigated by the Edmonton Police...
by Lauren Sue
39 comments
on Thu Oct 06, 2022 at 04:33 PM PDT
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I understand that CNN has a new boss who wants to make the cable network “non-partisan”. The problem is, CNN was already non-partisan. Now, they have to pretend that both sides of the aisle are equal in order to appear non-partisan.
by Perlinator
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 08:09 PM PDT
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Tuesday marked the final day of primaries for 2022. The next stop for our democracy is November elections. The three final primaries were held in Delaware, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The results for Republican leadership were not particularly...
by Walter Einenkel
147 comments
on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 10:15 AM PDT
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