A new study of Marshall McLuhan portrays a prophetic thinker who predicted the divisive effect of mass media.
Tag: Media
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Karoline Leavitt, Destroyer of Media Hackery
The president’s press secretary knows how to shoot down activist “journalists” pushing left-wing propaganda about immigration enforcement.
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Reiner Comment Hysteria Is Really Just Elite Exasperation
The performative shock of establishment elites to Trump’s comments on the death of Rob Reiner betrays their fear of losing cultural influence.
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Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too
The media’s sudden interest in Joe Biden’s immigration failure is too little, too late.
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The Commercial Cultural Revolution Is Upon Us
If you’ve noticed that commercial representation of whites and heterosexual couples has significantly decreased in recent years, at least as compared to their actual numbers in the population, you’re not alone.
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Don’t Fall Into the Issue-Legitimacy Trap
The media and the elites they service want to trap Americans into believing that their legitimate concerns are “fringe issues.”
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Word Tricks of the Democrat Media Complex
The vigilance required to parse one’s way through the Democrat Media Complex drives many Americans to seek better alternatives.
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The Cowardice of Modern Journalism
More evidence of the diminished standards and dishonorable behavior of America’s fourth estate.
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The End of the American Stasi
The days of feeling cowed by a humorless and censorious elite class of journalists and pundits are over.
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How the Media Elite Silences the Majority
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence theory still explains a lot about how our media shape narratives and cows opposition.
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The Greatest Psy-Op in the History of American Electoral Politics
The ultimate battle between corporate and social media has been a long time coming. The outcome will decide much more than the 2024 election.
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USA Today’s Shoddy Statistical Analysis and Even Shoddier Morality
In reporting an infant mortality increase in Texas in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the newspaper suggests it would have been better had these children never been born.
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Reflecting American Dreams and American Nightmares
Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd” (1957) takes the audience along for a ride that ends up in front of a mirror.
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Press Cowards’ Hypocritical Lament Over Media’s Lack of ‘Balls’ and ‘Swagger’
Mainstream press critics whine about the demise of journalism’s good ole days, while carefully avoiding writing anything that would offend their paymasters.
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Indelible in the Hippocampus Is the Perjury
Christine Blasey Ford’s Kavanaugh hoax put both the justice and Mark Judge through the mill. We owe Judge a chance to try to rebuild his life.
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Why Online News Isn’t Saving Journalism
Online media was never on a secure footing, dependent as it was not just on advertising—which is true for almost all media—but on the whims of Big Tech, which has its own growth worries.
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Calls for a New Constitutional Convention are Beside the Point
Leftist control of all our power structures, not defects in our charter, are at the heart of our current woes. Application of muscle from the top should be our top priority in trying to restore an American republic.
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Dilbert’s Tips for Separating Fact from Propaganda
Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, dedicates much of his daily podcast to educating listeners about the way to consume the news skeptically. Americans should take heed.
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The Voice That Won’t Be Silenced
Tucker Carlson's voice is too important to silence because he speaks for so many people.
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Tucker Carlson and the Struggle for Civilizational Sanity
Tucker Carlson, please come back soon.
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Nick Kristof’s Shamhill Clown Show
Nick Kristof will not be on the Oregon ballot in November. Even in liberal Oregon, you can't identify as a state resident unless you actually are one.