Media
“The 15:17 to Paris” to star heroes
Chief Tango sends us a link to Variety which reports that Clint Eastwood is casting the real life heroes, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone, of the attack on passengers of that particular train ride from Amsterdam to Paris two years ago; The casting move is similar to Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” which featured an […]
CNN blackmails Reddit user
The Washington Times reports that CNN has threatened to publicly reveal the identity of the Reddit user who created the video he created last week of President Trump beating up the CNN logo; Andrew Kaczynski, senior editor of CNN’s KFile, discovered the identity of the Reddit user who made a short video of President Trump […]
City of Ghosts
The folks at Amazon Studios and IFC Films asked me to tell you about their documentary “City of Ghosts” which is going to be released on July 7th in New York City, expanding the release on July 14th. Captivating in its immediacy, City of Ghosts follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” – […]
Toronto Star: Sniper shot is no cause to celebrate
Losing sight of the whole purpose of a national military organization, the editorial staff of the Toronto Star chastises their prime minister, Justin Trudeau, for “celebrating” the more than 2 mile shot accomplished by a Canadian sniper in the war against ISIS which we talked about last week. However heinous we may find members of […]
The media’s obsession with deviance
Someone sent us this story from the Miami Herald which found space in it’s fish wrap to answer the public’s question that it never asked. A first time visiting reporter to Guantanamo asked a newly-posted Navy doctor if he’d perform gender reassignment surgery on a Guantanamo detainee. “Anything that a detainee requests from a medical […]
Reality Leigh Winner arrested by the FBI
The Department of Justice reports that the FBI arrested 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner (with the name of a race horse) at her home on Saturday near Augusta, Georgia for passing classified information to the media from her workstation at the NSA. Winner is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government agency […]
Will VA chief be voice of reason on climate change and medical marijuana in Trump administration?
We all know how concerned the Washington Post is about the healthcare of veterans. That’s why they asked this question in their pages today; Will VA chief be voice of reason on climate change and medical marijuana in Trump administration? That’s veterans’ biggest concern these days. Not that the VA is largely mismanaged, or that […]
Fake News? Yep.
This just seemed apropos, given the article Jonn just published. Poll: Majority of Americans Think Mainstream Media Publishes ‘Fake News’ The results were from the most recent Harvard-Harris poll. It’s not just Republicans who think the media “pulls things out of it’s (ear)” these days, either. A majority of both political independents and Democrats also […]
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