Friday, October 23, 2026

Tag: mainstream media

Trump’s escalating assault on the press

Will news organizations be intimidated?

Mistakes in the news are not fake news

And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.

How mind conditioning has created a great silence and passivity in...

The American people need to rise up and say, “Enough is enough and we’re not going to take it anymore!”

Donald Trump’s Ajit (Pai)-prop

President Trump knows how to use the mass media, and social media, to manipulate public opinion and sway voters.

Trump’s FCC has paved the way for a giant, local Fox...

Relaxed media consolidation rules have allowed Sinclair Broadcasting to buy Tribune Media, creating a local news behemoth with a conservative bent.

How broadcast networks covered climate change in 2016

The networks failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial.

There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like...

It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.

Memo to the media: How not to cover the president

What J-School never taught you.

Newt Gingrich: Trump should use the CNN confrontation as an excuse...

Gingrich is not alone in urging Trump to freeze out the press.

Trump’s plan to neuter the white house press corps, and neuter...

We’re in a new era, the reign of King Trump.

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Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo: John Brighenti / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs

Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
An I Voted sticker. Photo: NMGiovannucci / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CMS rescinds nursing home voting guidance and issues new memo on coercion

The July 20 memo replaced 2020 and 2024 guidance. Senators asked the agency in August to reinstate the earlier versions.
The Department of Education headquarters in Washington. Photo: G. Edward Johnson / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Education Department drops appeal of ruling that struck down loan forgiveness employer rule

The rule would have let the education secretary disqualify nonprofit and government employers from Public Service Loan Forgiveness. A federal court vacated it on June 30.
The emergency entrance of Shands Starke Regional Medical Center in Starke, Florida. Photo: Michael Rivera / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws

The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.