An 18-year-old trans woman has been identified by police as the suspected shooter responsible for nine deaths in the small Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge. The tragedy has sparked an alarming wave of anti-trans rhetoric, with influential right-wing figures using it to spread dangerous misinformation on the prevalence of trans-perpetrated violence. "This will just get uglier now for us and for our community as a whole, when our attention should be on the care of these victims and to support communities,"
The hearing concerned Farwell's request to move his trial to Rhode Island. He and his lawyers contend that there has been "one-sided, biased media coverage" of the case in the Boston area, leading to the "widespread public misbelief" that Farwell groomed Birchmore, had sex with her when she was a minor, and ultimately killed her, according to court documents filed in November.
JIM ACOSTA: Trump does have, he's had propaganda outlets work on his behalf for some time, but we've seen even among the major networks, CBS for example, which has been taken over by some pretty far right individuals and the Ellisons and Barry Weiss and so on. I mean, they had their anchor on the other night, sort of both-sidesing what took place on January 6th. I wanna play this and just get your take on that.
The media has no credibility, because for four years they deliberately covered up for a president that was brain dead, Gutfeld said. He then referenced the Inverse Cramer trend online, where investors bet against stock picks made by CNBC analyst Jim Cramer. "It's kind of like, you don't take financial advice from financial advice from Jim Cramer," Gutfeld said. He then started to say You don't before Johnson jumped in and completed the sentence with Take fitness advice from Whoopi Goldberg.
During the Kimmel controversy, Carr said he was trying "to empower local TV stations to serve the needs of the local communities." The FCC subsequently opened a proceeding titled, "Empowering Local Broadcast TV Stations to Meet Their Public Interest Obligations: Exploring Market Dynamics Between National Programmers and Their Affiliates." The FCC invited public comments on whether to adopt regulations "in light of the changes in the broadcast market that have led to anticompetitive leverage and behavior by large networks."
Team Murdoch's approach has several frontws: Find as many angry drivers as possible, sprinkle in some business owners to complain (without evidence) about toll cutting into their bottom lines or getting passed on to customers, top it all off with some extremely bad data analysis - then use it all to put pressure on Gov. Hochul, who has demonstrated a willingness to make policy decisions based on the paper's fact-averse campaigns against the toll.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the British public broadcaster, the BBC, for $1bn in the latest of a series of actions he is taking against major news outlets. Trump's lawyers said the BBC violated Florida defamation law by editing a video clip in a 2024 Panorama documentary aired just one week before the November presidential election to give the impression that he had actively encouraged his supporters to riot at Capitol Hill in January 2021 after he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.
Terry Moran's a moron, O'Reilly declared as Bush brought up how aggressively President Donald Trump targets his political enemies. Really? He was so polite to the president, Bush said. I don't care what he was. He masqueraded as a reporter. This is what bothers me about guys like Moran. He masqueraded. He told everybody at ABC, I'm a reporter. That's my job. I'll bring you facts. Well, look at him now. He's a raving leftist, O'Reilly argued.
They put out something, Say today, the costs are up,' the president continued. They feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS, and NBC, and a lot of other, CNN et etc. It's like a standard I'll never forget they used a word like manufactured.' Do you remember the word manufactured? It's a manufactured economy.' Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in, Manufactured.' They do exactly what they say.
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The memo by former BBC adviser Michael Prescott accused the outlet of "serious and systemic" bias over a range of issues, including coverage of the war in Gaza. Driving the news: Davie said in his resignation letter the decision to step down from the BBC's top role after five years was "entirely" his and that overall, the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility."
