Paramount Pushes Back A media outlet targeted by Trump seems to finally be pushing back. Most had predicted that Paramount, the parent company of CBS, would buckle under the pressure of Trump’s lawsuit. It baselessly claimed that the show 60 Minutes editorialized through editing when producing an interview segment with then-Presidential-Candidate Kamala Harris. It was Paramount‘s proposed merger… Read More
US Attorney Aims to Quash Dissent as FCC Makes Probes Interim D.C. US Attorney Edward Martin threatened to prosecute anyone who “target or impede” Elon Musk or Doge, including journalists. Meanwhile the FCC is investigating KCBS in Los Angeles for their coverage of ICE raids. PBS and NPR are also under scrutiny under the auspice of underwriting. These threats come amidst a climate set by… Read More
Facebook Settles Electoral Vote is reporting that Facebook have settled a lawsuit from the Trump Administration for $25 million, because it’s better for business than being on Trump’s list of enemies. From the article: Donald Trump was furious when Mark Zuckerberg suspended Trump’s Facebook account on account of all the lies he was telling. So Trump did… Read More
TikTok unbanning: Accolade and Overreach To recap: The law banning TikTok went into effect yesterday. Just a few hours later, the service was restored, with a gushing message praising our glorious leader-to-be shown to all upon logging in. This is unnerving for two reasons. For one, this law was passed by the Congress, and then upheld by the Supreme Court.… Read More
The TikTok KowTow Challenge Over the past sixteen hours, TikTok has engaged in the ancient Chinese practice of prostration known as 叩頭, usually romanized as kowtow . . . virtually, of course. On background, a law took effect today in the US, banning TikTok. As written, the law would take effect 270 days from the day it is signed… Read More
It looks like we aren’t the only ones to notice this. Political blog Electoral-vote.com has an item up today titled, “Only 4 Days Left for the Media to Preemptively Kowtow to Trump”. Here’s an excerpt: One of the most depressing storylines of the last few months has been the various media outlets falling all over themselves to curry favor with Donald Trump, prior to his re-inauguration.… Read More
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Tries to Keep Pace with Trump As we’ve noted, Trump picks his stances by the direction green pieces of paper are blowing in the wind. As a law banning TikTok is coming to fruition, we should reiterate he was critical of the social media app as a first-term president. He even attempted an executive order to shutdown the platform. But come… Read More
Meta to Drop Fact-Checking Program Because It’s ‘Too Politically Biased’ Variety is reporting that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and others, is dropping fact checking because it is allegedly too politically biased. Of course we’ve all heard the expression that the truth has a liberal bias. I am not sure that’s true so much as conservatism, and especially fascism, has a falsehood bias.… Read More
Jeff Bezos nixes cartoon depicting his pre-emptive obedience Jeff Bezos is not laughing after a cartoon slated for print in his own newspaper depicted him pre-emptively kowtowing to Donald Trump. Bezos owns the Washington Post, so he didn’t take kindly when his own editorial cartoonist depicted him being owned by Donald Trump. The cartoon, by long-time Washington Post editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, shows… Read More