Reading Time: 5 minutes When I left Canada in 2018, I had a few reasons for my choice. One was economic. Another was no longer wishing to be part of the culture. Both are complicated, because plenty of people are trapped in economic hellscapes and cannot stand their culture, so what made me different? It’s the worst timeline for […]
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Social Media Vs Mainstream Media: There is No “Vs”, the Lines Are Blurred
Reading Time: 2 minutes The long and the short of it: they are both the same, only separated (in the UK at least) by regulation. “News organisations” is another term for “information source”, which is a far more nebulous and in some sense accurate term. The modern person gets their information (some of which could be arbitrarily labelled “news”) […]
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Genuinely Good News for Fans of Truth
Reading Time: 2 minutes With a couple of bars of holiday WiFi, here’s one I almost finished previously… This is great news. Yes, admittedly, I love the Guardian, but I love it precisely because I see it as more accurate than any other UK media News source. This is particularly true now that the Telegraph and Times appear to […]
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Right-Wing Bias in the MSM? Reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian Problem
Reading Time: < 1 minute We so often hear about left-wing bias of the mainstream media from those on the right. But there have been very salient examples of right-wing, imperialistic bias from these same sources. And people are calling them out on air. These examples are brilliant, as are the analyses from Novara Media. Honestly, watch this last video […]
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What Is Wrong with the Left?: The Mechanisms of Messaging
Reading Time: 12 minutes I was asked the other day “what is wrong with the left?” or “where has the left gone wrong?” This is presumably in the context of the UK since this is quite a different political environment to the US, although there are obvious similarities. Let me answer this question in the context of previous general […]
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Jim Acosta Rips into FOX Disinformation
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is so necessary. Also, full of winning puns. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my awesome ATP merchandise! Please… It justifies me continuing to do this!
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In Defence of BBC News. Sort of.
Reading Time: 11 minutes This piece is not to have some kneejerk defence of the BBC because I am of a liberal persuasion. I am also not a media and communications expert. This is my armchair appraisal of the BBC, and most pertinently, its news programming. My appreciation for the BBC came when I first watched the superb award-winning […]
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Media Bias and More Partisan News for the UK
Reading Time: 2 minutes Not one, but two. “Star hosts gear up as Britain braces for partisan TV news”, the headline reads. This is pretty dismal news, in my opinion. We have GB News, an anti-BBC Brexiteer-funded new news channel joined by another Murdoch owned news offering, another channel. Partisan news, but only for the right. Who represents the […]
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FOX News: Frankenstein’s Monster Eats Its Maker
Reading Time: 6 minutes Trump has effectively been laughed out of court some 39 times and counting, with recounts turning up 87 extra votes for Biden in Wisconsin at the cost of $3 million. It’s all terribly embarrassing. The real lawyers knew there wasn’t a case to be had, they ran off, and so we were left with clowns. […]
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Murdoch Hack Owned by Right-Wing Australian Ex-PM on Climate Change
Reading Time: 2 minutes This was unexpected but, my, was it brilliant to watch. There are two things to consider here: climate science denial and its connection to media sources that peddle the myths for their own ends the power of the Murdoch empire in dictating political outcomes (most obviously in Australia and the UK, but also the US) […]