5 Things Everyone's Getting Wrong About Sinclair Broadcast Group
The company that brought you that wince-inducing "fake news" promo is not a "monopoly," and cracking down on it will not defend the free press.
The company that brought you that wince-inducing "fake news" promo is not a "monopoly," and cracking down on it will not defend the free press.
Researchers cast more doubt on the "filter bubble" narrative.
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If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
From Ron Johnson to Fox News and beyond, Team Red has replaced skeptical scrutiny of Obama-era executive branch activity with dimwitted counterpunching for Trump.
Fake news just took a giant step forward. Here's why that's good news.
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"I'm just sort of accidental collateral damage to a larger thing that's going on."
Politicians cast attacks on them as attacks on democracy. How self-serving.
Economy advances while administrative state recedes; lefty commentators hardest hit.
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Of course not. But don't tell The New Yorker that.
Conversations with Morgan Spurlock, Al Sharpton, Bill Schulz, and more
Jihadists would be no threat to Americans who were left to mind their own business.
Due to lack of information from death certificates, only half are properly recorded.
"Setting aside the fact that the FCC doesn't license cable channels," Ajit Pai said last month, "these demands are fundamentally at odds with our legal and cultural traditions."
"A reader could plausibly conclude that many or all fraternity members participated in alleged gang rape."
Obama was wrong to act alone, but these peaceful, educated, assimilated immigrants should be an easy sell.
SAG-AFTRA and the State of California claim websites like IMDb have a proactive duty to help actors hide their ages from casting directors.
The report's removal from the White House website was totally standard operating procedure.
Any authority to shut down speech will be turned toward the press eventually.
The Specialists co-host: "'I want to kill you' isn't a threat; I guess that's just what they want to do. I'll defend that as free speech."
If government censorship is the fear, then we must protect private free association.
Remy has a few helpful tips for safely watching large orange balls of gas.
Why are Boone County Schools bureaucrats trying to whitewash the Charlottesville murder suspect's history?
Justice Department announces tripling of investigations.
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When the press tilts in favor of higher taxes and more regulation, democracy is indeed distorted.
A British spy. An Arizona senator. And one inflammatory dossier on Donald Trump. The connection between them is starting to unravel...
A Senate report on Trump administration leaks overstates national security risks.
Film favors martyrdom over careful analysis.
Contrary to what The New York Times claims, the outcry over EpiPen prices has made them lower.
But it revealed a split between America's actual foreign policy and Americans' self-image.
The Times news columns have been openly campaigning against Trump's tax cuts from the moment they were rolled out.
From the discussion, you would never know the money in question actually belongs to particular individuals, who obtained it through voluntary exchange or gift.
And the news media are going along with it.
When the president reprised his you're-fired shtick last night, this wasn't the outcome he expected.
Government censorship always wears the mask of 'public interest,' and this will be no different.