The Insurrection at the Capitol Challenged How US Media Frames Unrest and Shapes Public Opinion
An illustration of how media framing manipulates viewer reactions.
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MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
How could a rabble occupy the Capitol despite months of fulminations about a Trump coup and a rally date announced well in advance?
Read more...Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Read more...UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Read more...Further Discussion of the Red Flags in the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
Responding to critics of a post on the Pfizer vaccine paper and editorial.
Read more...Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
Why is US journalism in the crapper?
Read more...Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.
Read more...Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation
How did Martin Luther’s message spread so quickly?
Read more...The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...The Language of Slavery
A language directive via the New York Times! Will it take hold?
Read more...Whining Pundits
Quelle surprise! Some pundits are trying to distance themselves from their pre-election calls.
Read more...Americans Didn’t Vote for Change. For Many, It Wasn’t on the Ballot
Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...How Twitter Affected the 2016 Presidential Election
Quelle surprise! Twitter helped Clinton in 2016. So why the hysterical censorship in 2020?
Read more...Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept Over Censorship of Article on Hunter and Joe Biden
Glenn Greenwald has resigned from the Intercept over an effort to gut a piece on the Bidens, in an apparent violation of his contract.
Read more...Notes on a World Without Trump
So what might Trump do if he loses?
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