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On Monday, Goucher College journalism professor and longtime Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik accused President Donald Trump of using a dictator tactic — telling so many lies as to exhaust the free press into silence. "He says something that’s really offensive about immigrants, and then Tucker Carlson says immigration makes us a dirtier country," Zurawik said. "That is really destructive to American life." He urged journalists to fight back. "We have to denounce it, but every time we do that, every time we chase that down, he is setting the agenda for what we cover, and none of us,...

"Its no longer called a protest. All those who were there were complicit in this" French President Emmanuel Macron Speaks At Interior Ministry Meeting Late Saturday 3/16/2019 French President Emmanuel Macron was not in Paris durin the protests Saturday. He returned from the mountains for a late night crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry. BFM-TV headlines the notion that Macron wishes 'strong decisions' be made in response to the Paris protests. The official government estimate is that 32,200 Yellow Vests protested nationwide Saturday with 10-thousand in Paris. But in Paris the Yellow Vests included the "black blocs" with police waiting...

"This is now beyond national humiliation" United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Leader Gerard Batten On Twitter 3/11/2019 Theresa May is putting on a show with a last minute trip to Strasbourg to beg for some crumbs from the table of the European Union hierarchy. She appears to be trying to get a sellout to the EU that she can sell as something meaningful. "Brexit: 'Legally binding' changes to EU deal agreed" BBC News Headline 1150 pm London Time 3/11/2019 "This is all words and twisted meanings...Nothing has changed....Reject....Reject.....Reject" Nigel Farage Twitter 3/11/2019 The British regime plans to try Tommy Robinson...

"In reality of course 'major sections of the wall' have not been built" That response from the "Washington Watcher" post of the anti-mass immigration "VDARE" website Sunday night following President Trump's attack on commentator Ann Coulter via Twitter Saturday evening when he called Coulter a: "Wacky Nut Job" and asserted: "I am winning on the Border. Major sections of Wall are being built....".... 157 are dead from more than 30 nations the passengers and crew of an Ethiopian airline that crashed after takeoff from the Addis Ababa Airport..... As of Sunday night, 21 people are reported to have died at...

"It's normal that the mobilization is less strong. It's raining, it's bad, people have the right to stay with family. There will be peaks and drops but it will continue" Yellow Vests Andre Liboune Speaks In Bordeaux 3/9/2019 A rainy day in many parts of France today for Act 17-Week 17 of the Yellow Vests protests. The government says there were 300 Yellow Vests protesting in Paris today. Extremists dressed in black infiltrated the protest and threw objects at police at around 6 pm. Water cannon employed by police in response.... Its been said by observers including France's leading opposition...

The publisher of USA Today has received a $1.36 billion takeover bid from a media group with a history of taking over struggling newspapers and slashing costs. MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media, said in a letter to Gannett Co. Monday that its leadership team has failed to show that it can run the company effectively. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that the hedge-fund backed MNG has built up a 7.5 percent stake in Gannett, and that it has been rebuffed repeatedly by the company about a sale. Gannett said Monday it received the letter,...

USA Today isn't known for its blistering opinion pieces. Which makes the one the paper's editorial board just published on President Donald Trump all the more savage.

Gannett on Tuesday walked away from its attempted takeover of Tronc, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other major dailies. USA Today publisher Gannett’s target was elusive from the beginning, with a publicly contentious back-and-forth between the two companies. Tronc, formerly known as Tribune Publishing, rejected at least two bids from Gannett because it said it preferred to go it alone, focusing on tech-driven initiatives involving artificial intelligence and global expansion in entertainment news and video. Shares of Tronc Inc. plunged 20 percent in early trading. …

USA Today publisher Gannett, suffering from the ongoing print-ad declines that have hurt the broader newspaper industry, is cutting jobs as it reported a loss in its latest quarter. The company said it is cutting 2 percent of its staff. Gannett had nearly 19,000 employees at the end of 2015, suggesting more than 300 jobs were lost. Gannett spokeswoman Amber Allman did not reply to a question asking how many employees are losing their jobs. …

Link only as the Democrat controlled USA Today does not allow Free Republic to use their stories. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/23/hillary-clinton-foundation-donna-shalala-editorials-debates/89231806/ Note the footnote to the story

ITHACA NY--A Gannett-owned Ithaca newspaper will refuse to participate in a gubernatorial debate in that city, after the event's organizers rejected its questions including one that seemed to advance 9/11 conspiracy theories.According to the Ithaca Journal, the rejected questions for the debate included the following: Thousands of New Yorkers continue to suffer from the 2001 terror attacks in NYC. Families and surviving victims have sought additional investigations on the attack that were never addressed by the 9/11 Commission Report. Do you accept the findings of that Commission, or are there areas of that investigation that still leave you with unanswered...

Another brutal day for journalism.Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to buy the chain.The cuts were not minor.At the Indianapolis Star, three journalists were laid off, including well-known columnist Tim Swarens. At the Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel, University of Tennessee women’s basketball reporter Dan Fleser is out after more than 30 years in sports. The Tennessean cut three positions, including high school sports reporter Michael Murphy. Traci Bauer, executive editor of LoHud (New York), was let go.Six were laid...

Another brutal day for journalism. Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to buy the chain. The cuts were not minor

A list of household names on the Arizona Daily Star staff must soon decide if they'll stay on the job — the newspaper's corporate owners have offered buyouts for older workers, with the veiled threat of potential layoffs pending if not enough staffers accept. At least a dozen journalists have been given 45 days to decide if they'll accept six months of salary to walk away from their jobs as part of a cost-cutting effort by Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based media chain that runs Tucson's daily newspaper.

Speaking at a “Girls Who Code” event in New York City, self-identified democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back against critics of her Green New Deal resolution. “I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation,” the New York Democratic congresswoman said Friday to moderator Reshma Saujani, the CEO of Girls Who Code. “Why? Because no one else has even tried. Because no one else has even tried.” Ocasio-Cortez claimed that — regardless of success — the “power” goes to the individual who tries. “So people are like, ‘Oh it’s unrealistic. Oh it’s...

Will liberal outlets like Politifact fact check the geography-challenged Bernie Sanders? Socialists like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aren't big on math. It just gets in the way of setting utopian, unachievable goals. Take Sanders today. At the very beginning of his formal announcement video, Sanders set this goal: "an unprecedented, grassroots campaign of one million active volunteers in every state in our country."Um, just a little problem there, Bernie. The population of your own state of Vermont is only 627,000. How can you possibly not know that? And there are five other states with populations under one million. So, yeah,...

<p>It was a cold and rainy day in much of France today but protests continued in Paris and nationwide.</p> <p>The Ministry of the Interior released a national estimate of 51,400 protesters just after 7 pm in the evening. In some local communities no estimates from the police there. They say figures are "centralized" in Paris.</p>

Amazon magnate, the world's richest man and owner of "The Washington Post", Jeff Bezos, says he's being blackmailed by the "National Enquirer", a media outlet friendly to President Trump...... The Justice Department filing its opening brief in the appeal of last year's dismissal of charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another key defendant in the Bunkerville Standoff case...... France has pulled its ambassador out of Italy for consultations two days after the leader of one of Italy's governing parties met Yellow Vests protesters in Paris.... After all the conflict or at least it appeared to...

"Today with Alessandro Di Battista we made a leap in France and we met the leader of the Yellow Waistcoats Christophe Chalencon and the candidates of the list RIC....." Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Five Star Movement Leader Luigi Di Maio Tweet 2/5/2019 The leadership of one of Italy's ruling parties was in Paris Tuesday meeting with Yellow Vests leadership and candidates running on a "Yellow Vests" list in this May's elections to the European Parliament.....

In the early 1990’s, the famous biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an essay entitled Viruses of the Mind. In this essay, Dawkins describes religion as a mind virus that spreads from human to human for the sake of its own survival. Think whatever you want about Dawkins or his theories on religion. I personally think religion has become much less of a threat than political ideology since The Enlightenment period, which is why I will attempt to apply his mind virus theory to what I consider the biggest ideological threat to American values, socialism. Here are a few symptoms that Dawkins...