News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
David Davis says he's 90% certain Lucy Letby is innocent and will campaign for a retrial. He's right to do so, says Timothy Bradshaw: the case against her is collapsing by the day.
Universities and libraries are hastening the demise of print media – and Covid is still the excuse, says Aditya A. If you ask for a print newspaper they look at you as if there's something wrong with you.
Is Trump Derangement Syndrome real? The answer appears to be "yes". Since Joe Biden took office in 2020, Donald Trump has been mentioned more often in the media than the U.S. president himself.
Do you have the sense that everything is getting gloomier? Two recent studies have found that both news headlines and song lyrics are becoming more negative. Though it's not exactly clear why.
Ian Dunt says "GB News used to be a joke – now it’s dangerous". You know what they say: first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The mainstream media largely ignored the recent Project Veritas Pfizer exposé, yet it has already received tens of millions of views on Twitter. So who is the real mainstream now? asks Nick Dixon.
U.S. alternative media has erupted into a civil war between Steven Crowder and The Daily Wire. Whose side are you on? asks Nick Dixon.
When police arrested a journalist for covering a Just Stop Oil protest they defended it by saying journalists should stop covering the story. It's not hard to see where this chilling logic is leading, says Janet Daley.
Why aren't the mainstream news media looking more closely at the vaccine stories that run contrary to the Government's narrative? One reader wrote to ask a local news organisation and urges others to do the same.
Yesterday, Ukrainian fighters besieged in Mariupol surrendered to Russian forces. But Western media called it an "evacuation". Why are they going around describing things in transparently misleading terms?
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