Questions tagged [media]
Questions about the system and organizations of communication through which information is spread to a large number of people; the coat of a wall consisting chiefly of fibers
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Do these pictures depict David Hogg after two separate crises?
A post circulating on social media - 48,000 shares and counting so far - depicts still images of two news reports, one in California in August 2017 and one in Florida in February 2018 after the ...
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Does the Wall Street Journal change headlines based on location?
I found saw a recent image going around on Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/thebenfergusonshow/photos/a.10150670938916638.382006.95356211637/10154308573296638/?type=3&source=48
The picture shows ...
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Are headlines often not written by the person writing a newspaper article?
Timothy P. Carney writes in the Washington Examiner in the article Let's stop arguing with headlines that the writer didn't write:
If you're not a journalist, here's a trade secret: The person who
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Do the majority of doctors in the USA support hydroxychloroquine use for covid-19?
The Claim
Scott Adams recently made the claim that the majority of doctors in the USA support the use of hydroxychloroquine. Normally a cartoonist's podcast would not be a notable source for a claim, ...
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Is Fox News not classified as a news channel?
This article mentions in passing:
I even pointed out how Fox News wasn’t even a news channel. It changed classification in 2018. That one blew a few minds.
The article references Fox News T&Cs,...
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Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?
The image "Who controls your mind? 2013" below claims that a very large proportion of the US media companies have Presidents, CEOs, Founders, Owners, Vice Presidents and Chairs that are ...
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Did KFC send out a “Kristallnacht” themed promotional deal to customers in Germany?
According to this November 10, 2022 article titled “KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken and cheese promotion” in The Guardian (U.K.) newspaper:
“KFC has apologised for a push notification sent ...
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Has ESPN removed broadcaster Robert Lee from a game, citing the name of a confederate general?
From Fox News ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general's name
In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., ESPN decided to
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Does the owner of the Washington Post have a deal with the CIA worth 600 million dollars?
Jimmy Dore says in this video,
Their owner has a 600 million dollar deal with the CIA. Six hundred million dollars, how much is that Jimmy? That's three times what the Washington Post is fucking ...
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Was the BBC report of the WTC-7 falling before it happened a scripted event?
A video on Youtube, “BBC Building 7 Collapse” is a televised news report from the BBC that states that WTC Tower 7 (aka the "Salomon Bros. Building") had collapsed. An overlay on the video by the ...
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Did journalist Amber Lyon claim that the US Government paid CNN to control content?
One of my conspiracy theorist friends on Facebook recently linked an article claiming that Amber Lyon was fired from CNN for blowing the whistle on the Obama administration paying CNN to not air ...
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Does North Korea propaganda falsely claim 2014 World Cup participation?
This video is being spread on Facebook. It purports to be a North Korean television segment that fraudulently tells the North Koreans that they are participating in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and ...
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Did BBC ignore 50,000 people protesting against austerity?
I saw this on Facebook today:
50,000 people in London protest austerity outside the BBC.
BBC completely ignores them.
Facebook indicates that the meme was posted on June 22, 2014. The ...
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Is the IKEA catalogue being distributed in more prints than the Bible?
According to IKEA
The 2010 edition [of the catalogue] is the world’s third
most printed publication (next to the
Bible and Harry Potter)
But Martin Roth wrote an article in 2002 where he was ...
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Are Fox News viewers more likely to believe misinformation than viewers of other news outlets?
Huffington Post writes:
Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.
The study, conducted by the University of ...
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Were three journalists (Bob Simon, Ned Colt and David Carr) investigating a plausible relation between the CIA and 9/11?
Apparently these three journalists all died within a couple days of each other (Feb. 11 to 12, 2015). The implication of some rumours going around is that these folks were killed because they have ...
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Did CNN use "lightened" photos of Darrell Brooks?
I recently found an image of a tweet shared on Reddit showing CNN using a photo of Darell Brooks (the man who recently drove an SUV into a parade crowd) that makes him look more white. Presumably, ...
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Is 90% of media in the USA controlled by six companies?
(source: wordpress.com)
Are the claims made in this graphic accurate?
the source cited was a book (The Media Monopoly
by Ben H. Bagdikian), but I have no convenient way of obtaining it legally at the ...
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Did Nelson Mandela read The Economist in prison?
An ad for The Economist stated that he read the Economist in prison as a clever way of getting around a rule forbidding him to read the news, until authorities found him out and cancelled the ...
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Did Facebook claim its fact-checks are legally "just opinions"?
Multiple websites and media say:
Facebook claims its 'fact-check' are just protected opinions, according to Facebook's legal team.
However, I have not found any official Facebook sources for this ...
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Does Ferrari cheat at track tests?
The article How Ferrari spins by Chris "Monkey" Harris contains claims that Ferrari has dishonest practices with the press.
How bad has it been? I honestly don't know where to start. Perhaps the ...
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Is participating in a campaign advert a fireable offence for US journalists?
Quoting the left-wing news outlet Vox:
In 2016, Hannity appeared in a bananas pro-Trump campaign ad.
Sean Hannity: ...and of course he's gonna build that wall. He says he's going to have Mexico pay ...
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Is this ad with a German coast guard mistaking "sinking" with "thinking" by Berlitz?
In the following ad, a trainee German coastguard is shown the equipment, and then left to his own devices. He receives a message from a ship which is sinking, saying "Mayday, mayday, we are sinking", ...
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Does science fiction inspire significant amounts of people to pursue STEM careers?
It's a common belief within the science fiction community that sci-fi has motivated a lot of people to pursue careers as scientists and engineers. A brief search finds many anecdotal accounts where ...
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Did CNN alter Joe Rogan's appearance in their coverage regarding his Covid-19 infection in late 2021?
The Blaze reports
Joe Rogan charged CNN of "yellow journalism" on Friday, accusing the network of literally altering the Instagram video he posted last fall in which he announced he had ...
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Did CNN fake footage during the Gulf War purporting a live gas attack?
The YouTube video purports to show then-CNN reporter Charles Jaco rehearse a dramatic "live" report from Saudi Arabia during the 1990 Persian Gulf War from a studio, exaggerating the level of danger.
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Do organised anti-vaccination groups stand to gain anything?
Lately, Ethan Lindenberger has been getting a lot of attention for defying his mother and getting vaccinated against her wishes.
NPR released an article today about how Ethan testified before the ...
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Did Fox News later "ban" a show that aired after 9-11?
This YouTube video, published in 2013, is of an undated Fox News show, showing the first of a four part series of reports by Carl Cameron, alleging that Israeli intelligence had some information about ...
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Did fake news on Facebook influence US elections in 2016?
I've encountered repeated references to fake news on Facebook influencing various elections. Example from a often quoted Facebook critique in Time Magazine:
As a result, when confronted with ...
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Has CNN lost 70% of their audience compared to the beginning of the year, mainly because Trump is no longer president?
An opinion piece in The Hill says:
That's what happens when all-things-Trump are myopically put at the forefront of every offering: You take J.R. Ewing off "Dallas," and there's no more &...
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How many of the facts in an average newspaper article are true?
A while ago there was a study that compared the amount of factual mistakes in Wikipedia to the amount of factual mistakes in Britannica.
Are there similar studies that count the average number of ...
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Did Roger Ailes say "the truth is whatever people will believe" or something substantially similar?
The below image popped up on Facebook apparently alleging that Roger Ailes, president of the Fox News Channel, said:
"The truth" is whatever people will believe.
The peculiar placement of the ...
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Did "Joe the Plumber" perform plumbing work for money between when he left the Air Force and October 2008?
"Joe the Plumber" aka Joe Wurzelbacher gained attention in the 2008 US presidential campaign between Obama and McCain and passed away recently.
In the original discussion with Obama that ...
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Was the United States the equal fifth deadliest country for journalists in 2018?
As reported in the CNN article In a violent year for journalists, United States among the deadliest countries for first time, the group Reporters Without Borders has claimed that the United States is ...
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Did GOP senators say these things about Kavanaugh allegations?
I saw the following screenshot on Twitter:
The picture shows an MSNBC screen with the header "GOP SENATORS ON KAVANAUGH ALLEGATIONS" with pictures and the following quotes:
"I'll listen to the lady, ...
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Is Russian TV airing a "hunger games" like reality series where contestants can rape, kill or be killed?
A popular Youtube channel ScreenJunkies recently launched a spinoff called ScreenJunkies News. (this is to show notability)
On a recent episode titled "Real Life Hunger Games Coming To TV", the host ...
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Is the leaked Aiden Hale "manifesto" authentic?
The 2023 Nashville school shooting was carried out by a transgender man, Aiden Hale.
Conservative political commentator Steven Crowder tweeted some photos of handwritten notes in a notebook, ...
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Was the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” gamed by “trolls” and/or bots?
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was recently released and some professional journalists are attributing a discrepancy between the low Rotten Tomatoes audience score—when compared to the relatively universal ...
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Is Tucker Carlson "accepting money from the Russian government"?
In a Q&A session following a talk on geopolitics, Peter Zeihan (a well-known geopolitical analyst and author) claims that Tucker Carlson is being paid by Russia to push its agenda, as he answers a ...
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Is this a genuine New York Times job ad for Russia Correspondent?
Is this job posting originally from myworkdayjobs.com a genuine New York Times job ad?
International Opportunities
Russia Correspondent
Moscow, Russia
Job Description
Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains ...
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Did BBC change an article title about Israelis shooting dead a Palestinian in a hospital?
In 12 November 2015, Israeli agents disguised as Arabs escorting a woman in labor, raided a hospital in Hebron, West Bank, seized a Palestinian suspected of stabbing and shot dead his cousin. The dead ...
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Were Japanese authorities cracking down on adult themed entertainment in preparation for the 2020 Olympics?
From a Reddit post:
Getting quite a few news about Tokyo cracking down on Lolis, hentai, hentai games, boob sizes, cosplay conventions and recently have their eyes set on an Imouto theme cafe...
What'...
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Are covid vaccines causing additional cardiac events amongst athletes?
In the video "Dozens of pro athletes suddenly experiencing cardiac arrest" on "Truth in Media" the reporter Vince Swan implies that Covid vaccines are causing cardiac events in ...
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Did the Biden campaign ever send out a "decree" to keep Rudy Giuliani off television?
In an 11/2019 interview with Fox News, Rudy Giuliani said in reference to former Vice President Joe Biden:
Sounds like a poor imitation of the Godfather. I mean, this is the guy who sent out a decree ...
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Were the Cologne attacks under-reported by the German media?
According to The Guardian, Tensions rise in Germany over handling of mass sexual assaults in Cologne:
The events have since come to dominate German media, but following a barrage of complaints on ...
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Does the New York Times refuse to publish material that offends religious sensibilities?
Recently, some news organisations (Le Monde linking to this blog in the Washington Post) mention that New York Times, AP, CNN, MSNBC, The Telegraph (and apparently other news groups) have "shunned" ...
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Is "Dabiq" an ISIS-produced magazine?
The magazine Dabiq is generally thought to be a propaganda magazine produced by the proponents on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or IS).
The Islamic State (ISIS) regularly ...
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Did the opposition candidate for PM in Hungary's 2022 election only get 5 minutes on state TV?
Why the Polish Elections Cannot Be Repeated in Orbán's Hungary:
In the 2022 campaign, the opposition candidate for prime minister got a total of only five minutes (!) of airtime on state television.
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Has the Council of Europe called for the banning of British newspapers mentioning when a terrorist is Muslim?
From the Daily Mail: European human rights chiefs order the British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are Muslims in crackdown on freedom of speech
European human rights chiefs have told the ...
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Did the BBC alter an interviewee's words to use the term 'chemical attack'?
In August 2013, the BBC broadcast an episode of Panorama titled "Saving Syria's Children" portraying a chemical attack.
The Russian TV Channel RT claims that the attack was staged by the BBC.
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