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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Does the Middle East Institute partner with Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco?
This newsbud article claims:
Lister was formerly a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in
Qatar and is now a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based
Middle East Institute, which ...
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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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Did Vince Foster take his own life? [closed]
The website TruthOrFiction writes:
Vince Foster was Deputy White House Counsel and the Clinton’s lawyer. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. Three investigations into Foster’s ...
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Is this photo of a LGBT protest march digitally faked?
I saw this in a Spanish forum, which isn't exactly the most reliable source..
Was this picture of a LGBT protest march digitally faked?
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Are American media controlled mostly by Jews? (2015 edition) [duplicate]
There is a question on this site, Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?, which looks at an infographic titled "Who Controls Your Mind? 2013" and shows:
The methodology of the ...
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Has there ever been a company that has called their paperboys "Media Distribution Officers"?
According to The Economist's article "Too Many Chiefs", job title inflation is on the rise:
America's International Association of Administrative Professionals—formerly the National Secretaries ...
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Did Sky TG24 broadcast video misattributed to be the 2016 Brussels attack?
According to AnaHera.news (in Italian), Sky TG24 broadcast videos purportedly of the airport and metro attacks in Brussels, but were actually footage of the 24 January 2011 attack in Moscow.
The ...
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Did Frances Coppola tweet about immigration opponents organising the Cologne sex crimes?
Did Frances Coppola, a senior journalist at Forbes, post the following tweet?
@shoerster I bet they did. I suspect anti-immigration people of organising the Cologne
sex crimes. Fastest way of ...
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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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Was Mother Teresa a fanatic and a fraud? [closed]
According to this article, Mother Teresa did much more harm than good and was opposed to helping the poor, the ills and raped women.
Is it true that Mother Teresa didn't do much to help those in ...
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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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Is the cause for the Berkeley Boom "unknown"? [closed]
Articles about the unsolved mystery of the "Berkeley Boom" claim that the loud noises that can be heard throughout Berkeley, California, and in neighbouring cities, might be caused by fireworks, cops, ...
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Does media coverage of mass shootings leads to more mass shootings the same week?
In the end of this video, Dr. Park Dietz says:
Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.
Is this true?
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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Does 51% of CNBC climate coverage deny that climate change is caused by man-made pollution?
Here is the source of the claim:
Mediamatter for America climate statistics graph
Tweeted, and re-tweeted by Al Gore
The source that the image refers to: REPORT: CNBC's Climate Denial Is Bad For ...
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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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Was time travel achieved and then hidden from the public? [closed]
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Without getting in too much details and going off-topic, I just want to say I personally find that the idea of time travel is ridiculous, at least in the current frame of physics and our ...
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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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Do the Sage Journals use a pay-for-publication model (such as Bentham Open)?
I prefer to use peer reviewed journals of the highest integrity as the sources of what I would consider a good answer on this site. While perusing the JREF Forums, I was struck by a question asked ...
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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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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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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 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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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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