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It’s my holiday tradition to bring tidings of discomfort and sorrow to my colleagues in the news business. One year ago, I described the media apocalypse coming for both digital upstarts and legacy brands. Vice and BuzzFeed had slashed their revenue projections by hundreds of millions of dollars, while The New York Times had announced […]
US President Donald Trump has complained that he receives the wrong kind of special treatment from the mainstream media. Anybody else, he says, would be hailed a hero for pulling 2,000 US troops out of the war in Syria. If anybody but your favorite President, Donald J. Trump, announced that, after decimating ISIS in Syria, […]
Investigative journalist John Pilger has called out the “grotesque absurdity” of those in the Western media who hype the so-called threats from Russia and China to Cold War levels, in an interview with RT’s Going Underground. Pilger told RT’s Afshin Rattansi that he finds it “difficult to believe” how some journalists “should go along, should […]
Two journalists on the bad side of Donald Trump were vindicated this week. One had his White House credentials restored. Another got proof that Uncle Sam wants him behind bars. Guess which one had all the support from the MSM. CNN’s Jim Acosta was kicked out of the White House because the US president didn’t […]
Three of the biggest social media stars (with a combined 70 million followers across platforms) are launching their own video streaming service, reports Variety. Dubbed “Zeus,” the upcoming VOD outlet is the brainchild of Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (who was Vine’s most-followed personality, before the video-looping app went kaput), along with fellow digital celebs Amanda […]
Galore Galore Media says traditional ads just don’t work for Gen Z, the 70 million people born between 1996 and 2010. Instead it focuses on creating content for marketers and connecting them with influencers. “This is how everybody will have to build a media company in the future.” When the digital-media company Galore talks to […]
Virtual reality developers aren’t making as much money as they expected. Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media, creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and […]
Enlarge / Pope Francis holds his homily during his weekly audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis is warning the world’s youth to be wary of the “false image of reality” portrayed in social media and on reality television shows. In a written message the Vatican issued Tuesday, the pontiff cautioned […]
