Tip of the iceberg; USAID media scandal explodes: Politico, BBC, NY Times and more

Tip of the iceberg; USAID media scandal explodes: Politico, BBC, NY Times and more

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2025 Real World News DOGE is the gift that keeps on giving. A curious thing happened at a certain media outlet after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency blew the whistle on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). After the Trump administration froze the agency’s funding, Politico staffers […]

Did Trump go too far? NBC frets; Canada folds

Did Trump go too far? NBC frets; Canada folds

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2025 Real World News After pausing for 30 days the 25% tariff on imports from Canada, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to announce: “Canada has agreed to ensure we have a secure Northern Border, and to finally end the deadly scourge of drugs like Fentanyl […]

Karoline Leavitt meets (and blisters) the press

Karoline Leavitt meets (and blisters) the press

by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2025 Real World News During her first press briefing as White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt proved to be a straight shooter, firing back succinct and sometimes stinging answers to leading questions from the assembled “news professionals.” Leavitt on Tuesday noted: “Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from […]

The Musk ‘salute’: Major media, having lost audience and election, are back with new strategy

The Musk ‘salute’: Major media, having lost audience and election, are back with new strategy

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 21, 2025 Real World News The major media and the Democrat Party have completed their post-mortem on what went wrong with their disastrous 9-year strategy to call Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis. They have come out swinging with a brand new playbook. Okay, we lied. Hours after Donald Trump […]

Washington Post woes mount with arrest of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist

Washington Post woes mount with arrest of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2025 Real World News These are indeed dark days for The Washington Post. Days after it was revealed that the Post has over the past three years lost a huge chunk of its online readership, NPR reported that “more than 400 Washington Post journalists – including some of its most […]

Traffic to Washington Post has plummeted after decades of skewed news-views

Traffic to Washington Post has plummeted after decades of skewed news-views

by WorldTribune Staff, January 14, 2025 Real World News From 2021 to 2024, The Washington Post lost 90 percent of its daily online users, according to a report by Semafor. In January 2021, the WaPo briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily active users. By the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered […]

Media focuses on plights of L.A. celebrities, most of whom can afford to rebuild

Media focuses on plights of L.A. celebrities, most of whom can afford to rebuild

by WorldTribune Staff, January 13, 2025 Real World News During MSNBC’s 2024 election night coverage, Joy Reed boasted: “Queen Latifah never endorses anyone. She came out and endorsed her (Kamala Harris). She had every prominent celebrity voice. She had the Taylor Swift — the Swifties, she had the B-hive.” Those endorsements amounted to diddly-squat as […]

International Fact-Checking Network calls an emergency meeting

International Fact-Checking Network calls an emergency meeting

by WorldTribune Staff, January 8, 2025 Real World News Here’s a fun fact check: There is an organization called the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook and Instagram will no longer use biased third-party “fact-checkers,” the IFCN called an emergency meeting. Business Insider’s Pranav Dixit reported: “The meeting is […]

Zuckerberg: Facebook ditching biased third-party ‘fact-checkers’

Zuckerberg: Facebook ditching biased third-party ‘fact-checkers’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2025 Real World News Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said Facebook will no longer use third-party “fact-checkers” to police content. “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said. “More specifically, here’s […]

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