Poll: Confidence in press and all institutions (except military) hits rock bottom

Poll: Confidence in press and all institutions (except military) hits rock bottom

by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2016 The American press is approaching Congress when it comes to lack of public confidence. A Gallup survey found that “just 20 percent have confidence in newspapers, a 10-point drop in 10 years. TV news saw an identical 10-point drop, from 31 percent to 21 percent,” according to a report […]

The rest of the story: Why Trump is right about Judge Gonzalo Curiel

The rest of the story: Why Trump is right about Judge Gonzalo Curiel

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The establishment is now looking to finish off Donald Trump. The presumptive Republican nominee is under intense criticism for his comments about the federal judge presiding over the Trump University class-action lawsuit. Our political and media elites are trying to turn this into Trump’s version of Mitt Romney’s infamous […]

The real Muhammad Ali versus the mass media mythology

The real Muhammad Ali versus the mass media mythology

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The establishment media is painting a false picture of Muhammad Ali. The late boxing champion is being portrayed as “The Greatest.” He is supposedly the finest athlete, boxer and — maybe even — American of the 20th century. Media outlets have not only been celebrating his life and numerous […]

Clinton’s San Diego speech ignores this: She is an oligarch and a crook whose foreign policy opened the gates of hell

Clinton’s San Diego speech ignores this: She is an oligarch and a crook whose foreign policy opened the gates of hell

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Hillary Clinton claims Donald Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be America’s commander-in-chief. “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes,” she said in a major foreign policy speech in San Diego, arguing that the Republican presumptive nominee could start a war simply because somebody “got under […]

Group provided major funds to NPR to sell Iran deal to wary public

Group provided major funds to NPR to sell Iran deal to wary public

by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2016 A group the White House said played a “critical role” in securing the Iran nuclear deal doled out large amounts of cash to National Public Radio (NPR) and Jewish lobby J Street to sell the deal to a wary public. The Ploughshares Fund group gave National Public Radio $100,000 […]

‘El Chapo’s new digs: Rating by human rights group is lowest of all Mexican prisons

‘El Chapo’s new digs: Rating by human rights group is lowest of all Mexican prisons

Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall, MexiData.info The residence of Mexican narco baron Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzman has changed again, from the Altiplano prison in Central Mexico to Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. And there may be a future move north of the border for Guzman, as a judge has approved […]

WorldTribune’s new (mobile-friendly) look

WorldTribune’s new (mobile-friendly) look

Special to WorldTribune.com WorldTribune has completed the initial stage of reformatting its main news sections for mobile phones and tablets. The editors at WorldTribune sincerely hope readers like the changes and would love to hear from readers about the changes. The format should be basically familiar to all regular readers. The main difference is that […]

‘Click farms’: China’s propaganda hubs proliferate Facebook likes

‘Click farms’: China’s propaganda hubs proliferate Facebook likes

Special to WorldTribune.com Inside China, EastAsiaIntel.com While China’s 700 million netizens are blocked from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) English-language propaganda machine is harvesting social media fans around the world. Following top-down orders from president Xi Jinping to “tell China’s story” to the world, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are now rife […]

How Facebook and big media control the message

How Facebook and big media control the message

Special to WorldTribune.com Spoiler alert: Actually, it’s no secret that Facebook makes clear to mostly left-leaning publishers what it wants on its mostly left-leaning News Feed. Peter Kafka, writing for recode.com, presented the “real Facebook media influence story.” Related: Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values, May 9, 2016 The post included […]

Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values

Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values

Special to WorldTribune.com Facebook systematically blacklisted news articles cast conservative politicians and conservative values in a positive light, former workers for the social media giant admitted. News stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section were suppressed. A former “news curator” on the “trending” section, said workers prevented stories […]