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The BBC’s Trump Edit Deserves Scrutiny—Whatever Happens in Court
A deposition deadline is no verdict on the BBC’s journalism. The broadcaster’s editing and Trump’s legal obligations deserve separate, consistent scrutiny.
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The Media desk follows how newsrooms, entertainment companies and online platforms decide which stories receive attention and which assumptions go unchallenged. These articles examine the people, incentives and institutional pressures behind the narratives shaping public debate.
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Conservatives Don’t Need a Hospital Rumor to Challenge James Talarico
The facility named in the allegation denied treating him. Conservative media should demand evidence from its own side, too.
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Conservatives Don’t Have to Trust CNN to Oppose a Government Press Blacklist
The White House access fight tests whether conservatives want limits on government power even when the excluded outlets are ones they distrust.
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The Left Found Its Racism Limit—After One of Its Own Crossed It
Rula Jebreal’s attack on Hakeem Jeffries exposed a political culture that treats bigotry as intolerable in theory and negotiable when the target becomes inconvenient.
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CBS Reported Abdul El-Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Posts. The Left Called the Reporting Islamophobic.
A Senate candidate’s record is fair game. Treating ordinary scrutiny as prejudice is an attempt to make biography off-limits.
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Hasan Piker Isn’t Being Smeared. He’s Telling You What He Believes.
The socialist streamer’s defenders blame misleading clips and conservative outrage. But his radicalism is not hidden in ten seconds of video. It is the foundation of his politics.