Only seven percent of journalists in the United States’ national media scene identify as conservatives or libertarians
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this pandemic, it’s that many ideas initially written off as “conspiracy theories” were actually just spoilers. Now, in 2022, Europe is facing growing calls from governments and health authorities for legal vaccine mandates. Recently EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen called for the bloc to move towards such […]
Game changer?
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
Last week, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, interrupted another TD repeatedly in the Dáil as she spoke about why she believed vaccine passports were scapegoating “those people who decided for whatever reason that they didn’t want or couldn’t take the vaccine”. Donnelly accused Independent TD, Verona Murphy, of spreading “anti-vax information in the chamber” after she […]
Last week, while speaking to Pat Kenny on Newstalk radio, Trinity college immunologist Professor Luke O’Neill said that cases grew “exponentially” and “went through the roof” after the UK opened up their economy in July. “Of course [on] July 19th, the UK fully opened, and the big question was ‘What will happen next?’” O’Neill said. […]
TheJournal.ie has gone for gold in the clown media olympics this week, by declaring that the type of covid misinformation that is most dangerous and difficult to combat is the type that’s actually true. The article, entitled “’A distorted perspective’: How anti-lockdown groups are using data to downplay the impact of Covid-19,” describes how terrifying […]
The political correspondent for the Sunday Independent, Hugh O’Connell, had an article in Sunday’s edition titled ‘Religious orders stall on joining redress scheme.’ The sub-heading of the article is ‘Mother and baby home survivors wait as negotiations continue with Government.’ Let us take a critical look at those claims in more detail, because the best […]
Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
Yesterday Gript reported that the International Fact-Checking Network, the IFCN, had told Gript that some of the fact-checking material published by the Journal.ie did not meet their requirements to be considered fact-checking but was instead “non-fact-checking content.” You can read more on that story HERE. The IFCN accredits the Journal as a fact-checker and their […]
A former Green advisor to president Obama has a look at Joe Biden’s statements on the environment and says they are nonsense. In a point by point dissection of Biden’s climate assertions, he says Biden fails the fact check. Joe Biden’s sensationalist environmental claims were reviewed and eviscerated by Environmental campaigner, Michael Scellenberger, who found […]
US President Trump has just signed an executive order to reign in social media companies like Twitter from censoring their political opponents. The level of censorship against conservative and pro-life people on social media in the last few years has been clear to everyone with eyes. Most people by now have at least heard stories […]