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The mainstream media celebrated Biden for selecting only women to be part of his senior communications team, rarely mentioning the fact that Trump has employed multiple females in high-profile communications positions, too. CNN even praised Biden's “transparency” over his recent foot injury, a take that was too much for even the far-left MSNBC to agree with. … [Read more...] about Critics call out media’s ‘overtly flattering’ approach to covering Biden appointments

Berry has also plucked employees from the opinion side of Fox News to staff the news website. He’s brought in a former producer for Hannity, as well as multiple former Fox & Friends producers to edit the site. Berry’s deputy, Stefanie Wheeler Choi, is a fellow former staffer on The Five who followed him over to the digital side as a managing editor and executive producer. The elevation of Choi, who is seen as Berry’s right-hand person, on the digital news side has apparently rankled other staffers as she had no previous digital experience. … [Read more...] about Hannity’s Crony Has Taken Over Fox News Digital—and It’s a Disaster, Staffers Say

Arguing for “re-righting America” in the piece’s conclusion, Newslinger suggested the problem is Americans favoring less “reliable” right-wing sources, pointing to viewers switching from Fox News to Newsmax over coverage of the disputed 2020 election. Newsmax was banned following its popularity boost, but Fox was itself earlier this year discouraged as a source for political content. One author of the Berkman Klein study Newslinger linked was even cited then to argue for banning Fox. Some editors have floated launching another effort at banning Fox News, citing reported reluctance to call former Vice President Joe Biden “President-elect” despite him not yet being officially chosen by the Electoral College. … [Read more...] about Wikipedia’s In-House Newsletter Defends Conservative Media Purge, Claims Site Is ‘Center-Right’

The media group’s lawyer, Victoria Baranetsky, said the organization had been looking into gun use across the country in 2017 and wanted to include data on criminals’ use of weapons previously owned by police, but was thwarted by the federal agency’s claim of secrecy. She said reporters’ attempts to unearth federal gun data under the Freedom of Information Act had been rejected by the courts for more than a decade before Thursday’s ruling. … [Read more...] about Media has right to official records on guns used in crimes and formerly held by police, court rules

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday that these exemptions would be even further expanded from Saturday to include those who fall under the “new business traveller exemption”. The minister wrote on social media that “high-value business travellers will no longer need to self-isolate when returning to England from a country not in a travel corridor, allowing more travel to support the economy and jobs”. … [Read more...] about One Rule for Me: ‘High Value’ Executives, Athletes, Media Freed from Two Weeks’ COVID Quarantine