Guillotine Jones, Flâneur8h ago
Saturday night, US political figure Donald Trump staged a surprise event at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner at which he was scheduled to speak.
The surprise caused panic at the dinner leading to evacuation and possible rescheduling.
Later in the evening Trump explained that the stunt was intended to highlight the need for a ballroom on the White House grounds where events like the disrupted dinner could be held.
Earlier in the year, Trump had torn down the East Wing of the White House to create space for his ballroom.
https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2676815189/
#USPolitics #Trump #WHCA #Ballroom #NewsMedia
'Oh my word': Trump astounds with claim WHCD shooting shows the need for his ballroom

President Donald Trump said that the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner proves why the country needs his ballroom in the White House, prompting scorn. "Jesus Christ. He is using this as an excuse to hype his ballroom?" Democratic strategist Chris D. Jackson wrote on X. "I just can't...

Raw Story
Strypey1d ago

"Live on the Waatea Facebook page 10AM this Anzac Day"

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/te-kaupapa-election-2026-weekend-political-podcast-with-marama-davidson-arena-williams-matthew-tukaki-and-bomber/

Seriously? The only place Waatea News are streaming this Aotearoa politics show is via fascisterm media?

https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/

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#WaateaNews #TDB #TheDailyBlog #SocialMedia #NewsMedia #IndigenousMedia

Martin Nutty1d ago

This is very good from #AnnTelnaes

#Cartoon #NewsMedia #USPol

https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/the-wh-correspondents-dinner?r=3alg6&utm_medium=ios

The WH Correspondents' Dinner

Unethical and tone deaf

Open Windows- Ann Telnaes
N-gated Hacker News3d ago
In a shocking twist of internet fate, it seems that #satire is eating its own tail 🔄 as The Onion attempts to out-conspiracy the king of conspiracies. Who needs facts when you've got punchlines, right? 😂 Meanwhile, the NYT insists you suffer #JavaScript and ads so they can tell you what you already knew. 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html #internetculture #TheOnion #conspiracy #newsmedia #HackerNews #ngated
The Onion Signs New Deal to Take Over Infowars

A new deal, which would allow The Onion to use the Infowars name and website address, must be approved by a Texas judge.

The New York Times
Strypey4d ago

"['Media out to get me' is] what politicians say when they're in trouble. And the media can be annoying. But that's the price of democracy."

#MatthewHooten, the #BradburyGroup, 2026

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/MEDIAWORKSRADIOLIMITED7682486290.mp3?updated=1776816575

#NewsMedia #WaateaNews #Rova #podcasts #media #democracy

Matthew Cullis4d ago

We Used to be Journos: Iran's AI Lego propaganda, spotlighting Seven's renewables hit job and BRS 'Breaks silence'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjQNMIqXhM

#auspol #newsmedia #iran #renewables #warcimes #lego #ai

Iran’s AI Lego propaganda, spotlighting Seven’s renewables hit job + Roberts-Smith 'breaks silence'

YouTube
Jack William Bell4d ago

I think one of the oddest turns of the last decade is the fact I might soon be reading Onion-flavored articles on Infowars.

#uspol #news #newsmedia #WTF

Strypey6d ago

"You only have to add a few adjectives in there and then you're telling people what *you* think ... And then you can put 'analysis' at the top. But in today's world the public wants and is ask for a much clearer distinction between news and opinion."

Dr #GregTreadwell, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2019031554/news-trust-up-after-years-of-slumps-storm-before-the-calm

Maybe news websites ought to have their opinion sections under subdomains, eg opinion.rnz.co.nz, with a recognizably different masthead and page appearance?

#NewsMedia #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts

News trust up after years of slumps, storm before the calm

Trust in the news is up again after years of decline, the latest annual survey says. But it als says trust in social media is up and more of us tune out the news more often. What's going on? Also: Vaianu wasn't as deadly as the media warned. Did they get it wrong?

RNZ
JBApr 18
April 17th 2026, yesterday Trump bullshitted about the strait of #Hormuz opening The legacy #media & #newsmedia & therefore investors FELL FOR IT So The #stockmarket went up SURPRISED?? Call congress www.congress.gov/members/find... STOP THE MADNESS-STOP THE WAR ! #Democracy #incompetence

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Otis WhiteApr 15
How do we get people to pay for local news? The answer may come from a nonprofit started in 2022 with the mission of reporting on MD public policy. It now has 79,000 paid subscribers and is expanding. Next stop: Pittsburgh, where it is buying a venerable newspaper. The goal: persuading people there to pay for factual, unbiased news. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/media/pittsburgh-post-gazette-bought-venetoulis-institute.html #newsmedia
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Saved From Closure by Nonprofit

The Venetoulis Institute of Local Journalism, which operates The Baltimore Banner, has bought The Post-Gazette. The newspaper was set to shut down next month.

The New York Times