7 d. ago Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan

A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problemWith a new book out about Joe Biden’s failed re-election campaign, a media reckoning is in full swing.It goes something like this: mainstream journalism failed the voters. Reporters were complicit; they didn’t tell us how much the elderly president had declined. They didn’t dig beneath the surface of what Biden aides were doing as they covered up the physical and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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7 d. ago BRIAN READE: ‘Mainstream media doesn't spread a tissue of lies like fake news’

In a world full of AI-generated disinformation spreading untrue claims like Macron and Starmer snorting cocaine on a train, we need the fact-checking legacy media more than ever, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade

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9 d. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most enviable physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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9 d. ago Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”. And that last part, really, was the trick: by crediting his results to a regime that nobody else would dare try, he gave them a faint veneer of plausibilty. Maybe, if you followed a less extreme version of his protocol, you could get comparable (though less extreme) results. And if you couldn’t stomach an all-organ diet, well, you could always get the same nutrients from his line of supplements.The Liver Kin...

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3 w. ago BRIAN READE: The North does not need Northern Arc gimmicks... the South will soon come begging

While the South has billions lavished on it, joining up Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds still remains a dream, Brian Reade argues. But the North holds all the cards when it comes to keeping them well watered

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3 w. ago Drudge Report owner threatens Trump with '$1 TRILLION lawsuit' after White House launched copycat news site

The site represents Trump's latest attempt to circumvent mainstream media, after going after legacy new organizations ranging from ABC News to the Associated Press.

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3 w. ago The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson | Norman Solomon

The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflictThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about US media coverage of the war is locked into the faulty premise that news outlets were pivotal in causing Americans to turn against it. Some say that mainstream media undermined a noble war effort, while others say that coverage alerted the public to realities of an unjust war. Both assertions are wrong.Scapegoating the media fits neatly into “stab in the back” theories of Americans who can’t stand the fact that their country lost a war to impoverished Vietnamese fighters. And praising the media as catalysts for the nation’s roused conscience gives undue credit while fostering illusions about mainstream news coverage of America’s wars. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Essex Millionaire Murders: Handyman's twisted web of lies who posed as fake doctor before poisoning couple

Luke D'Wit created more than 20 fake personas to spin a web of lies before using fentanyl to fatally poison Carol and Stephen Baxter at their home. In 2024 he was sentenced to life in prison

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4 w. ago BRIAN READE: 'Lineker is right, we owe it to our war heroes to stay alert to fascism'

As we approach the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it has never been more important to speak out when we see red flags reminding us of that heinous regime, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade

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