6 h. ago Mark Wood cautions England players against making ‘dumb’ comments to the media

Rob Key, England’s managing director of men’s cricket, said last month some England players “speak a lot of rubbish a lot of the time”.

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11 h. 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 d. ago Peter Dutton criticised as ‘illiberal’ for calling ABC and the Guardian ‘hate media’

Critics compare Coalition leader to Donald Trump while Labor communications minister suggests Dutton is ‘afraid of scrutiny’Polls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaAcademics and former journalists say Peter Dutton’s comments labelling the ABC and Guardian Australia “hate media” are “reminiscent of Donald Trump” and could backfire as the election campaign heads into its final week.The opposition leader addressed the party faithful at a rally in the Labor-held seat of Hawke on Melbourne’s outskirts on Sunday before the 3 May poll.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Snooker fans all noticed the same thing in bizarre picture of Jimmy White and Roy Keane

Social media users were quick to comment when a photograph emerged online of Roy Keane alongside snooker star, Jimmy White, with many in agreement about a particular feature of Keane's

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5 d. ago Celebrity Big Brother fans spot Chris Hughes 'blunder' as they question outside world contact

Viewers of the ITV reality show flocked to social media as they had one question over Chris comments to Jack P Shepherd

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6 d. ago Ukraine: Scottish MPs on why Russia must not be handed Crimea after Donald Trump claim

It follows comments made by the US President on social media

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6 d. ago Donald Trump condemns Russia attacks on Kyiv as MPs warn no concessions on territory

It follows comments made by the US President on social media

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8 d. ago For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS | Margaret Sullivan

Trump’s anti-media diatribes are part of the authoritarian playbook. Congress must reject his planned cutsIt was entirely predictable that Donald Trump would go after public media in America. Harming the reality-based press – in every form, whether public or private – is a central part of his playbook for controlling the political narrative as he moves the country toward an authoritarian model of government.For Trump, the message is all, and anything that gets in the way should be portrayed as an evil to society and stamped out.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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9 d. ago With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik

A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazyThere are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces....

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1 week ago Gogglebox star's raunchy bedroom remark leaves Channel 4 fans in hysterics

Gogglebox fans were left in hysterics on Friday evening as they flocked to social media to comment on Mary Killen's reaction to a raunchy soap scene.

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2 w. ago SNL star Sarah Sherman TROLLED by Aimee Lou Wood fans flooding her social media with angry comments

Comedian Sarah Sherman has come under fire following her cruel impression of  Aimee Lou Wood in a Saturday Night Live sketch, which mocked the actress' teeth.

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2 w. ago Reform UK council candidate 'called for Chris Whitty to be strung up' and praised golliwog toy as 'cute'

Adele Taggart, who is hoping to be elected to Durham County Council on 1 May, is the latest Reform candidate to face scrutiny over their past social media comments.

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2 w. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans make demand as professional line

One former dancers' admission dominated the comments section of a social media post

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3 w. ago Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and didn’t mention Gaza once. That’s no surprise | Judith Levine

US politicians and the media are focused on our domestic crisis. But we cannot close our eyes to the outside worldSeven and three-quarters hours into his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, the New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker uttered the word “Gaza”. He was not talking about the war. He stepped nowhere near the 50,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli armed forces since 8 October 2023, or the US’s military and political support of the genocide.Rather, Booker was searching for a particularly ludicrous lie from a presidential administration that has told thousands. “There are lies about USAID, like, I don’t know, 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous,” he said. Considering the other outrageous things Trump has said about Gaza – such as his plan to “clean out” the strip to make room for luxury resorts – the remark felt trivializing.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Celebrity Bake Off fans disgusted by 'nightmare fuel' pie deemed show's 'most repulsive' creation

Tonight's episode of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer had some fans taking to social media to comment on one particularly gruesome-looking pie.

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3 w. ago The pressure of South Korea’s celebrity culture as a new case raises questions

The harsh glare of media attention and the often-unforgiving nature of online commentary are increasingly being questioned

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