Speaking to reporters from the White House on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired off on a reporter who asked if President Trump supports the First Amendment.
The question surrounded the topic of the upcoming military parade that will take place in Washington, D.C. this weekend.
Hours after they had come under fire from the White House, Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, sought to rally her troops.
In an email sent to all staff in BBC news and current affairs, Turness said she was “deeply proud” of their efforts, which were of the “highest quality … in the most challenging circumstances”.
Breaking: @bbcnews have become the gold standard for fake news in support of Hamas.
Watch the White House @PressSec, Karoline Leavitt single out the BBC for ridicule because of its fake news (Hamas propaganda) reporting. Oh dear me. BBC are Hamas shills. pic.twitter.com/67lTXz6s8t
— David Collier (@mishtal) June 3, 2025
If I spun you a tale about my life as a mercenary in the 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d’etat, I’d probably get your attention.
It would be a ripping good yarn, filled with evil masterminds, hints of Bond villains, precious relics, and blood diamonds. I might even sprinkle it with how I’d heard that the Ark of the Covenant is guarded quietly and stored in Nokolo-Koba National Park, not far from the Gambia River.
This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.
Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.
Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”
David Muir’s Firefighter Barbie outfit wasn’t the first or most obvious indication that the institution he represents is fake news.
While LA is burning, @DavidMuir makes sure to pin the back of his fire suit because "This coat makes me look fat!" ♂️ pic.twitter.com/rx5b7tsYhZ
— Mark Kaye (@markkayeshow) January 9, 2025
RFK Jr: "The CIA … is the biggest funder of journalism in the world"
" … The Daily Beast … Rolling Stone … Scientific American, National Geographic, Salon, Daily Kos … direct connections to the intelligence agencies"pic.twitter.com/KBOJzNFp0K
— David Windt (@DavidLWindt) December 10, 2024
But Not In The News
Progressive online culture columnist Taylor Lorenz is leaving her position at the Washington Post to launch a publication on Substack after she drew fresh controversy for claiming President Joe Biden is a “war criminal” during a reporting assignment.
Pierre Poilievre acts as if there’s power in being unlikeable. It’s not a good look
Conservatives appear to be trying everything this fall to turn their poll lead into eventual election victory, with the exception of one force in politics — likeability.
Nothing in Pierre Poilievre’s repertoire in the Commons the past two weeks has been aimed at making people like him, beyond those who already do. He insults, he taunts, he name-calls, he sneers — all the things that parents tell their children not to do if they want to make and keep friends.
Mean and nasty is the default setting for Conservatives.
Delacourt is upset that there were repercussions for the “journalists” who literally spread a lie about Poilievre. Imagine if the same happened to Justin or Jagmeet?
More “Journalists”
Saying Poilievre will restore journalistic ethics and integrity shows how far from reality Canadian conservatives have strayed: they are locked in a bubble of their own making, convinced everyone else is wrong. God, they’ll be a bad government https://t.co/yWknCqRRfX
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) September 27, 2024
Spend too much time arguing on the internet, and you’re bound to come across an increasingly common phrase: “Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s truth.”
I’ve seen that phrase written in comments sections and on X; under news articles noting that Greek government mismanagement may have been partially responsible for wildfires there last year; and by, in one case, Piers Corbyn, the older brother of former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who uttered the phrase to a ravenous crowd protesting lockdowns and other aligned evils: masks, social distancing, vaccines, 5G mobile networks, and a non-binding UN sustainability resolution that some conspiracy theorists believe is a harbinger of a totalitarian one-world government imposed on mankind. Most recently, I saw it in response to a claim that Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek purposely broke the water main in order to impose tyrannical water restrictions on the populace.
Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin Trudeau, one of the world’s great progressive leaders, may be heading toward that moment. In a recent interview he acknowledged that every day he considers leaving his “crazy job” as Canada’s prime minister. Increasingly, the question is not if he will leave but how soon and how deep his failure will be when he goes.
This is a blowjob not an article.
In many ways, Pierre Poilievre’s relationship with Ottawa’s Parliamentary Press Gallery is a tired tale, ripped straight from the dog-eared Conservative playbook which demands that Ottawa reporters be treated as enemies.
Liberals and New Democrats also occasionally borrow from that playbook, but the Conservative belief that anyone who asks them a tough question in an Ottawa media availability is an elitist, biased agent of liberalism is deeply-ingrained.
Because it’s true.
A federal program that funds hundreds of local journalists and underserved regions across the country is set to expire at the end of March, and the independent newsrooms that rely on it have no news about whether it will be renewed.
The uncertainty comes amid mass layoffs in and uncertainty in some of Canada’s biggest newsrooms, and at a time when politicians such as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau express anger at their leaders.
The other day I was rummaging around in my basement and stumbled across a tattered binder from my 2010 Carleton University journalism school days. As I brushed away the dust from my 14-year-old handwritten notes, my eyes were drawn to my very first reporting class lesson. My professor, Norma Greenaway, a Postmedia journalist of 40 years, set out what we journalist hatchlings had to keep top of mind as we put pen to paper for the very first time. We had responsibilities to the reader that we had to remember. I had scribbled down some words in my notepad and underlined them twice: “Be balanced and fair.”
Brazilian international student Fernando Bossoes came to Canada to study journalism. Now in his second year at Humber College’s Bachelor of Journalism program, he chose the Toronto polytechnic partly because the journalism programs offered back home were too “old school” for his liking.
But just a few months after Bossoes began his studies, Humber announced that it would be pausing new admissions to the program in 2023. And while his cohort started with seven students, that number has dwindled to four — including an exchange student who will be leaving next year, he said — after several people dropped out.
