There’s a lot of talk these days about “fake news,” especially as the political and media establishments continue their ballyhooing about supposed Russian hacking in the most recent presidential election cycle. Many people are justifiably concerned about how to decipher between what’s actually happening in the world and how to respond to it appropriately, and […]

As they continue to watch their ratings plummet and viewership vanish, dying mainstream media outlets like CNN and MSNBC are scrambling to come up with solutions to stay afloat. The Common Sense Show‘s Dave Hodges says that such solutions will likely involve dinosaur media groups trying to co-opt alternative media personalities to their side, and […]

The New York Times is engaging in some alternate methods of reporting by using unverified information to crank out stories that paint President-elect Donald Trump in a negative light. The latest slew of unverified smears relates to an alleged dossier of information that could potentially tie Trump and his team to Russia. While it’s 100 […]

It’s not been a good year for the so-called “mainstream media,” which has dishonored and discredited itself at nearly every opportunity, largely over its incredibly biased and slanted political coverage. The New York Times, especially, has seen its reputation take a hit, which is a big deal considering it is ‘the paper of record’ in […]

The New York Times publisher and executive editor have promised to rededicate the paper to its fundamental mission — to report America and the world honestly, without favors and fear. The paper claims they will strive to understand and reflect all political perspectives and life experiences in stories brought to the public. This announcement is […]

South by Southwest Interactive turned out to be less exciting than years past. Many Silicon Valley tech companies decided not to attend this year’s festival based on what is rumored to be economic reasons. Companies like Yahoo didn’t host the events they normally do, while executives from Tumblr attended only a handful of panels. Some investors and […]

Public universities in Texas cannot ban guns from dorm rooms, despite efforts to do so at the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning in August of next year, license holders (you must be 21+ years old to obtain one) may carry a concealed handgun on university campuses. The new campus carry law, S.B. 11, was […]