Investigative Journalism
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How One Mom Is Fighting Against Big Education and for Free Speech
Free speech has been under attack for a long time on college campuses. Now more than ever, students and parents need tools to navigate the woke culture within education. “I think we see college administrators giving themselves huge powers because … they have these speech codes, where they ban 'hateful' speech, 'offensive' speech, and sure,…Lauren Evans -
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House Republicans Call for Probe of FBI Raid on Project Veritas
House Republicans are calling for a congressional investigation into the FBI’s raid on and seizure of information from Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe and potentially other government actions against a free press. “I have called for a specific investigation into how some of those tools were used against Project Veritas,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told The…Fred Lucas -
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Liz Cheney’s Unjust War Against Trump
Who’d believe that two liberal-left newspapers might keep former President Donald Trump out of the slammer? Certainly not this reporter. But it’s true. Unlike many conservatives, I relish reading The Washington Post and The New York Times. Sure, they can be biased and deserve the harsh condemnation they frequently receive from their critics. But every…Allan Ryskind -
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California Suppressing Evidence That ‘Would Exculpate’ David Daleiden, Attorneys Say
California is limiting undercover journalist and pro-life activist David Daleiden from conducting his legal defense by requesting that certain evidence be excluded from his upcoming trial, Daleiden’s lawyers argued in court documents filed Friday. Daleiden posed as a fetal tissue procurer and secretly recorded and published videos in 2013 and 2014 of Planned Parenthood employees…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Why No Media ‘Reckoning’ Over Phony Steele Dossier?
Axios says there’s a “reckoning” in the media over coverage of the Steele dossier after the partisan oppo document’s primary source was charged with lying to the FBI. “It’s one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history,” writes Sara Fischer, “and the media’s response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid.”…David Harsanyi -
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Sean Spicer’s Road Map for Stopping Biden’s Radical Plan to Change Our Nation
Sean Spicer wants you to take President Joe Biden at his word—his policy agenda really will radically transform America as we know it. Spicer’s new book, “Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America,” details the Biden administration’s agenda and how it is already proving disastrous. He also provides readers with a…Robert B. Bluey -
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Biden’s Proposal to Allow IRS to Track Your Bank Transactions Is Dangerous for All Americans
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are trying to force financial institutions to report their customers’ account balances to the Internal Revenue Service, thereby invading your privacy and putting more of your financial data at risk. It’s part of a provision in the $3.5 trillion spending bill that should raise the ire of all Americans….Scott Zipperle -
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In Breach of Norms, Biden Fires Trump Appointees From Government Panels
President Joe Biden recently purged his predecessor’s appointees from government boards and commissions, in what critics call an unprecedented break with tradition. Appointees named by Donald Trump while he was president, among them former senior presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, were told bluntly by letter to resign or…Douglas Blair -
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Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson
Most journalism advocacy groups, while boasting of defending a free press, declined to express concern about a government spy agency’s “unmasking” of Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson. The Daily Signal got mixed results last week when it asked CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post for comment on journalist-commentator Carlson’s treatment by…Fred Lucas -
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Donors Bash UNC Over Marxism, BLM Affiliation as Creator of 1619 Project Sought for Tenured Job
Donors to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill criticized the university for perceived sympathy toward radical ideas of Marxism and Black Lives Matter during debate over whether to offer New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured position, according to emails seen by Fox News. The emails, sent to various UNC faculty, fault…Ailan Evans -
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Ocasio-Cortez, in Leaked CNN Interview, Says She Feared Being Raped During Capitol Riot
Portions of a leaked CNN interview published by an independent investigative media outlet show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., saying she thought she was going to be raped during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. In the video clip published by Project Veritas, Ocasio-Cortez tells CNN’s Dana Bash that she is a survivor of sexual assault,…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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We’ll Tell You What ‘60 Minutes+’ Won’t About How Transgender Movement Endangers Kids
One of the hallmarks of investigative journalism is the examination of multiple perspectives. That’s what CBS’ “60 Minutes” is famous for and why its viewers rely upon it. To its credit, “60 Minutes+” (the new spinoff that runs on the Paramount+ streaming service) did approach The Heritage Foundation to seek our perspective on the Save Adolescents From…Emilie Kao -
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Could Biden IRS Expansion Plan Signal Return to Politicization?
Given the Internal Revenue Service’s history of politicization, conservatives are expressing concern about the potential for abuse from President Joe Biden’s proposed doubling of the number of IRS agents. A massive information leak of private tax data has only exacerbated those concerns. Ahead of IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s testimony before a Senate committee Tuesday, ProPublica,…Fred Lucas -
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The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting
In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group, and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other…Mark Hemingway -
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The Hunter Biden Omission Perseveres
Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop will be ignored by the “mainstream media.” To be fair, when they didn’t ignore the story back then, they constantly implied it was a Russian disinformation plot. On…Tim Graham -
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7 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Supreme Court and Dark Money
Senators and a witness at a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon called out three left-leaning dark money groups for decrying the existence of conservative dark money groups. The term “dark money” generally applies to a political organization that doesn’t disclose its donors. Leaders of the liberal groups People for the American Way, the Center for Media…Fred Lucas -
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Sharyl Attkisson Explains How Traditional Media Abandoned Fact-Based Reporting
The traditional media has sacrificed fact-based reporting in favor of promoting its own social and political agenda, says Sharyl Attkisson, author of the new book “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.” Attkisson, host of the TV show “Full Measure” and a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, joins the…Virginia Allen -
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Ties Apparent Between China and Project of Black Lives Matter Co-Founder
Veteran journalist Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, recently did some investigative reporting. In an exclusive commentary last week for The Daily Signal, Gonzalez wrote that Alicia Garza, one of three founders of the Black Lives Matter organization, had partnered with a left-wing San…Rachel del Guidice -
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Investigating the Prevalence of Left-Leaning ‘Fact-Checkers’
Editor’s note: We have added a response from NewsGuard to this article. A growing response to today’s chaotic information landscape sounds inviting and elegantly simple: Appoint experts to “fact-check” news stories, blogs, speeches, studies, opinions, and political ads. Information they deem to be false is corrected or even removed from public view, in the name…Sharyl Attkisson -
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Investigating China’s Coronavirus Propaganda Wildfire
China is waging a propaganda war against the coronavirus on several fronts. In well-documented efforts, China has sought to deflect attention from its early suppression of information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and to claim that, among all nations, China has halted the scourge. But China’s communist government also is pushing an…Richard Bernstein