#Media Criticism

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 The new show making fun of tech bros — 11/04/2026 [USA]

  Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 123, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, which Artemis photo did you make your wallpaper, and also you can rea...

  Related: #Tech Culture, #Consumer Technology
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Audacity’ Review: AMC’s Clever, Pitch-Black Comedy Gets Trapped in a Tech Bubble — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  In following a data-mining CEO's desperate attempts to be accepted as a titan of industry, Jonathan Glatzer's hourlong series delves deep (maybe too deep) into the fragile egos and delusions of grande...

  Related: #Technology Satire, #Corporate Culture
• 🇺🇸 Trump Attacks Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly Over Iran War Criticism — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  In a lengthy social media post, the president attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others in starkly personal terms. He also criticized the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.

  Related: #U.S. Politics, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Rails Against Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens And Alex Jones For Blasting His Decision To Go To War With Iran — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Donald Trump laid into four media figures and podcasters who had been strident supporters, yet have blasted the president for his decision to go to war with Iran and for his ceasefire agreement to try...

  Related: #Political Conflict, #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Stephen Colbert Skewers Trump’s ‘Double-Sided’ Cease-fire — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  “The Late Show” host asked if being double-sided wasn’t a prerequisite: “I believe there’s a word for a single-sided cease-fire and it’s ‘murder.’”

  Related: #Political Satire, #Diplomatic Language
• 🇺🇸 George Clooney Claps Back at Trump’s White House After Acting Ability Criticism — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  "Families are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge," the Oscar winner wrote. "This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not...

  Related: #Celebrity Politics, #Political Discourse
• 🇺🇸 ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ Review: Journalist Amy Goodman Is the Subject of a Glowing Doc That Should Rally the Converted — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The "Democracy Now!" host comes across as a one-dimensional hero in a mission-oriented film that's arriving just in time for the midterm elections.

  Related: #Documentary Film, #Political Journalism
• 🇬🇧 Huw Edwards says Channel 5 drama ‘hardly likely to convey reality’ — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Former BBC presenter says production company Wonderhood did not check facts with him first</p><p>Huw Edwards has criticised Channel 5 for failing to “check with me the truth” before running a drama...

  Related: #Entertainment Accuracy
• 🇺🇸 Huw Edwards Issues Blistering Statement About Drama Chronicling His Downfall & Says He’s Planning To Tell His Side Of Story — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Huw Edwards has spoken out for the first time since receiving a suspended prison sentence for accessing child abuse images. The disgraced former BBC News anchor has issued a statement condemning an up...

  Related: #Personal Narrative
• 🇺🇸 John Oliver Mocks Operation Epic Fury: “Definitely the Stupidest Name I’ve Ever Heard” — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  "It sounds like a VHS tape Hegseth put out of himself doing karate in a garage," the 'Last Week Tonight' host said. "It sounds like the name of an energy drink marketed to divorced monster-truck fans ...

  Related: #Satire, #Military
• 🇺🇸 John Oliver Says Trump Has Pushed “Truth To Breaking Point” With Iran War Claims: “The Lies Are Getting Pretty Flagrant Here, Even By This President’s Standards” — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  During his opening monologue on tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed the spiraling claims by Donald Trump’s administration regarding the Iran War, which has continued to d...

  Related: #Political Satire, #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 A smidgen of doubt about Trump’s jibe | Brief letters — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Nato ‘cowards’ | Duck dish | Measurements | Small amounts | Chelsea gnomes | Excuses | Floaters</p><p>Perhaps Donald Trump might encourage his “cowardly” Nato colleagues by reminding them about his...

  Related: #Politics
• 🇬🇧 Jimmy Kimmel on Trump Pearl Harbor joke: ‘Everything he knows about it begins and ends with the Ben Affleck movie’ — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Late-night hosts panned Trump’s joke about the 1941 attack, addressed new unredacted Epstein emails and talked popular puppy names</p><p>With The Late Show with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com...

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇬🇧 Digested week: Hegseth chides media for focusing on trivial issue of his Iran strategy — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Cheerleader-in-chief demands more enthusiasm for US-Israeli assault that is helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine</p><p>When even your mother calls you out as a cheat and a liar, then it’s prob...

  Related: #Iran Policy
• 🇺🇸 Hegseth hammers European allies, media in staunch Trump defense over Iran war — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Hegseth goes after allies, media ▪ Trump says no boots on ground in Iran ▪ SAVE America Act votes coming ▪ Education D...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 The BBC’s Today has always had its critics – they speak to its importance | Letter — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Responding to an article that asked whether the flagship Radio 4 news programme has lost its way, <strong>Francis Bown </strong>writes that it was ever thus</p><p>Since I went up to Cambridge in 19...

  Related: #Public Broadcasting
• 🇬🇧 Trump threatens TV networks over unpatriotic Iran coverage — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  And why has top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigned?

  Related: #Political Tensions
• 🇺🇸 Jake Shane’s Questions at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Prove Influencers Shouldn’t Be Red Carpet Reporters — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Jake Shane was one of three influencers that Vanity Fair hired to cover the carpet at its Oscar party, the first such bash thrown under its new editor Mark Guiducci. It cannot have gone how Guiducci m...

  Related: #Celebrity Culture
• 🇬🇧 Stop paying comedians to go on holiday! Why comics’ travel shows need to end — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Alexander Armstrong, Lucy Beaumont, Bradley Walsh … when will commissioners stop sending standups to other nations? It’s not like they have any insight or connection to these places – it has to end...

  Related: #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 Hegseth has no place as the voice of American war — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  A serious military does not celebrate destruction as proof of strength. And it does not treat the rules that govern force as optional.

  Related: #Military Representation
• 🇺🇸 Piers Morgan blasts Trump over Iran strategy, war objective — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Right now, two weeks in, the central question isn’t whether the United States can overpower Iran militarily. It’s whether the strategy behind this war fully accounted for the ways Iran could fight bac...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 The hill I will die on: Streaming is rubbish – take me back to the golden era of DVDs | Frances Ryan — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Deliver me from the hassle of multiple platforms, ‘double paywalls’ and the nagging feeling I’m helping to fund Jeff Bezos’s next yacht</p><p>Streaming has many strengths: producing some of the bes...

  Related: #Nostalgia
• 🇺🇸 Oscars Amp Up The Politics: As Donald Trump Rages At The Media, Presenters And Winners Counter The “Chaotic, Frightening Times” — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The Oscars got more political this year, not just with the underlying themes of winners like One Battle After Another and Sinners, but the subtle and overt references to the turbulent times under Dona...

  Related: #Political Commentary
• 🇺🇸 John Oliver Denounces Pete Hegseth’s Comments Celebrating David Ellison’s CNN Takeover & White House’s Iran War “Hype Videos” — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  In his post-Oscars broadcast, John Oliver denounced Pete Hegseth’s recent comments about CNN surrounding its Iran War coverage and the White House’s pro-war videos made in the style of a middle school...

  Related: #Political Satire
• 🇺🇸 Jimmy Kimmel Slams CBS at the Oscars for Not Supporting Free Speech and Jokes That Trump Is ‘Going to Be Mad’ That ‘Melania’ Isn’t Nominated — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Jimmy Kimmel didn’t host the Oscars on Sunday — that job went for the second year in a row to the fantastic Conan O’Brien — but in presenting the documentary categories, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host s...

  Related: #Political Satire, #Awards Show
• 🇺🇸 ‘SNL’ Cold Open: Pete Hegseth Has Some Terrible Advice for Trapped Oil Tankers — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Donald Trump summons the Defense secretary to explain why the U.S. has "won" the war against Iran and why the media should stop worrying about it

  Related: #Satire
• 🇬🇧 Gordon hits back at 'complete nonsense' from Rooney and Shearer — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Newcastle United's match-winner against Chelsea, Anthony Gordon, responds to "complete nonsense" from pundits Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer.

  Related: #Sports Controversy
• 🇺🇸 FCC chair slams broadcasters after Trump disputes reports on Iran-damaged U.S. tankers — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  FCC Chair Brendan Carr blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."

  Related: #Geopolitical Tensions
• 🇺🇸 President Trump says Iran is "totally defeated," calling out "fake news" — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump declared Iran "totally defeated" just two weeks into the conflict with the Middle Eastern country.

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇬🇧 Claudia Winkleman's new chat show splits critics — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Jeff Goldblum, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Saunders and Tom Allen starred in the inaugural episode.

  Related: #Entertainment