ONLY THE WORST PEOPLE — The Criminals, Sycophants, Bigots, Swindlers, Liars, Demagogues, Pedophiles, Pornographers, Imbeciles, Lunatics, Bullies, Misogynists, Parasites, Plagiarists, Perjurers, Extortionists, Traitors, Insurrectionists, Conspiracy Junkies, and Other Deviants Who Contributed to the Trump Presidency.
Welcome to democracy, which, if you believe Thomas Jefferson, depends on voters being informed.
Jefferson’s argument runs counter to that of Donald Trump, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, and other con artists who believe that facts are no different from “alternative facts” or shit you make up.
In this post, I include the names for all – or at least most — of the sources I use in my blog. For a democracy to function voters must have faith in their sources of information – and this involves knowing the sources of your information.
I’m a professor of journalism at Indiana University-Indiana, where I teach a course called Fake News. My Fake News course was inspired by Donald Trump, who claimed to have invented the term “fake news.” He didn’t. Media critic Craig Silverman used the term long before Trump did.
Trump weaponized “fake news.” Trump learned from Adolf Hitler who used the German phrase “lugenpresse” or “lying press” to discredit the press by calling it “the enemy of the people.” The objective, for Hitler and Trump, was for their supporters to believe their lies over facts published in the press The Washington Post reported that Trump made more than 30 thousand lies or misleading claims in his four years as president. The newspaper posts those lies/misstatements on its website.
Fake news – or shit people make up – has become a cancer and it is metastasizing in the body republic. We need to teach Media Literacy beginning in kindergarten so children, who frequently become adults, so they can determine what it real and what is not and become informed voters.
We must be able to determine if our news is credible or not. To do so, we need to know the source of our information. This is what I tried to do here
I tell my students that their sources matter. I tell them to include sources for any information they include. I also tell them all sources are not equal.
Here are the sources I’ve used so far in my blog.
ABC
Above The Law
Acadiana (LA) Advocate
(Alabama) AL.com
American Progress
American Psychological Association
Argusleader.com
Army Times
Asheville Citizens-Tribune
Associated Press
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Axios
AZCentral.com
Baseballreference.com
BBC
Bible (English Standard Version)
Bible Gateway.com
Billboard
Bleacher Report
Bloomberg
Boston Globe
Brennan Center
Business Insider
Buzz Feed
Casetext.com
CBN
CBS
Charlotte Clymer@cmclymer
Charlotte Observer
Christianity Today
Christian Science Monitor
CIA
Cincinnati.com
Cleveland.com
Cleveland Clinic
Compassion.com
Complex.com
CNBC
CNN
Columbia Journalism Review
CPAC
Dallas Observer
Democracy Now
DemocratandChronicle.com
Des Moines Register
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
Digital Spy
Donald Trump@realDonaldTrump
Economist
Entertainment
ESPN
Esquire
FBI
FactCheck.org
Federal Drug Administration
Financial Times
Florida Trident
Forbes
Fortune
Fox Business
Fox News
Fox Sports
Fox 2.com
@freedomcaucus
Heritage Foundation
Hollywood Reporter
Howtofightantisemitism.com
Huffington Post
Inc.
Indianapolis Star
Inquisitir.com
Inside Sport
InsiderNJ.com
International Criminal Court
JamesWoods@realJamesWoods
Jimmy Kimmell Live
Just Security
Justice.gov
Kansascity.com
KTBS.com
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
Lauren Boebert@RepBoebert
Law.com
LGBTQ Nation
Liberty University
Lincoln Project
Longreads
Los Angeles Times
Marjory Taylor Greene@RepMTG
Media Matters
Michigan Advance
Military Times
Milwaukee Business Journal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mlive.com
Moms for Liberty
Money
MSNBC
NASA
National Institute of Health
National Library of Medicine
National Post
National Review
NBC
Navigate Law Group
NEA
Newsday
Newsweek
Newser
Newsmax
New York Daily News
New York Post
New Yorker
New York magazine
New York Times
NJ.com
Nola
Norman Ornstein@#NormOrnstein
NPR
Omaha World-Leader
Open Secrets
PBS
People
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburgh Tribune.com
PolitiFact
Politico
Poynter
Premier Christian News
ProPublica
Psychology Today
Quartz
Radical Alert
Randy Quaid@RandyRRQuaid
Reuters
Roll Call
Rolling Stone
Salon
Saturday Night Live
Science
Scientific American
SDPB.org
Seattle Times
SFGate.com
Slate
Snopes
Southern Poverty Law Center
Spectrum News
Sporting News
Stanford University
STLPR.org
Syracuse.com
Talking Points Memo
Texas Monthly
Texas Policy
Texas Tribune
The Atlantic
The Cut
The Daily Beast
The Daily Mail
The Guardian
The Hill
The Independent
The Jewish Chronicle
The Oklahoman
The Tennessean
The Week
The Wrap
Time
Times of Israel
TMC
Today.com
Town and Country
Truethevote.com
TV Guide
Union of Concerned Scientists
UPI
Urban Milwaukee.com
USAID for the American People
US Department of Education
U.S. Department of Treasury
US News and World Report
US Office of Special Counsel
US Sun
USA Today
Vanity Fair
Vice
Vogue
Voice of America
Wall Street Journal
Washington Examiner
Washington Post
Washington Times
WBUR.org
Wired
www.defense
www.intel.gov
www.justice.gov
www.law.cornell
www.news-medical.net
www.Deseret.com
www.statista.com
www.wilderness.org
Yahoo.com
