News and Views: September 13, 2024

Dem Senator Warns Report on Trump Assassination Attempt 'Will Absolutely Shock the American People'  Now, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is bracing the nation for the report about the security failures that occurred that day, adding, “I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished & appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the former president [Trump].”

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The Presidential Debate Shows Us Why Alternative Media Is Saving America Traditional media outlets have gatekeepers who ensure that the people who rise to positions of prominence are intent on promoting left-wing narratives to help Democrats. The digital realm allows for a plethora of voices, bringing to light stories or angles that major outlets ignore or downplay.

   The digital world operates in real-time, which means disinformation coming from legacy media outlets can be immediately challenged and repudiated. In this way, alternative media platforms have disrupted the monopoly on information previously enjoyed by the big boys.

   The bias that Muir and Davis displayed during the debate serves as a poignant reminder of why alternative media platforms are critical in today’s media landscape. They provide more avenues through which people can get the truth by listening to a variety of viewpoints rather than being limited to the ones carefully curated by the once-vaunted Fourth Estate.

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Columbia Distances Itself From New Faculty Group That Hosted Pro-Terrorist Surgeon  Columbia University is distancing itself from a new faculty group that hosted an anti-Israel doctor who has praised terrorists, including a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) cofounder who helped plan an Israeli airplane hijacking and a Hamas leader suspected of masterminding a rabbi's murder. Image

Banned Anti-Israel Student Group At Penn Throws Red Paint On Ben Franklin Statue  In its Thursday post, (u)PAO called the Franklin statue "a symbol of imperial violence and colonialism." It was also the site of anti-Israel protests and an encampment that inflamed Penn’s campus after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. 

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Report Says Britain's NHS is in Dire Condition 

The promise is that for most procedures, treatment will start within 18 weeks. In March 2010, there were just over 2.4m on the waiting list, of whom 200,000 had been waiting longer than 18 weeks. Of those, 20,000 had waited more than a year. By contrast, in June 2024, more than 300,000—fifteen times as many—had waited for over a year, and 1.75 million had been waiting for between 6 and 12 months.

Bob Casey Once Touted Healthcare Reform Vilified as ‘Trojan Horse‘ for Medicare for All 

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