This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Fortune
December 20, 2016
“We recently made improvements to our algorithm that will help surface more high quality, credible content on the web."
Source: Politico
December 18, 2016
Bogus news has been around a lot longer than real news. And it’s left a lot of destruction behind.
Source: NYT
December 19, 2016
It wasn’t about small-state bias or regionalism. It was about the nature of the battleground states, and there was one other key element: luck.
Source: The Scotsman
December 20, 2016
Historian Thomas Weber, of the University of Aberdeen, has uncovered evidence that festive meetings continued throughout the war, with a significant number in 1916 despite the huge casualties suffered in the Battle of the Somme.
Source: PBS
December 19, 2016
Lynchings -- unlawful executions used to terrorize and subdue black communities into passivity -- are perhaps one of the least discussed legacies of slavery and the Jim Crow South. A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, will commemorate victims of these acts of terror.
Source: National Security Archive
December 20, 2016
Daily briefings underscored the threats to national security and the propaganda value of rival programs.
Source: Moyers & Company
December 20, 2016
Do we need a new Schoolhouse Rock! to remind us how to run a democracy?
Source: The Day
December 19, 2016
The Post Office will issue a commemorative stamp.
Source: Yahoo
December 20, 2016
The new algorithm is so powerful, it can actually detect three times more cases of plagiarism than the previous version.
Source: The Washington Post
December 19, 2016
German post-war politicians were horrified by the possibility of another fascist populist gaining widespread support among the public. So they decided to make the election of the German president a decision of a Federal Assembly, which meets only for that purpose.
Source: Political Wire
December 16, 2016
Research shows he was far more liberal than any Democratic presidential nominee in modern history.
Source: The Globe and Mail
December 15, 2016
The surveillance program, codenamed “Picnic,” began as an emergency effort during the Korean War, but federal agencies collaborated with telephone companies in 1954 to continue the wiretaps, says Dennis Molinaro, who teaches history at Ontario’s Trent University.
Source: NYT
December 18, 2016
In its 19th-century beginnings, New York Life Insurance sold 508 policies covering slaves. Their descendants are grappling with it.
Source: The Washington Post
December 17, 2016
After 72 years, historians have a new theory.
Source: The Times of Israel
December 16, 2016
After MPs vote to expropriate house, local official says it will be offered to agency working with disabled people.
Source: Politifact
December 15, 2016
Every part of the eye-grabbing headline is wrong.
Source: The Washington Post
December 16, 2016
Non-spouses have played roles like hers in past administrations. None quite like her.
Source: The Washington Post
December 14, 2016
With a series of tweets, phone calls, interviews and statements by surrogates, President-elect Trump has signaled a new, tough policy against China.
Source: CBS News
December 15, 2016
Trump ends the election year with far lower expectations than his two most recent predecessors did.
Source: NPR
December 14, 2016
As President Obama prepares to leave office, 45 percent of Americans think he'll be remembered as an outstanding or above-average president, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
