BIG Mouth

My social media and news feeds are littered with people celebrating Donald Trump's conviction and hurling all sorts of insults at the former U.S. president. Piling on Trump might feel good in the moment, but I believe that those who direct vitriol at Trump with no intelligent supporting thought are unwittingly improving the likelihood that he will return to the White House this fall. When you attack Donald Trump, you are in effect attacking many millions...

Four years ago, disillusioned with universally irresponsible media coverage and a related increase in societal division and vitriol, I set out to create a trustworthy source of accurate news on the biggest issues. I don’t believe that I am super intelligent, but I am smart enough to recognize that the news media industry was badly broken and that I needed to recruit highly intelligent people with good hearts to help explain the most critical matters. I am...

In a news story that underscores the perils of irresponsible journalism, some officials are blaming news media organizations for the assassination attempt on Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico. In an interview with the BBC, Slovakian Deputy Prime Minister Taraba blamed “false narratives” by opposition parties in Slovakia for the shooting. “Our prime minister several times mentioned in the past that he was afraid that this would happen,” Taraba said. The BBC reported that Slovakia's Interior Minister Matus Sutaj...

A BIG Media subscriber emailed me this morning, asking what he should say to someone who still believes that COVID was one of the top causes of death over the last few years, and that government and medical interventions were effective in reducing harm. After sending the email, I thought that there are probably many people wondering the same thing, so I decided to publish the email verbatim here ... Hey Buddy, Here is a summary looking at the...

Cheering for the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League playoffs at a local pub the other day, I had the pleasure of getting to know a celebrity in the music business. This gentleman, who will not be named in this column, is a true Canadian success story, having produced music that garnered many millions of record sales worldwide. He took his talent down to Los Angeles, carved out a tremendously successful career, then brought his earnings...

I have BIG plans for the little news company that I founded three years ago with renowned data scientist/entrepreneur Laurie Weston and some other brilliant scientists. We have successfully introduced an elevated form of journalism that we believe is desperately needed in the polarized times that come with sensationalism, algorithms, and agenda-driven news reporting employed habitually by our media rivals. Now, we are going to take BIG Media Ltd. global ... because we believe that everyone...

Because much of our coverage flies in the face of narratives promoted by the western world's political and social left, many critics have called us a "far right" news organization. And to a degree, they are correct ... because, so FAR, we have been RIGHT. We were right about COVID lockdowns doing more harm than good – Analysis of excess deaths in 2020 reveals surprising deviations We were right about most excess deaths during the pandemic being among younger, healthier segments...

Speaking last week at the Economic Developers Alberta annual conference about the risks and opportunities that come with the burgeoning realm of artificial intelligence, the room seemed to be evenly split in terms of who appreciated my message and who looked at me as if I were an evil creature from another planet. I took that as a compliment, since three years earlier when we launched BIG-Media.ca, roughly 97% of people thought I was a...

Many millions of educated, rational people in the western world are asking themselves, "How did this happen – how did such foolish and morally bankrupt people get into the highest positions of influence in politics, the medical community, and in the environmental realm?" I believe it is all about the persuadables. Many politicians and high-ranking officials target the unfortunately high percentage of the population that is easily persuaded. They manipulate the persuadables through fear-mongering and orchestrated disinformation...

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a good infographic might be worth about a million. My team of scientist/journalists, with support from infographic wiz Muriel Protzer, has produced many mind-blowingly educational graphics. To follow are some of our best, and I will include no words of interpretation; the data and images tell important stories on their own: Link: copy-infographic-modern-1h0n25y850oxz6p?live"] Source: Alberta government (Alberta data) (Rob Driscoll – BIG Media Ltd., 2024)