by Alberto CG August 3, 2019
Get the Rose filtermug. Mass media "filters" filtered out new stories and facts that are presented in major local, regional, national and international news media outlets. The five classes of media "filters" are:
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
The reporter could not get past the media filters with his highly controversial stories, even though they were well documented and fact-checked.
by mlhiss December 15, 2019
Get the media filtermug. The protective discomfort that comes from viewing pre-Covid television shows and movies through the lens of currently necessary social/physical distancing and mask-wearing. Feeling distracted or distressed by characters that share food and drinks, talk closely, don't distance or wear masks.
I had a hard time turning off my Covid filter when watching Dirty Dancing. Everybody was just too close together and breathing each other's air.
by cchat November 21, 2020
Get the Covid filtermug. A.k.a. "mustache". Refers to where you are imbibing Pure Leaf tea or other liquid-libation which contains yucky dregs that you'd just as soon not hafta gag down while quenching your thirst, and so you angle your head back and slowly pour the beverage onto your mustache so that your Fu Manchu bristles catch most of the drink's offending particulate while allowing the refreshing liquid part to seep down through your upper-lip caterpillar and into your open mouth. Depending on the quantity and concentration of said sludgy sediments, you may need to pause frequently to wipe off the accumulated residues from your 'stache with a paper towel, but this minor inconvenience is small potatoes compared to the acute tongue/throat discomfort of having to actually ingest said stringy/gelatinous goo along with your flavorful fluid!
Utilizing your facial-fur filter takes some practice, but just like the upper-lip valve method of swigging your bottled whistle-wetter, this technique can indeed be perfected through careful and frequent employment, and allow you to guzzle your drink "cleanly"; i.e., without gagging or spilling anything on your shirt.
by QuacksO October 21, 2019
Get the facial-fur filtermug. A simple tool to make sure that any important e-mail that from a sender you have not previously whitelisted will be hidden from sight, while most of the emails that still make it to your inbox will still be spam.
A device that saves no one any time if you want to catch all of your important mail from non-white listed senders, because you still have to manually search through all of the spam to check for the important e-mails within.
If the post office implemented a similar spam filter, your tax refunds and stimulus checks would not be delivered and unless you went in person to the post office to check through your spam, it would be put into the shredder after 30 days.
A device that saves no one any time if you want to catch all of your important mail from non-white listed senders, because you still have to manually search through all of the spam to check for the important e-mails within.
If the post office implemented a similar spam filter, your tax refunds and stimulus checks would not be delivered and unless you went in person to the post office to check through your spam, it would be put into the shredder after 30 days.
- Sorry, I didn't get your e-mail because my spam filter blocked it.
- Thank you for calling tech support. You were sent the license key. Please check your spam folder and change your spam filter settings to whitelist us.
- My spam filter blocked the job offer letter I got from the company and when I called them back 5 days later they already filled the position.
- Thank you for calling tech support. You were sent the license key. Please check your spam folder and change your spam filter settings to whitelist us.
- My spam filter blocked the job offer letter I got from the company and when I called them back 5 days later they already filled the position.
by CyberSlumlord September 11, 2021
Get the Spam Filtermug. Filter vs Reality - What you see on social media isn't real life, and don't let these filters fool you. A filter called 'Filter v Reality'; when used, it applies a filter to one half of your face and leaves the other bare to highlight 'Reality'.
by Filter vs Reality November 22, 2021
Get the Filter vs Realitymug. A military punishment in which a shower trough is plugged and flooded, and then a full platoon is required to ejaculate into the flooded shower. The individual being punished must then suck in the water through their teeth, filtering the semen from the water. The punishment is complete when the water passes a black light examination and is cum free.
PFC Lesiecki only took 6 hours and 17 minutes to complete the filter feeder punishment. It’s a new record!!
by JohnDoeTheMan July 23, 2025
Get the The Filter Feedermug.