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 16, 2019
the act of collecting urine in a cup and then squatting below the vagina of a female with a crab infestation in her pubic hair. The female will then proceed to slowly pour the urine down her stomach area until it trickles though the infested bush, the ‘filter feeder’ will be waiting mouth agape to collect the lice+urine solution until either the mouth is full or cup is empty, the point in which they will subsequently follow
‘mate this bird i was with the other night was up for some nasty shit, she had me filter feeding at the end of her bed’
by the filter feeder February 10, 2025
Similar to other sex acts known as coffee filter but with a dramatic twist reusing the undies for an actual coffee filter
Charl: I was giving Davit a real coffee filter with the Taco Bell I had eaten and stained up my tighty whities good. After our sexual frenzy was over I washed out the tighty whities and since they were already stained I used them to filter my coffee grounds in the percolator because I had run out of paper ones.
Winks: sounds like you invented the Keyser Coffee Filter. A nice mix of poo and dark roast caffeine!
Winks: sounds like you invented the Keyser Coffee Filter. A nice mix of poo and dark roast caffeine!
by Esterlino Dorado February 18, 2022
by Alberto CG August 04, 2019
by Alberto CG August 04, 2019
To reconsider advice given by a so-called "expert." Rather than listen to a man’s advice, a woman can consider his more optimal replacement.
by whoisthepoet August 18, 2016
A pejorative term typically used by 4chan users on the Video Games board to indicate the subject has been victim of a casual filter. It is typically used facetiously to call someone bad at a game as an insult. Can be used in other contexts, e.g. calling oneself bad at the game.
See also "casual filter"; "skill issue"
See also "casual filter"; "skill issue"
-"Game is fun when you don't get insta-killed by some random enemy off-screen at the end of your run"
-"Filtered"
-"Hey guy this game filtered me pretty hard, can someone offer me tips so I can stop being trash?"
-"Filtered"
-"Hey guy this game filtered me pretty hard, can someone offer me tips so I can stop being trash?"
by Extimous July 24, 2023