Any other network would fire Jesse Waters (photo, left) for his recent speech to a rightwing group, but not Fox. Speaking to a partisan crowd about Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the federal infectious diseases agency, he said, “Now you’re going for the kill shot. The kill shot with an a[...]
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December 24th, 2021 - 4:15 pm § in News Media
The Un-News: What didn’t happen the week of 12/24/21
An Italian police barracks that burned down wasn’t being used to store vaccines. Dr. Fauci’s sister didn’t publish a book about Omicron before it was discovered. The New York legislature isn’t voting on a bill to detain unvaccinated people. Scientists didn’t say “[...]
Brian Williams signs off from MSNBC (video)
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December 8th, 2021 - 8:43 pm § in Misc., News Media
Man arrested for lighting Fox News Christmas tree (video)
“It appears that our giant Christmas tree there just a couple of minutes ago was completely engulfed in flames,” a Fox News anchor said (see story here). To go up that fast, it had to be mighty flammable. Doesn’t NYC have fire regulations? A man seen running from the tree was arrested.[...]
University of Washington Magazine, December 2021, article links
This is the official quarterly publication of the U.W. Alumni Association, and can be found online here. Articles in the current issue include: Legal Relief – A U.W. program works with prison inmates serving long sentences for crimes committed as juveniles to help them secure release and aid t[...]
December 4th, 2021 - 11:34 pm § in News Media
CNN sacks Cuomo for misconduct
CNN abruptly “terminated” news anchor Chris Cuomo, “effective immediately,” for violating journalistic standards by using his position to help his embattled — and now disgraced — brother, ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, gather information about the women accusing h[...]
November 23rd, 2021 - 7:03 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Why newspaper hacks aren’t judges
“THERE SHOULD BE NO BAIL!” “FURY AT JUDGE FOR SETTING $5M BOND FOR XMAS PARADE KILLER” Scream the headlines at the Daily Mail, a sleazy U.K.-based tabloid that is not owned by Rupert Murdoch, which makes it a very rare duck among sleazy tabloids, because he seems to own them [...]
The stupid things journalists write
“The Perseverance rover took a well-deserved break in October during solar conjunction, but it’s back to investigating intriguing rocks in Jezero Crater on Mars,” CNN correspondent Ashley Strickland wrote in an article posted on Thursday, November 11, 2021. Or, out of an abundance [...]
Trumper faces prison for threats against families of journalists
A California man “upset about President Biden’s victory” pleaded guilty on Friday, October 16, 2021, to “making threatening interstate communications to a journalist’s relative living in New York,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The journalist was George Stephanopo[...]
Kayleigh McEnany is a ninny
I first saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV several years ago, when she was a CNN on-air commentator. I assumed she was hired to bring conservative “balance” to their talk shows. I was immediately unimpressed. She seemed too young and inexperienced to know much about the world, too shallow to say[...]