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September 20th, 2022 - 4:23 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
More proof Fox isn’t a news organization
Journalism, like other professions, has standards. Don’t call yourself a new organization if you don’t adhere to them. A new book by New York Times journalists says Fox personality Bret Baier tried to pressure his superiors to rescind Fox News’ decision desk call of Arizona for Bid[...]
Why the Fox reporter shouldn’t have tried to diagnose Biden on the air
Because she made an ass of herself, that’s why. Just a few weeks ago, Fox News medical correspondent Marc Siegel, M.D., wrote this (here): “Americans have come to falsely believe that we can evaluate our leaders based on TV snippets. Some doctors too easily fall into this trap, too, but [...]
Florida school lesson
The handout below surfaced in a Florida sixth-grade class. It’s not an approved lesson. It was created by a teacher, on his own initiative, and distributed to students by a substitute. The school subsequently got complaints from parents (see story here). Let’s examine this. “Presid[...]
September 1st, 2022 - 6:43 pm § in News Media, Politics
Fox vs. News
How Fox “reported” a story (here): “Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman hired two convicted murderers to work for his campaign, and his Republican opponent in the state’s November election, Mehmet Oz, claims it shows he is soft on crime. “Dennis and L[...]
Wanna watch some political porn?
From the Guardian (here): “The most recent salvo in the campaign to make Hunter’s lost laptop the new Hillary’s emails may, at least, bring about a moment of joy for the rest of us. Available for download from 7 September, the movie My Son Hunter is a piece of political [trash] porn dedica[...]
August 27th, 2022 - 12:32 am § in News Media
The Un-News: What didn’t happen the week of 8/27/22
A Pfizer report doesn’t show its Covid-19 vaccine caused miscarriages in drug trials. Fentanyl didn’t become the leading cause of death in the U.S. Congress didn’t exempt its members from IRS audits. Florida didn’t ban “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Read details of thes[...]
How to deal with GOP fantasies
The world is a cacophony of noise, and we learn to tune it out. My professional background is news reporting and law; so I was trained to be careful about factual accuracy, and reach conclusions by a process of fact-based reasoning. In my lines of work, getting the facts right mattered. But then, th[...]
Did Fox commit libel against the search warrant judge?
While filling in for Tucker Carlson on Thursday, August 11, 2022, Fox host Brian Kilmeade displayed a doctored photo of federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart “having his feet massaged by convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell and holding Oreo cookies and alcohol” on Jeffrey Epstein’s[...]