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[...]
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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[...]
August 9th, 2022 - 6:11 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media
Stupid talking point
“If they can do it to a former President, they can do it to you.” They sure can. All they need is a search warrant, and to get one, all they need is probable cause that I’ve committed a crime. Fox isn’t a news organization, it’s a talking-points factory, and they’[...]
July 29th, 2022 - 2:01 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Judge tosses MAGAteen’s lawsuits against news media
“Nicholas Sandmann … has lost his defamation lawsuits against several media companies,” Insider reported on Friday, July 29, 2022 (story here). “A federal judge struck the cases filed by Sandmann against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, NBC Universal Media, Rolling Sto[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 9:53 pm § in News Media
Gun violence in America (video)
This NBC News special report aired on Sunday, July 17, 2022. https://youtu.be/72tBUO7fkrQ Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Why should anyone take Fox seriously?
Parsing today’s dramatic Jan. 6 testimony, Fox News commentator Martha MacCallum remarked (story here), “I’m not sure that it really shocks anybody that the president, just knowing what we’ve seen, observing him over the years if he got angry, that he might throw his lunch.” While [...]
What Tucker Carlson thinks an “insurrection” is
After noting that, “Several crew members filming a comedy segment at the U.S. Capitol for ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ were charged with unlawful entry earlier this week,” Huffington Post says Tucker Carlson claimed on his show, “Last night, producers from Steph[...]
June 14th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in News Media, Politics
More proof Fox is a propaganda, not a news, network
Veteran journalist Chris Stirewalt (bio here) “was working Fox News’ decision desk on Election Night 2020,” and called Arizona for Biden, before any other network. That incensed Trump and his allies, and Fox fired him for it. “Stirewalt’s reporting was totally accurate,” [...]