Mistakes in News
Breaking News from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting:
- WaPo: Trump Needs to Destroy Venezuela to Save It
Tamara Taraciuk Broner of Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins professor Kathleen Page took to the pages of the Washington Post to whitewash Donald Trump’s successful efforts to make Venezuela’s econo… (Click on article title to continue reading) - ‘The Pentagon Has Steadfastly Stonewalled Against Making Its Budget Auditable’ – CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Pentagon budget fraud
"The goal is to paralyze Congress and paralyze the media, not to be able to ask questions about the Pentagon budget, because you can't understand it." - Police Drones Expand as Media Shrink
Media's propensity to serve as stenographers and lapdogs for law enforcement is nothing new. But the coverage of the NYPD's drone roll-out is particularly egregious, because of how the move… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Paul Rosenberg on GOP Power Grabs, Mariana Viturro on Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
GOP maneuvers reacting to electoral results they don't like, with overt power grabs that override the express will of voters, define "anti-democratic"—and they rely on a lack of public… (Click on article title to continue reading) - William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
You know you’ve lived well—well enough to rattle the establishment—when the New York Times smears you in the obituary it runs about you (FAIR.org, 6/20/13). That distinction was achieved by Wi… (Click on article title to continue reading)
Breaking News from the Center for Media and Democracy:
- The Koch Brothers' Freedom Partners Group Spends $115.2 Million in 2017
- Heavy-Handed Industry Maneuver to Crush Soda and Grocery Taxes Is on Oregon Ballot
- Democrats Reintroduce DISCLOSE Act to Combat Dark Money "Poison"
- Coal Lobbyist Hosted Fundraisers for Senators Evaluating His Nomination for Top EPA Post
- Koch Demands Corporate Welfare From One of America’s Poorest Cities
Breaking News from Columbia Journalism Review:
- NPR’s move into podcasting analytics raises privacy concerns
Until recently, it hasn’t been easy to measure the success of podcasts, beyond how many people download them—a metric so broad as to be almost useless, much like page views are on the web. In th… (Click on article title to continue reading) - CBS denied Les Moonves a payout. But it isn’t off the hook.
Les Moonves is getting nothing. Yesterday, the board of CBS—where Moonves resigned as chairman and CEO in September after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct—announced it was firing Moonve… (Click on article title to continue reading) - What I’ve learned reporting about Lyme Disease, a contested illness
As Jeff Wheelwright began researching his book about Gulf War Syndrome, he planned to speak to suffering veterans and medical experts who were skeptical those ailments were real. But the first veteran… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Jonathan Albright on the new Senate report, and the importance of Instagram to Russian disinformation
After laboring in secret for months, a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee names a culprit more useful on a user-for-user basis to Russian espionage services than Facebook or… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Malaysia’s R.AGE builds a business from advocacy journalism
In mid-2016, R.AGE—a team of millennial reporters based at The Star, Malaysia’s largest English-language paper—released a documentary on sex crimes against children. Called “Predator in my Phone,” it… (Click on article title to continue reading)