Mistakes in News
Breaking News from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting:
- ‘Millions of People Will Lose Their Coverage Under Whatever Comes Out’
"The public is thirsting for more information. I think they are not being fooled one bit about the spin and all this sort of stuff that’s going on…. What they want to know is how these changes… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Eager for World War III on MSNBC
The US hasn't done "a very good job pushing Russia out of the way," said MSNBC's Jeremy Bash, implying it would be a good idea to target a country that only months ago was reported… (Click on article title to continue reading) - To Defeat Transparency, NYPD Turns to Journalist-Turned-Cop-Turned-Journalist-Turned-Cop
The biggest, most resourced police department in the world likes to work in the shadows. You want to question that? You're probably a terrorist enabler. - Wishful Thinking in Defense of Democrats’ Pro-Business Politics
Jonathan Chait's argument is that the voters who switched from Obama to Trump had conservative social views—so if Democrats need to do anything to win in 2020, they should move to the right on ra… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Media Use Attack on Mosque to Smear Mosque
CNN, the New York Times, Daily Mail and News.com.au all decided to use last night’s horrific attack on London’s Finsbury Park Mosque welfare center as a chance to litigate the mosque’s past behavior…. (Click on article title to continue reading)
Breaking News from the Center for Media and Democracy:
- Pruitt Emails Reveal Communications with ALEC and Koch Groups
- Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes
- Trump Urged to Put Nation Before Family Profits
- Bayer Makes Deal With GMO Giant Monsanto
- Highlights of Luntz Poll of American CEOs Shows Broad Support for Progressive Policies
Breaking News from Columbia Journalism Review:
- Telling stories that show ‘real life-or-death consequences’ of health care bill
THE BETTER CARE RECONCILIATION ACT—the Senate GOP’s version of the American Health Care Act—may be the most anticipated and least understood piece of legislation put forth by Republican lawmaker… (Click on article title to continue reading) - Q&A: Ira Glass on structuring stories, asking hard questions
A great interview is one of the journalist’s most powerful tools. For the next five weeks, the Columbia Journalism Review and MaximumFun.org will broadcast conversations with some of the world’s great… (Click on article title to continue reading) - SCOOP! Flood of ‘scoops’ dilutes value of real exclusives
A few weeks ago, the columnists for Politico Playbook alerted readers about a big exclusive. “SCOOP,” they tweeted. “Trump hosting Capitol Hill Republicans.” The same day, the Playbook team tweeted an… (Click on article title to continue reading) - This survey is as murky as chocolate milk
Last week, a Washington Post headline provoked a collective groan of embarrassment: apparently “seven percent of all American adults” think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Unsur… (Click on article title to continue reading) - An unlikely big player in digital media: unions
The axe fell at HuffPost the other day. The news site laid off dozens of staffers, in what has became a painful, disruptive—and depressingly familiar—ritual of online journalism. In recent months, lay… (Click on article title to continue reading)