Mistakes in News

Breaking News from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting:

• Greg Shupak on Syrian Airstrikes
  As corporate media talk about Syria, where a recent airstrike by the US, legality be damned, is meant to represent the US doing the right thing in the world, are the principles supposedly guiding US i… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• ‘People Have to Strengthen the Laws Protecting the Water’
  "Before the Flint crisis, the state had cut Flint off of revenue-sharing money that could have been used to fix their infrastructure. They get money taken away from them. Nestlé gets profits give… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• ‘We Need to Change the Rules for When Police Can Shoot’
  "The Constitution, as this Supreme Court has interpreted it, does not require officers to use deadly force [only] as a last resort."
• Public Radio’s McCarthyite Smear of Black Activists Shows Danger of Russia Panic
  The Russia-Is-Everywhere-and-Out-to-Get-US narrative has reached its inevitable, sleazy nadir: the smearing of a black activist by an NPR affiliate for the crime of going on a Russian government–funde… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• NYT: Don’t Be Progressive, Be a ‘Liberal’
  An op-ed about why Democrats should call themselves "liberals" and not "progressives" hits most of the main points of the New York Times' ideology.

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Breaking News from the Center for Media and Democracy:

• Coal Lobbyist Hosted Fundraisers for Senators Evaluating His Nomination for Top EPA Post
• Koch Demands Corporate Welfare From One of America’s Poorest Cities
• ALEC's Corporate Sponsors Top Nation's Lawbreaker List
• Pruitt Emails Reveal Communications with ALEC and Koch Groups
• Election Losses Don’t Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes

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Breaking News from Columbia Journalism Review:

• Economic Hardship Reporting Project to fund work by laid-off Denver Post staffers
  AFTER 21 YEARS at The Denver Post, Jason Blevins, the paper’s one-man mountain bureau, is now pitching stories as an independent journalist without the assurances of a full-time paycheck. “In the past… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class
  On Monday afternoon, Mariel Padilla, a master’s student at Columbia Journalism School, sat around a table with classmates, listening to Professor Giannina Segnini lead a discussion about email encrypt… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• A new manual for writers and journalists experiencing harassment online
  Novelist and editor Stephanie Feldman was at work when she first learned that her identity had been stolen. Except in her case, it wasn’t a Social Security number or banking information the culprit wa… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• An election in Hungary sounds a death knell for the free press
  Nearly two weeks ago, Hungary’s far-right governing party, Fidesz, won a crushing victory in national elections, further strengthening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s tight grip on power. Orbán has grad… (Click on article title to continue reading)
• Iowa newspaper uses an escape room to solve the profit puzzle
  DAN BELLOWS IS JUST A GUY in Iowa who loves a good puzzle. He enjoys crosswords and riddles, and even likes to hide his kids’ Christmas presents and leave them clues for finding them. But the puzzle t… (Click on article title to continue reading)