media criticism

After the Brian Williams kerfluffle, I am surprised no one had brought up Bill O'Reilly's spat with David Corn and Mother Jones Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem As the article points out, what O'Reilly could not have seen the things he claims to have seen in Argentina, because...

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/10/sam_brownbacks_latest_outrage_governor_strips_lgbt_state_employees_of_non_discrimination_protections/ Great guy.

I need one place to keep my Fox bizarro posts. Fox host: FEMA is unnecessary because Walmart will ‘spontaneously’ save us all in a disaster Continues.

The end comes for Brian Williams and his "conflating" the fact that he was actually NOT on a helicopter hit by an RPG. http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html Should I be more surprised that a journalist would lie or...

I was watching a show on THC about Gettysburg. Amazingly they repeated several myths. They claimed that the battle began because Confederate soldiers were looking for shoes. There was no shoe factory or warehouse in Gettysburg. The Confederate soldiers would have had to have been incredibly...

I know that we all on this forum are of various political and cultural stripes, and yet it is our belief in rational thinking and skepticism that binds us together. Based on this principal, can we please all agree that Fox News is bad for humanity? Not Hannity - humanity. If you don't agree...

The full list so far, from Age to Zebra Toys. Beware, extreme stupidity.

I go to McDonalds a lot and that is what they all have on their flat screens 24/7. Basically Fox news is full on conservative hosts who spend a great deal of time reading all the hate mail they get as proof that they are doing a good job. Are there many Fox news lovers here I wonder? How many...

I'm a bit surprised to see such blatant sexism on TV in 2014. https://hollywoodlife.com/2014/06/27/matt-lauer-mary-barra-interview-general-motors-ceo/ No one would ask a male CEO if he's spending enough time with his children. Besides, what business is it of yours anyway? We are concerned...

Apparently, CNBC was soliciting for an economist to write a report finding that global warming was a hoax in anticipation of what was going to be found in (since-released) bipartisan The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States Report. They sent this request, however, to deSmog...

The New York Times is styled the "Paper of Record." I buy and read both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal several times every week. The same incident was reported in both papers recently; the differing treatment was troubling. The facts as reported by NYT: A contractor working for...

A Phoenix woman is accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton at a Las Vegas convention appearance on Friday. The shoe was thrown from a distance of about sixty feet and missed its intended target. The thirty-six-year-old woman was then arrested by Secret Service agents and turned over to Las...

I don't have a transcript of today's episode of Morning Edition on NPR, but the audio is here: (Warning: Will autoplay when loaded) http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=286646561&m=286646571&live=1 The program opens right at 00:00, with the claim, "A...

Jimmy Kimmel does it again! He quite succesfully pulled off a hoax, claiming that wolves (or a wolf) were roaming the Russian Olympic Village, at least according to Olympic Luger Kate Hansen: http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2014/02/must-see-behind-the-scenes-vid.php What I find most...

I read this article months ago; about the NRA and firearms. http://www.salon.com/2012/12/30/silencers_the_nras_latest_big_lie/ It was written for Salon by Alexander Zaitchik I wrote a lengthy letter to the author detailing the errors he made in it. To my surprise he replied. It seems that I...

Says it all:

When it was leaked (what else) on Tuesday that Glenn Greenwald will leave The Guardian for a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity" it was not yet clear what that opportunity might be, but as of today we know that he, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill will help create an all new and...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/01/foxs-cal-thomas-predicts-collapse-of-civilizati/194710 Yep, the end of the world because of gay rights, because of creator this and creator that. I wonder if he meant the Dreamtime or the Garuda Bird?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/mr-rogers_n_3516001.html?utm_hp_ref=politics Wow, it upset a few people. I had to redact the first URL I found for banned words! http://disinfo.com/2010/05/fox-news-calls-mister-rogers-an-evil-man/ You know, that's just special.

I have read a pieces of news this morning about Iran and their ongoing nuclear program. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/22/staunch-anti-american-saeed-jalili-an-early-favorite-in-irans-presidential-race/ Once again, I have been struck by the blatant bias of US "news...

The news is nothing unusual: Saudi Arabia has executed five Yemenis convicted of murder and committing a series of robberies. Their bodies were left hanging in public following the execution in the south-western town of Jizan, near the Yemen border. Murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking...

CNN has an article on a gamma-ray burst from GRB130427A, which is a farily intereresting read: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/opinion/urry-gamma-ray-burst/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 However, it is categorized as an opinion piece. I thought this was a little odd, so I looked through it to see if...

ObU7awpJctQ 1. Props to Nye for not laughing out loud to such an amazingly ignorant question. No way I could have kept it together. 2. Maybe CNN should tilt the table a bit more towards "brains" instead of "beauty" when it comes to grading anchor applicants. 3. More evidence of the dumbing...

A very insightful article into how medical research gets translated and, more importantly mistranslated, into the popular press and culture. Columbia Journalism Review Survival of the Wrongest How personal-health journalism ignores the fundamental pitfalls baked into all scientific research...

Check this out: http://front.moveon.org/this-is-not-the-response-fox-news-expected-when-this-interview-started/ Fox News interviews a Pulitzer-winning author to talk about Benghazi, and he promptly slams their coverage of the subject.

The crowd-sourced campaigning organisation Avaaz has started a website called The Daily Briefing (link below) which looks like being a refreshing opportunity to get a wider and more in-depth view of current affairs than can be had from the corporate sponsored mainstream news channels, (whether...

ABC's Brian Ross an alleged journalist "reporter" attempted to smear the Tea Party with the Batman shooting betraying its inherent liberal bias by simply finding the name John Holmes listed as a Tea Party member. Ross had to eat crow on that journalistic coup which he simply drummed up by...

http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-barack-obama-attack-ad-2012-5#ixzz1wU3YoctF I can hear it now, "But...but...but...CNN does this stuff!" Like pro wrestling managers who "have no idea" that the wrestler brought an illegal foreign object into the ring, Fox News "management" knew...

Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html Love is beautiful, the second time around....