If top editors and reporters of the New York Times were to be convicted and sent to a federal penitentiary, as the lawyers writing at Power Line speculate could happen, would that make the New York Times a criminal organization? ... READ MORE
The often-hilarious Regret The Error blog, which reprints corrections from newspapers, has a post up January 6 revealing how various publications explained misreporting the miner story to their readers ... READ MORE
One of my top media pet peeves is when a journalist explains away criticism by saying something along these lines: "We got an equal number of complaints from liberals and conservatives, so we aren't concerned." Think again, dweebo. It may ... READ MORE
Hat tipped by this interesting post on global warming on The Political Dogs blog, I ran into this detailed post also on global warming on the Fundamentally Right blog. Whereupon, I saw that the proprietor of Fundamentally Right is descended ... READ MORE
A John M. Broder January 6 New York Times article contains this: Mr. Schwarzenegger used the speech to propose policies intended to appeal to working families and moderate voters, who all but abandoned him last year as he pursued a ... READ MORE
Proving once again that it is comfortable with letting its writers pontificate without the intervention of fact-checkers and editors, the Washington Post announces the creation of a Washington Post radio station, which it will use to promote itself ... READ MORE
In letters to Editor and Publisher, writers who seem suspiciously like paid journalists complain that the false "miners are rescued story" is not the news media's fault. The Governor made them do it. That must be why Geraldo Rivera appeared ... READ MORE
Here's a story from Editor and Publisher in which some editors apologize for false coverage of the miner story, while others defend their inaccurate reporting. Notice in these snippets (the E&P article has more) that the "prestige newspapers" seem less ... READ MORE
Rush Limbaugh was really on a roll today, talking about the news media's accuracy level. It's better heard than read (go here for transcript, here for audio/video archives) as Rush tends to be, but worth it either way. A tiny ... READ MORE
Just for fun, I put the words "apologize" and "miner" in Google News to see if any news outlets had run the phrase "we apologize for falsely reporting the miners were rescued alive," or something similar. One hit. Admittedly, Google ... READ MORE
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