I’m done putting up with lies and willful ignorance from people who are unwilling to be logical. I’m done being reasonable with unreasonable people. And I’m done being polite about kids dying.
Freedom of the press means little if audiences are trapped in bubbles
A free press won’t amount to squat as long as it has audiences who hear only what they want to hear, read only what their Facebook-sculpted algorithms tell them to read, and […]
Unnamed sources? Journalists should teach readers why they were used
On Thursday, four journalists for CNN reported: The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to […]
The overlooked battlefield in the war against the press
The war against the press will be fought at the local and state level, but the war at the federal level will get the most airtime. CNN reporter Jeremy Desmond asked Milwaukee […]
CNN (and others) and its overuse of anonymity: There’s more to the story …
First, there’s this headline: Secret Service spoke to Trump campaign about 2nd Amendment comment Then there’s this lede graf: (CNN) — A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS […]
For 2016, re-elect Andrew Shepherd: Fiction trumps the Republican reality
In my favorite bad movie, The American President, Michael Douglas as the fictional President Andrew Shepherd confronts his Republican challenger’s claims about Shepherd’s character. We have serious problems to solve, and we […]
CNN’s ‘Courageous’ — recycling an idea that was bad decades ago
Move along, now. There’s nothing new here. Really. From the Wall Street Journal’s Steven Perlberg: CNN is creating an in-house studio that will produce news-like content on behalf of advertisers, a move […]
The Daily Caller distorts the results of the latest CNN/Gallup poll on global warming
While Bastach quoted extensively from the CNN story about the new poll, his story shows no indication that he dove any deeper than copying and pasting from CNN. When S&R dug into the poll itself, we found that those details reversed several of Bastach’s claims.
Building my own news machine, whether I like it or not
I didn’t realize it until this morning. I have not watched CNN in more than five weeks. Since Ted Turner set loose the Chicken Noodle Network in June 1980, I have watched […]
So you wanna be a citizen journalist? Good luck with that.
Citizen journalist. Citizen journalist? How does that adjective modify journalist? What is a citizen journalist? How does a citizen journalist differ from a plain, ink-stained (or digitally adept), adjective-unfettered journalist? CJs (let’s […]