The credentialed media setting the terms of the debate is fake news
Alisyn Camarota interviewed “Gavin” Grimm on CNN’s New Day this morning, and Miss Camarota treated Miss Grimm like any other boy. Trouble is, Miss Grimm is not a boy. From The New York Times: Bathroom...
View ArticleThe subtlety of #FakeNews
At 7:46 AM EST this morning, CNN’s New Day was running a story about black Americans joining gun clubs in increasing numbers, when I spotted the caption under the visual: African-Americans are only 19%...
View ArticleLies, damned lies, and statistics
There it was, tucked away, in the (figurative) corner of an opinion article about the travails of homosexual men living with HIV: I am constantly being thanked, even by people in the street stopping...
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Not exactly #FakeNews but written to deceive
From The New York Times: State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Nikki Haley’s Residence By Gardiner Harris | September 13, 2018 WASHINGTON — The State Department spent $52,701 last year buying...
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#MediaBias: The New Yorker tries to delegitimize President Trump’s victory...
This was the tweet: 80,000 votes in 3 states put Trump in the White House. Now a meticulous analysis of online activity during the campaign makes a powerful case that cyberattacks by Russian hackers...
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When even the truth can be #FakeNews
Poppy Harlow, a midmorning host on CNN, sent out a completely truthful tweet yesterday, of the reaction by the New York Police Department to the fake mail bomb scare: Police clearing the zone — moving...
View ArticleHold them accountable! Pathetic law enforcement in Dallas, and some #FakeNews...
Yesterday I wrote about the case of Hugo Villanueva-Morales, one of the alleged killers in the Kansas City, Kansas Tequila KC bar mass shooting, and how he should have been in prison at the time of the...
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The Philadelphia City Council moves further left; what could possibly go wrong?
It is arguable that foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia is already so f(ornicated) up that it can’t be made much worse, but some new City Councilmen are going to try. From The Philadelphia...
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All the News That’s Fit to Print: How The New York Times slants the news
Many conservatives said that simply releasing criminals due to COVID-19 wasn’t a good idea, but the left seemed to think it was just fine. From the New York Post: Dozens of NYC inmates back in jail...
View ArticleThe Washington Post settles with Nicholas Sandmann . . . but denies any...
Nicholas Sandmann was a student at Covington Catholic High School in Covington, Kentucky, on a school trip to our nation’s capital when Indian activist Nathan Phillips approached him after part of a...
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#FakeNews: CNN tries to make one of the men killed in Kenosha look as pure as...
When I first saw this article, linked on Twitter, I assumed that it was an early one, posted before the facts were in. I was wrong; it was posted Friday. The 26-year-old man killed in Kenosha shooting...
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No #FakeNews here, huh?
The Washington Post tweeted: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has sought to ban mask mandates in schools, tests positive for the coronavirus https://t.co/0IyU4bU42l — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost)...
View ArticleA few real journalists challenge the #woke journolism of the credentialed media
Bari Weiss is not a conservative; she’s very liberal in her politics, though just plain not #woke[1]From Wikipedia: Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived...
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Journolism: ignoring the “Five Ws + H” in reporting due to political correctness
Despite having spent two years on the staff of the Kentucky Kernel, the University of Kentucky’s student newspaper, I was never a journalism major. That does not mean that I have been completely...
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The pot calling the kettle black: Jenice Armstrong tells us that cable news...
I have said it many times before: I prefer to read the news rather than listen to it on radio or watch it on television. Part of that is because I have very degraded hearing, and part of it is because...
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If it’s a gang, say it’s a gang!
The main page of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s website had, at 7:07 PM EDT on Sunday, June 25th, an interesting juxtaposition. The site seems to automatically search for and note related stories, and had...
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