The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
Blinders on
Anti-facta
Journalism’s know-it-all class Remember that know-it-all classmate we all encountered in school at some time in life? You know, the obnoxious one who had answers to everything all the time and was […]
The narrative
A lesson in how news is spun The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made a huge mistake in the wake of the aerial execution of nearly 100 brown/grizzly bears and a […]
Beam me up
Agendas drive the news Vanity Fair is now running a story suggesting the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico passed on “a Seemingly Bombshell Report About UFOs” for reasons of […]
Clickbait
It’s not just for journalists anymore Researchers examining the thousands of pandemic studies of SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 and related fallout have concluded some scientists might have become as fixated as journalists on attracting […]
Post-truth journalism
Feelings, nothing but feelings… In commenting on the dying credibility of the American mainstream media last week, Matt Taibbi, a one-time reporter for a variety of left-leaning publications and an award-winning […]
Iditarod meltdown
AP pushes wild Alaska global warming claim The difference between journalism today and that of a decade or two back was pretty well writ by the once-reserved Associated Press on Thursday […]
Know it alls
How certitude is destroying media credibility After years of the mainstream media suggesting that the only Americans suspicious that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have come from a Chinese lab leak were […]
The great hypocrisy
There is today one simple action journalists could pursue to improve their credibility, one very simple act. STOP TRYING TO SELL THE IDEA JOURNALISTS ARE SMARTER THAN ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE. Just […]
1,000 cuts
Media credibility in this country is at an all-time low not so much because of big media biases but because of the little errors that make it appear old media doesn’t […]
