What’s left of New Republic’s credibility sinks into pit: Beauchamp story falls apart
Surprise, surprise. This, on top of the Army’s internal investigation which debunked “Scott Thomas”‘ claims in the first place.
The media’s dereliction of duty in the Jena 6 case
By now we are all familiar with the mainstream media’s penchant for sloppy, sometimes non-existent factchecking, in addition to their exaggerations and lies (some of them deliberate), which all lead to news reports that – instead of informing the people as they are supposed to, grossly misinform the reader which, in turn, leads to mininformation being spread across the country (and world) as “fact” – and at that point, a popular myth is born, a myth that rarely gets revisited by the very journalists who aided in creating it in the first place. And even in the rare cases they do revisit, it’s usually too late. The damage has already been done.
How one New York City network covered two alleged “hate crimes”
Two so-called “hate crimes” were alleged to have happened recently in NYC and NJ, and are currently under investigation. But how were they covered in the press?
Michael Yon: What the media won’t tell you
We’ve all become familiar with the wonderful work of frontlines-blogger/writer/photographer Michael Yon over the years. So many times he has brought to life the stories of soldiers and civilians in Iraq that the media ignores in favor of their “if it bleeds, it leads” news mantra. Yon doesn’t sugarcoat his stories – he just gives the perspective we so often don’t see in the MSM.
Poll Scamming
(I’m filling in for ST the next few days. You can read more of my work at my blog, Liberty Pundit.)
Liberal media desperation story of the week
The liberal McClatchy news site reports that business “isn’t good” for one cemetary in Iraq, as a result of the surge: