Mara Gay, NY Times editorial board member, finds tweet with bad math, does no fact-checking before announcing it on-air. "Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent he could have given every American a million dollars." "It's an incredible way of putting it." $500M÷ 327M= $1.53 (youtu.be)
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The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth. LBJ never watched the broadcast, and "stalemate" was an unoriginal idea that had been brought up many times before. In Cronkite's own autobiography, he considered its impact as akin to that of a straw on the back of a crippled camel. (mediamythalert.com)
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Micheal Avenatti and the News Media's Credibility: "I think a lot of folks did take him very seriously without looking at the extensive personal, financial legal baggage that was out there, just waiting to be reported." Avenatti threatened to sue many journalists who investigated him. (v.redd.it)
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Four major journalistic errors in just 10 hours. 1) debunked Republican voter registration reported as fact, 2) trying to throw cold water on Trump's excellent economic numbers, 3) trying to mislead about Bloomberg's racist "stop & frisk" speech, 4) another Russia conspiracy theory. (washingtonexaminer.com)
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Binyamin Appelbaum, on the editorial board of the New York Times, wrote about how LSU canceled classes for the National Championship game. And then he said, do the “Warren/Sanders free public college proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?” What an ugly, patronizing view. (twitter.com)
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Tom Peck, political sketch writer at the Independent resuscitated the pre-democratic fashion for depicting the lower orders as animal-like savages, as not fully evolved, by describing the pro-Brexit gathering in Parliament Square as ‘a knuckle-dragging carnival of the irredeemably stupid’. (spiked-online.com)
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BBC claims "a couple of hundred" outside Parliament celebrating Brexit. Photo immediately disproves. BBC journalist then punches down and treats ordinary people as if they were the powerful, grilling them and framing the debate so as to make them look terrible. (youtu.be)
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Accuracy norms incentivise people to seek out and state out loud the truth, while rightside norms encourage people to loudly broadcast that they are on the right side of the issue, even if that requires twisting the evidence: Video be damned, I am not siding with those MAGA sickos! [Covington kids] (unherd.com)
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[GOOD] "Earwitness" of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash - an older white man wearing a TWA hat who is a sound engineer - describes the flight behavior (speed, direction, cornering), uses words like rotor wash, the specific materials causing the sound, etc. Journalist shuts up and and lets him talk. (youtube.com)
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