This book sounds like it’s worth reading: “My research churned up not mere errors or inaccuracies but whole-cloth falsehoods,” Rindsberg writes in “The Gray Lady Winked” (Midnight Oil), out now, which examines how the nation’s premier media outlet manipulates what … Continue reading →
Today I noticed this headdline at Hot Air: “The media’s lab leak debacle shows why banning ‘misinformation’ is a bad idea.” No, it most assuredly does not show that, although banning misinformation is indeed a bad idea because misinformation is … Continue reading →
Creative lies such as these: The New York Times posted the photo of a child who allegedly died in Gaza in 2021, in fighting between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza and fired thousands of rockets into Israel. But it … Continue reading →
I really don’t know what’s most astounding about this story. Is it the fact that it appeared in Vanity Fair, of all places? Is it the fact that it appeared at all? Or is it the fact that the secret … Continue reading →
This is the way the WaPo rolls (by Treacher): But now, with Trump out of office and the pandemic winding down, more and more people are asking the same question. Suddenly, it’s acceptable to ask what the hell is going … Continue reading →
For over a year the left promoted the idea that COVID emerged accidentally in the wild, and called every challenge to that notion a debunked and ridiculous conspiracy theory. But recently – for reasons that remain someone obscure but about … Continue reading →
The headline reads, “It’s not just Arizona: Push to review 2020 ballots spreads.” Could have been an interesting and informative article. But the AP, under the guise of news, has published a piece that basically says, “A bunch of right-wing … Continue reading →
There are fashions in words, and “debunked” has been the word of the day for the MSM during the Trump administration. It came to mean something like this: “A viewpoint we don’t like and that reflects poorly on the left … Continue reading →
…after having been “debunked” for such a long time. I think when “debunked” is used by the MSM, the social media woke, and the left in general, it should now should be translated as “pay no attention to that man … Continue reading →
Like for example this: Imagine if Donald Trump had jokingly threatened to murder journalists standing in front of him. They probably wouldn’t have laughed. Yet that’s what Joe Biden did on Tuesday and the assembled reporters just chuckled at the … Continue reading →
Joe Concha is correct here [my emphasis]: This is a “silence of the lambs” moment for media, an industry that should be universally up in arms over the censoring of public figures or other news outlets like the New York … Continue reading →
Here’s another excerpt (you can find an earlier one here) from Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler, his 1930s description of what it was like to watch the Nazi takeover of Germany: Many journals and newspapers disappeared from the kiosks – but … Continue reading →