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Lessons learned … or not … from the Duke lacrosse case
Scott Greer of the Daily Caller argues that mainstream media outlets have learned no lessons from the fiasco of the Duke lacrosse case 10 years ago. Every outlet under the…
Sensationalism
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Because They Don’t Pursue Happiness
The news outlets continue to be saturated with conversation about the atrocity that happened near Roanoke, yesterday. The talking heads are demanding to know why. I do not understand how…
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General Gripe
Something there is that doesn’t like the way large news outlets present a few facts about an isolated incident, create a narrative about the unknown context, and manage to get…
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Why Boost Their Click Counts?
Something has morphed at the local daily. If I had to guess, I would say they want to sell more subscriptions. Why else would the headlines day after day speak…
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Grandiose Schemes Repeat – Part II
This morning, the radio broadcast another example of media-generated nonsense. Hardly a soul is disputing there was a tragedy in Boston. However, reporters needing to supply their 800 words look…
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Stossel takes his media colleagues to task
In a column headlined “First, the bad news,” John Stossel explains why it’s a bad idea to base your viewpoints and decisions on media reports. We in the media rarely…
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Local News Directors, A Plea for Sanity
No names and no links, but it should be pretty obvious with the rash of violent Charlotte area accidents snuffing out young lives what we are talking about. On one…
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Help! The drought’s over; what do we do now?
Drought mongers who predicted the end of the world because of a few weeks of low rain have turned out to be wrong, wrong, wrong. Their big mistake was forgetting…
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Sublime, meet ridiculous
Here’s the headline on a story in the Chicago Sun-Times: “Suburban Obama delegate quits over ‘divisive’ remark.” Here’s the subhead: “Says when she called black kids ‘monkeys,’ she was asking…
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A sure thing — bad news about the weather
The weather itself may not be worse than usual. It might be better. No matter, the news people will get about it will be full of alarmist hand-wringing. That’s John…
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Re: Unthinking, unfeeling
Even more egregiously, MSNBC was showing clips and stills from Cho’s press kit in split screen with live interviews of experts warning against that very thing. “Stupid” doesn’t describe it.…
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Incredible, unthinking irresponsibility in the media
In between the dorm shootings and the classroom shootings, Cho mailed a package of videos and photos to NBC News. Cho was inspired by the Columbine killers and all the…