TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Even amidst a cacophony of nearly nonstop media fusillades against President Trump, the New York Times’ charge has stood out. After months of stories presenting Donald Trump as a sexual predator, business fraudster, puppet of Vladimir Putin, tax dodger, walking emolument disaster and whatever else it can dream up, the New York Times called Trump a liar in Read More…
In a mini tweet storm released earlier this morning, President Trump blasted the “negative polls” of “fake news” outlets “CNN, ABC and NBC” after a couple of polls from the weekend seemingly revealed that the American people largely opposed his executive order on immigration. Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, Read More…
—Notes on media invention— —Notes on interviewees who try to appear normal on television and who are bizarre to the nth degree. These interviewees are so bizarre, in part, because they ARE trying to appear normal— I wrote this Sandy Hook article in 2013. It’s about the soap opera called television. I’ve added some new Read More…
With “fake news” a dominant conversation topic in recent months, we would like to remind readers that “non-GAAP reporting” has only recently became a distinctly political phenomenon, although it has been present in economic and financial circles for a long, long time. Nowhere is this more obvious today, than in the following “headline” revision from Read More…
The crackdown has begun. In a blog post by Scott Spencer, director of product management for sustainable ads, posted on Wednesday, Google said it has banned 200 publishers from accessing its Adsense advertising service for posting fake news stories. Google said it had cracked down on sites which contained 1) Ads for illegal products; 2) Read More…
Defying any sense of journalistic integrity and loyalty to the truth, the Washington Post did it again — publishing Fake News for clicks — which had the desired effect of worldwide outrage to suit a tightly-defined political agenda. This latest astounding deviation from the facts, however, makes indisputably clear the weaponization of news. Journalists and media outlets make mistakes Read More…