Your source to mainline mainstream media misdeeds and malarky.
This episode delves into a number of stories with a common theme: the press refusing to look into a story and get the facts. It is an amazing run of examples where cursory research would have saved them embarrassment, but the need to rush out an item was far greater than pesky little details, such as being accurate.
A political cartoonist was dying to portray Republicans as racist but could not be bothered to learn about the subject to get the bigotry accurately portrayed. There were two “scandalous” pieces on Ron DeSantis, but in one reporter’s rush to accuse him of using a racist trope, he failed to see first if his own paper used the phrase (it did, dozens of times). Another alleges a donation scandal, except there is the small detail of DeSantis not receiving the donation.
Then we have numerous outlets reporting on a hate crime that was, unsurprisingly, a hoax (yes, again) and a fact-check that was so accurate it needed to be altered. Twice.
Now, crack one open and savor some mainstream media mayhem and malpractice.
LINKAGE PARK
- The racist political cartoon targeting Vivek Ramaswamy was not the only problem.
- USA Today is racist according to the standards set by USA Today.
- Reuters is convinced it has a new scandal on Ron DeSantis. Reuters does not have one.
- News outlets ran with a gay hate-crime story — and then the facts arrived.
- Snopes has trouble coming up with a definitive explanation for a fact-check on OceanGate and Elon Musk.
