James Lyons-Weiler | 24 Feb 2022 Twisting, distorting and warping data can be hidden behind the guise of “science”. But hiding data? And claiming they need more funding because you can’t report some numbers? Well, you decide. Last year, IPAK was called out for calling out CDC for over-reporting cases and death rates – a…
Disinformation Chronicle | 22 Feb 2022 Blinded by bias, some reporters struggle to see misinformation that buttresses their own bigotry. Many reporters seem unconcerned that social media platforms are censoring what people can read. In just one recent example, Washington Post technology reporter Will Oremus wrote a flat-footed analysis that tried but failed to deny that censoring…
GM Watch | 16 Dec 2021 The investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker has won a prestigious British Journalism Award for a series of articles he wrote in the BMJ, one of the world’s top general medical journals. The awards aim to recognise great journalism that is revelatory while serving the public interest. The three articles that won Thacker the Specialist Journalism 2021…
Daily Mail | 7 Dec 2021 Host is accused of unethical behavior just days after Chris Cuomo was fired for helping his brother fight sex-pest claims Jussie Smollett testified on Monday that Don Lemon warned him Chicago cops did not believe his story It was before he was arrested for allegedly lying to police about…
Bad Cattitude | 1 Dec 2021 you thought you knew how deep the clown world rabbithole went. you were wrong. it just got personal.
James Lyons-Weiler | 1 Dec 2021 So-called “Fact-checkers” posture as if their opinion is the final word. They claim unwarranted special value of their opinion on issues, but their articles are still opinion blog articles. Over the past two years, I have had the occasion to be targeted by articles in self-acclaimed “fact-checking” websites. In…
Common Sense | 27 Nov 2021 California’s burglars organize flash mobs. Waukesha massacre “caused by an SUV.” And comedy gold from the Women’s March. Welcome back to TGIF and happy Thanksgiving. It’ll be a short one this week so we can all get back to family life—cozy, mask-free, family life (and watching the Dow drop…
SWPRS | 25 Nov 2021 Do you belong to the 94% of Internet users who have no clue? Google Search has a US online search market share of about 70%, or even 94% if Google Images, Google Maps and Google-owned YouTube are added (see chart above). If you belong to these 94%, there is some bad news…
BFD | 29 Oct 2021 Public Interest Journalism Propaganda has received an $18m boost with the announcement of funding for an additional 110 journalists across New Zealand with “a specific mandate to produce stories that keep New Zealanders informed and engaged, and support a healthy democracy”. Don’t you just love the Newspeak? War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is…
The Defender | 14 Oct 2021 On the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, host Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, went head to head on a number of COVID-related topics, including why CNN told viewers Rogan took “horse dewormer” when he had COVID. On the latest episode of “The…