Timely reminder that journalists do not usually tell explicit, out-and-out lies, but they do still lie.
Here's the playbook: https://t.co/xl6wke2oJQ
Timely reminder that journalists do not usually tell explicit, out-and-out lies, but they do still lie. Here's the playbook: https://t.co/xl6wke2oJQ
This clumsy attempt at a disguised smear should make you think every time you read an op-ed. Op-eds are often nothing more than cloaked propaganda efforts generated by paid or political interests,
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Um bom jornalista não busca o equilíbrio — como quando, digamos, um líder mundial comete um crime de guerra ou mente descaradamente para os cidadãos de seu país —, pois seria criar uma falsa equivalência. Quando um jornalista enfrenta os poderosos, é mais fácil e mais seguro escrever a matéria de uma maneira “equilibrada”. Mas essa é a saída do cov
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