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Entries in Journalism (3)

Saturday
16Jan2010

Best Quote Ever About Fox News

Had to pass this on:

Recently, Fox News pushed a Daily Mail story about global warming that was full of falsehoods, half-facts, and bad science. The title? "Could we be in for 30 years of global cooling?" The expert it was supposedly based on? Dr. Mojib Latif of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Except ... it wasn't true. Dr. Latif never said the things attributed to them, and he certainly isn't a climate-change denier. In fact, he states repeatedly that rapid warming is all-but-inevitable over the next two decades.

Here's the quote, though, that just perfectly captures Fox News:

He had me reread the quotes attributed to him a number of times, asking twice, “those are direct quotes?” After I did, he said to me:  “I don’t know what to do.  They just make these things up.”

Pretty dead-on accurate, don't you think? In fact, I think that would make a great tagline for the national Fox News Network:

Fox News -- we just make shit up.
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Friday
12Jun2009

C-J Cuts Jobs, Gannett Execs Get Bonuses

(I've only got a few minutes before leaving for work, but I thought this needed to get up this morning. I'll expand on it later tonight.)

Even while our local paper is hollowed out to a shell of its former self, and Gannett slashes jobs and freezes salaries across the country, Gannett execs are making the big bucks -- including a one-million dollar salary for the CEO.

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Monday
26May2008

My Dad versus Liz Trotta

My dad was a journalist. He was a number of other things as well: son of a preacher, high-school boxer, WWII volunteer, medic during the war, concentration camp liberator. Journalism student at U of Missouri. Reporter, columnist, editor. But above all, he was a journalist -- a "newspaperman," as he liked to be called. An old-fashioned, get-it-right newspaperman. And on this Memorial Day, as I watch the Liz Trotta clip, I'm thinking of him and what he would say.

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