TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Fake news? Yesterday evening, The New York Times reported that: Angry at the civilian casualties incurred last month in the first commando raid authorized by President Trump, Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run Special Operations ground missions against suspected terrorist groups in the country, according to American officials. Grisly photographs of children apparently killed Read More…
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…