media incidents

Credit to Fark for this: Newsmax fooled by a fake Paul Wolfowitz. Twice. Live on air You have to read it to believe it. Newsmax was fooled twice by a man pretending to be Wolfowitz. They interviewed "Wolfowitz" on August 21, then, not realizing they'd been fooled, called him back for another...

Ethan Berkowitz, the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, has announced he will resign following a bizarre outburst and accusation by a local news anchor, Maria Athens. The situation evidently began after Athens was involved in some kind of altercation at the television studio where she works - of which...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/media/abc-news-error-video/index.html "ABC aired supposedly shocking footage Monday and Sunday purporting to be from the frontline battle between the Syrian Kurds and the invading Turks. The only problem is, the footage appears to come from a nighttime machine...

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman made was invited to speak at the Davos World Economic Forum; basically a billionaire's meeting. He made the news when he used the opportunity to call out the elites on their hypocrisy. Now he was interviewed by millionaire Tucker Carlson of Fox News. The uppity...

Der Speigel has just announced that one of their reporters Claas Relotius has admitted to faking many (possibly all) of the stories he has written for them. According to the NPR article below he has returned all the awards he received for his reporting...

https://www.mediaite.com/online/lgbtq-group-rescinds-award-for-joy-reid-after-homophobic-blog-posts-revealed/ "The LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National has rescinded Joy Ann Reid’s allyship award in light of Mediaite‘s report on newly unearthed homophobic posts from the MSNBC pundit’s old blog...

Sadly, I suspect many of the Fox News crowd will still eat this crap right up. A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore

CNN has appeared to abandon news of any sort and instead is doxxing some nobody who made a funny GIF. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html what a buncha pussies

GOP candidate attacks reporter and has police called on him. Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS On scene now where Gianforte flags are posted outside a building. Looks...

The story as far as I can reconstruct it is this. On the 13th of April, the South African Huffington Post ran a blog post entitled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?" as an opinion piece. As might be guessed from the title the writer suggested that it might be a good idea. The...

For the last thirteen years Fox News has trotted out one Wayne Simmons on dozens of occasions to express opinions on various matters of "national security", "anti-terrorism operations" and "international relations" based on his 27 year service with the CIA. Except it was all a lie and Simmons...

Hillary's aides led reporters along a 4th of July parade route using ropes to keep them in a tight area. They held ropes around the group of reporters and herded them along with the parade. Photos explain this better than I can...

The end comes for Brian Williams and his "conflating" the fact that he was actually NOT on a helicopter hit by an RPG. http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html Should I be more surprised that a journalist would lie or...

In what sounds like it's going to become a large news story here in the great white north, popular radio host Jian Ghomeshi has been fired. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/jian-ghomeshi-host-of-q-no-longer-with-cbc-1.2813670

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REPORTERS_TREASON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-23-14-47-12 "NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory got a rise out of Glenn Greenwald on Sunday by asking the Guardian reporter why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for having...

I was going to publish this in Humor. But . . . Did Pope Francis really say that socialism causes misery, and that America is heading towards a form of communism...

Most people are aware of the efforts by journalists to investigate issues or make statements to provoke a response on an issue that concerns them. Journalists sometimes even overstep the law to generate publicity or call attention to a story. David Gregory's obvious violation of DC law on...