While preparing Proliferations for Jill Stanek.com, it appeared that there are many stories of important issues being reported inaccurately due to laziness, carelessness or outright deceit. No wonder the rise of citizen journalists like Lila Rose who go out and use their media skills to produce videos to bring out the facts that papers will not print.
Here are four recent incidents of shoddy journalism. This is important to point out because not everyone is a news junkie and has the time and interest in digging to find the truth. Many are casual readers who take the story at face value...beware.
The most egregious one is the excellent post by Jivin J pointing out that anyone can get a job at Newsweek. Jonathan Alter writes a story that proves the ineptness of his journalistic talents..as Jivin J points out a simple goggle search could have spared him outrageous, inaccurate comments.
Second place goes to the Knoxville News Sentinel that Fletcher Armstrong gently chides for not digging deeper. Actually he was way too easy on them. Again, just a few clicks of the mouse could have spared them from printing inaccuracies that are publicly other places.
Third is the Tennessean which I regularly complain about, but they do not hide that they are pro abortion. My latest complaint came when Jessica Bliss wrote a piece that took talking points and a few comments from facebook and wrote an article passing it off as news when it should have been a paid ad for PP.
Andy Birkley of the MN Independent comes in 4th ...only because I am letting him slide on the issue of ESCR and cloning which may be bit confusing but MN Citizens Concerned for Life rightly takes him to task for his lack of journalistic skills before putting the article out.
These are just examples of the past few days......so readers beware! Don't assume fact checking is standard procedure.
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