Responsible Journalism

Consuming Journalism: Something's wrong at the New York Times

Obviously, I cannot be trusted on my claims to have permanently retired the Consuming Journalism feature. I'd be better off (healthier, happier) if I could stick to that claim. We're back to the kompromat in a bad article by Michael S. Schmidt [https://news.yahoo.com/trump-miss-moscow-report-examines-120923516.html?guce_referrer=

Carlos Ballesteros

Consuming Journalism: What happened to Newsweek?

Do you buy and read hard copy magazines anymore? I don’t, unless I grab one at the airport. I haven’t paid close attention to the magazine industry’s health recently, but I think they have been struggling for years as people move to either online subscriptions or read

Consuming Journalism

Consuming Journalism: Investigation into Death of Special Forces Soldier in Bamako, Mali

On 13 November 2017, the New York Times published an article [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/navy-seals-green-beret-death-mali.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news] indicating that two U.S. Navy SEALs named as persons of interest in the

CNN

Consuming Journalism: Raise the Bar CNN and LA Times

President Trump is in the middle of a long, important, 12 day trip to Asia. He has a lot to cover. Addressing the North Korea challenge alone would warrant 12 days of meetings. But he’ll also be discussing economic issues and military cooperation and visiting U.S. facilities. Presumably,

Consuming Journalism

Consuming Journalism: Shoddy work at the Huffington Post

On 12 July 2017 (“06:28 pm ET”), the Huffington Post published an article by Mollie Reilly with the headline “Report Says U.S. Intelligence Agencies Heard Russian Officials Discussing Trump Team in 2015 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-officials-trump-associates_us_59669790e4b0a8d46d11e247?adq&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009] .” There are a lot of

Buzzfeed

Consuming Journalism: Unnamed sources aren't bad, using them poorly is

After the recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, President Trump took to Twitter [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884142582191849474] to make a reference to a ceasefire of some kind in Syria that he brokered in talks with President Putin. On 10 July 2017, Buzzfeed posted an article by Nancy Youssef

Bloomberg

Consuming Journalism: Technically true, intentionally misleading

On 9 July 2017, Bloomberg Politics revealed another embarrassing gaffe for the Trump Administration. According to a Bloomberg tweet [https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/884255892895662080] (also included below), the Trump Administration mistakenly referred to the leader of China as the leader of Taiwan. However, if you click on the link

Click Bait

Consuming Journalism: Just for Clicks

I remember when Yahoo’s homepage [https://www.yahoo.com] was a decent source of news from a variety of publications. That was a long time ago. I still click on Yahoo occasionally, part Pavlovian response and also to get a quick sense of whether there are any international breaking