1. Attachments are working again! Check out this thread for more details and to report any other bugs.

Somewhat ironic

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Proco, Jul 22, 2008.

  1. Proco

    Proco Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jun 16, 2006
    2,570
    172
    28
    Location:
    The Beautiful NJ Shore
    Vehicle:
    2010 Prius
    Model:
    III
    Check out the poll ...

    [​IMG]
     
  2. Abu Garcia

    Abu Garcia Active Member

    Joined:
    Jun 3, 2008
    726
    42
    0
    Location:
    Peoria, IL
    Vehicle:
    2011 Prius
    Model:
    II
    MSNBC of course!!!
     
  3. eagle33199

    eagle33199 Platinum Member

    Joined:
    Mar 2, 2006
    5,122
    268
    0
    Location:
    Minnesota
    Vehicle:
    2015 Prius v wagon
    Model:
    Two
    It's easy to prove you aren't the most biased media outlet if you aren't one of the choices you give the voters!
     
  4. rwhoyle

    rwhoyle Member

    Joined:
    Aug 19, 2007
    227
    2
    0
    Location:
    Tulsa, Oklahoma
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Model:
    N/A
    The New York Times is a no brainer.
     
  5. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

    Joined:
    Sep 23, 2006
    7,201
    1,073
    0
    Location:
    Northampton, MA
    Vehicle:
    2022 Prius Prime
    Model:
    Plug-in Base
    This is like the planet Jupiter asking "what is the biggest planet?" and giving the choices as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
     
  6. PriuStorm

    PriuStorm Senior Member

    Joined:
    Sep 4, 2007
    2,239
    149
    0
    Location:
    Davis, CA
    Vehicle:
    2007 Prius
    Hahaha, how funny.

    Oops, I thought I had stumbled into the 'Comic of the Day' thread... ;)
     
  7. Godiva

    Godiva AmeriKan Citizen

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2005
    10,339
    14
    0
    Location:
    San Diego, CA
    Vehicle:
    2005 Prius
    Where's Fox News?

    Oh....wait......
     
  8. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2006
    5,270
    37
    36
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    They are not asking your opinion they are testing your intelligence! LOL! The two that answered one got it right and the other was only off by a smidgen but in his defense one is broadcast news and the other is printed news and that would make it harder to gauge. The rest of you refused to answer and thus took the cowardly way out as outlined below by the MRC, (Media Research Center) and the Pew study.

    The Iraq War on Cable TV - 12/19/06 - Media Research Center Special Report

    Why don't you go ahead an offer some unbiased studies on MSM bias Proco? Oh here wait a minute I can answer that
    "Because it would show that the most biased MSM is one of the top four listed biased media channels in the survey."

    Wildkow

    p.s. even the Harvard study, no bastion of conservatism, determined that the MSM is liberal biased.



    IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Is Media Bias An Established Fact Now That Even Harvard Sees It?

    RealClearPolitics - Articles - Media Bias Obscures Economic Picture

    http://thefutureofnews.com/2007/11/...ren’t-old-media-leaders-defending-themselves/
     
  9. MarinJohn

    MarinJohn Senior Member

    Joined:
    Feb 6, 2004
    3,945
    303
    0
    Follow the money. Now, who owns the msm? Ahhh. More conservatives than progressives. Times being tough, jobs scarce and all, if you were a died in the wool lefty would you feel completely free to write what you feel or would you think about toning in down so as not to get reprimanded/fired and placing your family at risk of no income? Na ha. In this day and age I believe most would tone it down.

    What does this mean? If you righties think the msm is biased-left now, imagine how much more so it would be if msm contributors felt no constraints. Yes, this means things are a lot WORSE than we are reading. Go here for some media coverage from other countries and read their take on the US. http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/

    Remember, everything is cyclical, and now you righties know how those you so adamantly oppose when Reagan slid along his greasy path, helped every inch of the way by an idol-worshiping media which btw is not any more liberal than conservative. that tag line along with many others like 'democrats are the tax and spend party', Bush protesters are unAmerican, liberals place the environment above starving families, etc. These are all examples of the lies which the right-wing sheeple preach, leading to believing themselves the sludge at the bottom of their kool-aid barrel.
     
  10. Godiva

    Godiva AmeriKan Citizen

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2005
    10,339
    14
    0
    Location:
    San Diego, CA
    Vehicle:
    2005 Prius
    Google: Fox, Monsanto, rBGH and see what you get.

    Fox isn't even News.
     
  11. Devil's Advocate

    Joined:
    Mar 3, 2005
    922
    13
    1
    Location:
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Vehicle:
    2005 Prius
    Let's see what's news...

    CBS: Bush documents can?t be verified - Politics - MSNBC.com

    Janet Cooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception

    USATODAY.com - Ex-USA TODAY reporter faked major stories

    Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch Turns Tables on Media

    And to be sure how about ....
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]1. ABC, Food Lion story (1992). Fraudulent techniques and probable fabrication. Two ABC producers lied on their resumes to get jobs at Food Lion. They each wore a wig hiding a tiny lipstick-sized camera, and each carried a concealed microphone. It's possible they shot footage of mishandled food by doing the mishandling themselves. Food Lion sued ABC and a jury awarded it $5.5 million. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]2. ABC 20/20 "Exploding Fords" story (1978). Staged footage. Similar to the later NBC "exploding" GM trucks episode, ABC aired "grossly misleading crash videos and simulations, withheld the same sorts of material facts about the tests, and relied on the same dubious experts with the same ties to the plaintiffs bar... viewers were shown a crash fire and explosion without being told it had been started by an incendiary device." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]3. ABC 20/20, "Buckwheat" (of the Little Rascals) story. (1990). Fell for hoax. "In 1990 the ABC program 20/20 was hoaxed into believing that Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas was alive and working as a grocery bagger in Tempe, Arizona. (Thomas actually died in 1980.) A segment broadcast October 5 with narrator Hugh Downs featured an impostor." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]4. AFP/Yahoo News [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] (2007). Fell for hoax/lie. Ran a picture with the caption "An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City." But the picture was of unfired cartridges, which could only have "hit her house" if they were thrown at it. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]5. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Mitch Albom[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Detroit Free Press (2005). Lying/fabricating. In his sports column, he described alumni players at a basketball game who were not even there. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]6. Stephen Ambrose, historian/author (2002). Plagiarism. He was almost a book "factory", writing eight books in five years. But that apparently came easier when parts were copied from other books, without attribution.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]7. Pham Xuan An[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Time (1960's). Communist spy reporter. Pham Xuan An was a "Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. news organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the communists... He was the first Vietnamese to be a full-time staff correspondent for a major U.S. publication, working primarily for Time magazine... his job as a spy was to uncover and report the plans of the South Vietnamese and U.S. military... he was considered the best Vietnamese reporter in the press corps." He died in Viet Nam in 2006, where he had been "promoted to major general and was named a Hero of the People's Armed Forces, with four military-exploit medals."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]8. Peter Arnett[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], CNN, NBC, National Geographic (1999-2003). Lying, bias, treasonous behavior. CNN fired him in 1999 for his reporting the Operation Tailwind story (see below). NBC and National Geographic fired him in March 2003 for being interviewed on Iraqi TV during war, in which he stated that the U.S. war plan had failed. "It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war," said NBC.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]9. Associated Press (AP) (2005). Fell for hoax and phony photo. The AP ran a story, with a photo, about a soldier held hostage in Iraq. The photo turned out to be that of an action figure doll; there was no such soldier.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]10. Doug Bandow[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], columnist (2005). Failure to disclose potential conflict of interest. "The Copley News Service revealed it had suspended syndicated columnist Doug Bandow for allegedly accepting payments from Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write positive stories about Abramoff's clients." Bandow said, "It was a lapse of judgment on my part, and I take full responsibility for it." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]11. Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe (1998). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. Totally made up stories, including one about a black kid and a white kid with cancer. Also used quotes from George Carlin as his own. Fired from the Boston Globe. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]12. BBC and many others in the looted National Museum of Iraq story (2003). False reporting. The BBC stated on April 12, 2003, that "The museum's deputy director said looters had taken or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years. ‘They were worth billions of dollars... The Americans were supposed to protect the museum.'" By May, the Telegraph (UK) was reporting "They now believe that the number of items taken was in the low thousands, and possibly hundreds."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]13. Scott Beauchamp, The New Republic (2007). Lying. TNR hired this U.S. Army private and husband of one of its own staff to write first-hand accounts from Iraq. One of his accounts, supposedly demonstrating the dehumanizing effects of the Iraq war on him and fellow soldiers, occurred in Kuwait before Beauchamp even entered Iraq. Other parts of his writing are likely false, and if not, constitute military crimes on his part. In fact, his anonymous writing from a war zone is likely against military rules. This story is currently unfolding. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]14. Nada Behziz, The Bakersfield Californian (2005). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. Writing mostly on health issues, she plagiarized from the New York Times and AP, made up sources, and got basic facts wrong. An investigation counted 29 fabricated or plagiarized articles. She also lied on her resume. She was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]15. Michael Bellesiles, professor of history, author of Arming America and recipient of Columbia University's Bancroft Prize. Lying/fabricating. He made "myth shattering" claims about the history of guns in America that were based on fabricated historical records. He resigned from Emory University. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]16. Jayson Blair, The New York Times (2003). Lying/fabricating. He fabricated parts or all of at least 36 stories. He, along with his bosses Gerald Boyd and Howell Raines, resigned from the NYT.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]17. Doris Bloodsworth[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Orlando Sentinel (2004). Lying, or reporting with no substantiation. "The Orlando Sentinel has run a lengthy correction for articles in 2002 and 2003 saying federal authorities had confirmed that a jailed Jordanian had advance knowledge of the World Trade Center attack. The actual source was a lawyer for the Jordanian, and even he says the information was unconfirmed. The Sentinel declined to name the reporter. It was Doris Bloodsworth, who resigned earlier this year after botching a story about an OxyContin patient who turned out to have had a cocaine conviction." The Sentinel also ran a lengthy correction to Bloodworth's OxyContin story.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]18. Ron Borges, Boston Globe sports writer (2007). Plagiarism. The Globe suspended him for two months "after allegations that he had plagiarized a portion of a football column from another sportswriter." He retired from the Globe when his suspension ended. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]19. The Boston Globe (2004). Fake photos, fake story. The Boston Globe published pictures alleging U.S. troops raped Iraqi women. The pictures turned out to be commercially available pornography. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]20. Paul Bradley Richmond Times-Dispatch (2006). Lying/fabricating. Made up his story on reactions to President Bush's speech on immigration. He fabricated interviews. He reported on an event in the first person, yet he was not even in the same town. He was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]21. Rick Bragg, The New York Times (2003). "Drive-by" reporting. "Bragg's defense -- that it is common for Times correspondents to slip in and out of cities to ‘get the dateline' while relying on the work of stringers, researchers, interns and clerks -- has sparked more passionate disagreement than the clear-cut fraud and plagiarism committed by Blair. The issue, put starkly, is whether readers are being misled about how and where a story was reported." He resigned. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]22. Fox Butterfield, New York Times (2000). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. In 2003, a federal jury ruled that "the New York Times and one of its reporters libeled an Ohio Supreme Court justice" in an article published April 13, 2000. The jury found that the article was "not substantially true". He also "had lifted material from a story in The Boston Globe while [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]reporting, ironically, on plagiarism[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] by a Boston University dean". [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]23. Thom Calandra,Marketwatch.com (2005). Conflict of interest. He profited by selling stocks shortly after giving them positive write-ups in his newsletter. The SEC brought suit against him, which was settled. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]24. Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. Lying, plagiarism, bias. His book was so full of errors, including doctored maps, that his chief collaborator, Kenneth Stein of Emory University, resigned his position with the Carter Center. Carter's book was condemned by Alan Dershowitz and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]25. CBS 60 Minutes, the "Runaway Audi" (1989). Fake footage/manufactured evidence. "... drilled a hole in an Audi transmission and pumped in air at high pressure. Viewers didn't see the drill or the pump -- just the doctored car blasting off like a rocket. The story starred a mother who had run over her six-year-old son. On the air, she insisted that she had had her foot on the brake the whole time. When her $48 million claim came to court in Akron, Ohio, in June 1988 the investigating police officer and witnesses at the scene testified that after the accident the distraught mother had admitted that her foot had slipped off the brake. The jury found no defect in the car." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]26. CBS 60 Minutes, Illinois Power story (1979). Erroneous reporting. "The next day, the company's stock fell in the busiest trading day of its history. Illinois Power replied quickly to the story, however, producing a 44-minute videotape that served as a rebuttal to the show. The company sent it to customers, shareholders and investors, corporate executives and other journalists. It was a point-by-point reply to all of the assertions made on the show. In January 1980, CBS admitted to inaccuracies in the story." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]27. CBS 60 Minutes, another phony Vietnam vet story (1995). Fell for hoax/lie. Largely because of this 60 Minutes piece that painted Joe Yandle as a troubled Viet Nam combat veteran, his prison sentence was commuted. In a follow-up story, Mike Wallace interviewed Yandle who admitted he had never served in Vietnam. A host of other phony combat veterans are uncovered here[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times].[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]28. CBS, Dan Rather, The Wall Within (1988). Fell for hoax, liars. This documentary had Dan Rather interviewing six Viet Nam veterans who told stories of slaughter, cruelty and the horrors of war. "You're telling me that you went into the village, killed people, burned part of the village, then made it appear that the other side had done this?" Rather asked. "Yeah. It was kill VC, and I was good at what I did." It turned out that only one of the vets served in combat and their stories were false. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]29. CBS, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes (2004). Fell for fake documents. CBS used forged documents from a non-credible source in claiming George W. Bush received favored treatment in the Air National Guard. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]30. Chris Cecil, Cartersville Daily News (2005). Plagiarism. "The associate managing editor of a small Georgia newspaper was fired for plagiarizing articles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald, including copying a passage about his mother's battle with cancer. Chris Cecil, 28, was fired from The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville on Thursday after the Herald pointed out six to eight columns written since March that contained portions from work by Leonard Pitts Jr." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]31. Philip Chien, Wired News (2006). Lying/fabricating. He made up sources and quotes in at least three articles. Wired withdrew the stories. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]32. Ward Churchill, Chairman of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado. Lying and plagiarism. He lied about his credentials and ethnic background to get a job in the first place. His "research" was laden with fabricated evidence, plagiarism and referencing his own previous writings under pseudonyms. He is worthy of Mary McCarthy's quote about Lillian Hellman: "Every word (s)he writes is a lie, including ‘and' and ‘the'." He was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]33. CNN, Operation Tailwind, CNN NewsStand (1998). Lying/fabricating. The televised special claimed that the U.S. military used nerve gas in a mission to kill American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War, but the story had no factual support. CNN later retracted the story. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]34. CNN and Eason Jordan (2003). Admitted bias, slanting the news. Eason Jordan, CNN's news chief, admitted that CNN withheld reporting on Saddam Hussein's atrocities so as to continue getting favored treatment from Saddam.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]35. Consumer Reports[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Suzuki Samurai rollover story. (1988) False reporting. After CR reported that the Samurai "easily rolls over in turns", Samurai sales plummeted. Suzuki sued Consumers Union, parent of Consumer Reports, and the suit was settled in 1999, with CU admitting that "Samurai's real world rollover accident performance was within a range with other utility vehicles" and that "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and others have criticized the CU tests."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]36. Janet Cooke, WashingtonPost (1980-1981), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying/fabricating. Her series on "Jimmy's World" about an 8-year-old heroin addict was totally made up. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]37. Katie Couric, "Katie Couric's Notebook," CBSNews.com (2007). Plagiarism. In the first place, her blog is largely written by someone else. That someone else copied material from The Wall Street Journal, without attribution. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]38. The Daily Egyptian (2005). Fell for hoax. This student newspaper wrote a series about the family of a soldier in Iraq who subsequently died, except that the whole thing was made up.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]39. Alexis Debat[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], ABC and Politique Internationale (2007). Lied. "Since 2002, [ABC] has employed Debat as a counterterrorism consultant and sometimes reporter." He "had faked an interview with Sen. Barack Obama that he published under his name in a French journal, Politique International [and] had published other alleged interviews in the same journal with Sen. Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. It turns out, ABC itself later reported, the interviews were apparently fabricated." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]40. Allan Detrich, The Toledo Blade (2007). Doctored photos. He submitted 79 photographs that were altered. "The changes Mr. Detrich made included erasing people, tree limbs, utility poles, electrical wires, electrical outlets, and other background elements from photographs. In other cases, he added elements such as tree branches and shrubbery." He resigned. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]41. Maureen Dowd, New York Times (2003). Serious misquoting. She cut words out of one of President Bush's statements, using quotation marks, to imply he said al-Qaida is no longer a problem. He was really referring only to those who were dead or captured. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]42. Stephen Dunphy, Seattle Times associate editor and business columnist (2004). Plagiarism. He used significant quotes (e.g., seven paragraphs at a time) from other sources on multiple occasions. He resigned. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]43. Walter Duranty, The New York Times (1930s), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying. This man visited Stalin's Russia and wrote that nothing untoward was happening there -- no famine, etc. In fact, up to 10 million people died in the Ukraine famine. His writings matched Russian propaganda almost exactly. His Pulitzer Prize still stands. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]44. Joseph Ellis, professor at Mount Holyoke College and historian/author (2001), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying. He falsely claimed military service in Vietnam and incorporated his war "experiences" into his college courses on "The Vietnam War and American Culture". Mount Holyoke censured him and suspended him without pay for one year. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]45. Diana Griego Erwin , Sacramento Bee (2005). Lying/fabricating. The Bee was "unable to verify the existence of 43 people she named in her columns". She resigned. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]46. Hassan Fattah, New York Times (2006). Fell for a hoax. Did a front page story about the man in one of the famous Abu Ghraib photos. But it turned out that the man who claimed to be the one in the picture, who provided details for the story, was not the one in the picture at all. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]47. James Forlong, Sky News (2003). Fake story, fake footage. He presented footage from a missile test as actual combat in Iraq. He subsequently committed suicide. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]48. Jay Forman, Slate (2001). Fake story. He wrote an article describing the fictitious sport of Monkey Fishing as real. Slate later published an apology and admitted details were fictitious. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]49. James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, Oprah Book Club. Lying. Virtually the entire "nonfiction memoir" of his vomit-caked years as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal was fabricated.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]50. Michael Fumento[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], syndicated columnist and author (2006). Failure to disclose potential conflict of interest. He failed to disclose when he wrote articles mentioning Monsanto that Monsanto gave money to the Hudson Institute, where Fumento was a fellow. Scripps-Howard News Service severed ties with him. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]51. Michael Gallagher, The Cincinnati Enquirer (1998). Information theft. "Mike Gallagher had illegally tapped into Chiquita's voice mail system and used information he obtained as a result in stories questioning Chiquita's business practices in Latin America." The paper agreed to pay Chiquita Brands International over $10 million and run an apology on the front page three times. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]52. Andrew Gilligan, BBC (2004). False/unsubstantiated reporting. He reported that the UK government had exaggerated the threat by Saddam to justify going to war. His report was largely based on an interview with weapons expert David Kelly. His story was found to be "defective" and his claims "unfounded" by Lord Hutton's investigation. Gilligan resigned and Kelly committed suicide. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]53. Stephen Glass, The New Republic (1998). Lying. "Glass, a 25-year-old rising star at The New Republic, wrote dozens of high-profile articles for a number of national publications in which he made things up... he made up people, places and events. He made up organizations and quotations. Sometimes, he made up entire articles. And to back it all up, he created fake notes, fake voicemails, fake faxes, even a fake Web site - whatever it took to deceive his editors, not to mention hundreds of thousands of readers." He was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]54. Jacqueline Gonzalez, San Antonio Express News (2007). Plagiarism. She admitted "she used, without attribution, information from a Web site for a Christmas Day column. Later research uncovered further examples of plagiarism in two other columns." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]55. Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian/author (2002). Plagiarism. Large portions of her book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, were lifted from multiple other sources without attribution. She took a leave of absence from PBS.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]56. Linda Gorov[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], The Boston Globe Super Bowl spouse abuse story (1993). Lying or falling for hoax. Gorov reported that wife abuse increases dramatically during the Super Bowl, following a narrative started by a coalition of women's groups. The Washington Post can be credited with investigating, and found that the sources for the original story evaporated under scrutiny, and that reports from women's shelters showed no increase in cases during Super Bowl, in direct contradiction of Gorov's story.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]57. Adnan Hajj, Reuters (2006). Doctored photos. He doctored dozens of pictures of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel conflict. Reuters later withdrew all 920 of his photos from sale. (See more on middle east "fauxtography", including blog-famous "Wailing Woman" or "Flat Fatima", "Islamic Rage Boy", "Green Helmet Guy", "Mickey Mouse" rubble, Israeli "missile" hole in ambulance, dead guy walking, etc., here[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times].)[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]58. Alex Haley (1977) , Pulitzer Prize winning author of Roots. Plagiarism. He settled a lawsuit for $650,000, admitting that large passages of Roots were copied from the book The African by Harold Courlander. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]59. Mark Halperin, ABC News (2004). Admitted bias. He wrote a memo to news staff telling them to hold George Bush to a stricter standard than John Kerry: "Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and makes] mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]60. Jack Hitt, New York Times (2006). Lying, or at least really sloppy research. He wrote a story about a woman in El Salvador who was sentenced to prison for having an abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant. It turned out that "her child was carried to term, was born alive and died in its first minutes of life." In short, her crime was infanticide, not abortion. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]61. Houston Chronicle, Light Rail Controversy (2002). Admitted bias. An internal memo outlined how the paper would promote the light rail project in Houston and do research into Tom Delay and other light rail opponents. That would be creating the news rather than reporting it.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]62. Michael Isikoff, Newsweek (2005). False/unsubstantiated reporting. The Newsweek article claimed that a U.S. interrogator at a Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet (2005). "Anti-U.S. fanatics seized on the report to stir up riots that have left more than a dozen people dead in Pakistan and Afghanistan." There is no evidence such a thing ever happened, and most of us wonder how it would even be possible.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]63. Eason Jordan,CNN (2005). False accusations. He accused U.S. forces in Iraq of deliberately targeting and killing journalists. He apologized and resigned. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]64. Jack Kelley , USA Today (2004). Lying. USA Today concluded of "the star" of its news staff: "Jack Kelley's dishonest reporting dates back at least as far as 1991." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]65. Martin Luther King, Doctor of Theology, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1950's). Plagiarism. Parts of his PhD thesis were plagiarized. A Boston University committee found that he was "responsible for knowingly misappropriating the borrowed materials that he failed to cite or to cite adequately... that is a straightforward breach of academic norms and that constitutes plagiarism as commonly understood." The committee chairman added, "under no circumstances would the atmosphere under which he did his work condone what Dr. King did. It's incredible. He was not unaware of the correct procedure. This wasn't just done out of ignorance." His degree was not revoked, but the university did attach a letter to his dissertation explaining the plagiarism.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]66. Lewis Lapham[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Harper's (2004). Lying. Reported on the Republican National Convention before it happened, then justified himself. He was caught "describing events from this year's Republican National Convention before it convened." When caught, Lapham "both apologized for the fictionalizing, calling it a ‘mistake ... a serious one" and a ‘mix up,' and defended it as ‘rhetorical invention' and ‘poetic license.'"[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]67. Jason Leopold,[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] Salon, Dow Jones, Truthout.org(2002-2006). Lying. Leopold "was caught making stuff up in a 2002 Salon.com article, self-admittedly ‘getting it completely wrong' in pieces for Dow Jones, and had his own memoir canceled because of concerns over the accuracy of quotations." In 2006 he reported that Karl Rove was indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald, when he wasn't. He was fired from multiple organizations.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]68. Dennis Love, Sacramento Bee (2001). Fabrication and plagiarism. "The Sacramento Bee fired Love for plagiarizing and fabricating material in his stories on the presidential campaign." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]69. Jesse MacBeth, anti-war star (2006). Lying/fabricating. "Jesse MacBeth stoked opposition to the Iraq war in 2006 when he spoke out about atrocities he committed as a U.S. Army Ranger serving as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MacBeth, 23, of Tacoma, claimed to have killed more than 200 people, many at close range, some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet. Trouble is, none of MacBeth's claims was true."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]70. Herbert L. Matthews[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], New York Times (1957-60's). Liar or fool; the Walter Duranty of Castro's Cuba. "Matthews' flat declaration that Castro was an anti-communist would, of course, come back to haunt him. And though that was the most extreme example of the extraordinary credulousness with which Matthews treated Castro's claims, it is by no means the only one. Bluntly put, virtually everything in Matthews' story is a lie."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]71. Rigoberta Menchu, author of I, Rigoberta (1983), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1992). Lying/fabricating. She claimed her autobiographical book "is the story of all poor Guatemalans. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people." However, "Menchú augmented her own story with that of the Indians of Guatemala generally, reporting experiences she either did not have or could not have witnessed and misrepresenting the violent history of her area of Guatemala to support her own cause as a Guatemalan guerrilla organizer." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]72. Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (2006). Lying. He admitted to fabricating a story in his younger reporting days.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]73. Bob Morris, Orlando Sentinel (1993). Plagiarism. "The Sentinel discovered that Morris had written a column for the paper in October 1993 that was essentially the same as one published eleven years earlier by Mike Harden... Punishment was moot since Morris was no longer on the Sentinel staff. But the paper published an apology to its readers and made a cash settlement to Harden."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]74. National Geographic[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] and paleontologists, (1999). Fell for hoax. Philip J. Currie and other paleontologists "announced the discovery of Archaeoraptor at a press conference in Washington, D.C., at the National Geographic Society" in October 1999 (SN: 11/20/99, p. 328). "At the time, they called it a missing link between birds and dinosaurs." Later, "red-faced and downhearted, paleontologists are growing convinced that they have been snookered by a bit of fossil fakery from China. The ‘feathered dinosaur' specimen that they recently unveiled to much fanfare apparently combines the tail of a dinosaur with the body of a bird, they say." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]75. NBC, Waiting to Explode segment on Dateline NBC (1992). Faking evidence and footage. NBC demonstrated the explosive danger of GM trucks' gas tanks by showing one actually explode in what appeared to be normal circumstances. "NBC said the truck's gas tank had ruptured, yet an X ray showed it hadn't; NBC consultants set off explosive miniature rockets beneath the truck split seconds before the crash -- yet no one told the viewers." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]76. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]New Orleans Times-Picayune[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] and many other newspapers reported rumors, hoaxes and lies related to hurricane Katrina. The NOTP came clean and critiqued itself and others saying, "media coverage of Hurricane Katrina was marred by the widespread reporting-sometimes attributed to public officials-of murders and rapes that apparently never took place". Also see [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Popular Mechanics[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] for a refutation of Katrina myths. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]77. Christopher Newton, Associated Press (2002). Lying. "The Associated Press accused Washington bureau reporter Christopher Newton of journalistic fraud last month and sacked him. The AP alleges that in at least 40 of the many hundred stories Newton wrote for the wire service between Jan. 13, 2000, and Sept. 8, 2002, Newton quoted sources who appear not to exist." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]78. NPR, CNN and others on the "Jenin massacre" (2002). Lying. CNN reported: "There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp . . . This is a war crime, clear war crime." However, the actual "death toll was 56 Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and 23 Israeli soldiers." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]79. Michael Olesker, Baltimore Sun (2006). Plagiarism. "Veteran Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker, who has been in a high-profile feud with Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, was dismissed yesterday over several instances in which he used, without attribution, wording similar to that employed by other journalists."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]80. Ken Powers[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], sportswriter for The Telegram & Gazette (2005). Plagiarism. Powers "was fired on Thursday after an investigation determined that he had not only plagiarized parts of a recent column from a Sports Illustrated writer, but had borrowed from other writers in the past without proper attribution."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]81. Reuters, Lebanon coverage (2006). Fake/staged photos.A burning tire dump as the scene of an Israeli bombing, Photoshopped bomb smoke, etc. during the Lebanon-Israel conflict. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]82. Reuters Russia's North Pole coverage (2007). More fake photos/footage. "Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic." The mistake was caught by a 13-year-old Finnish boy.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]83. Bart Ripp [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Tacoma News Tribune (2004). Lying food critic. "Ripp took food for free and made up fake interviews... The Tacoma News Tribune admits its restaurant critic messed up. They believe Ripp lied and that he made up at least 25 sources he quoted in his articles." Ripp quit when confronted.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]84. Tim Ryan, Honolulu Star-Bulletin (2006). Plagiarism. This entertainment reporter wrote multiple articles with words lifted from other sources without attribution. He was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]85. Mirthala Salinas anchor for Emmy Award winning newscast on KVEA-TV in Los Angeles (2007). Conflict of interest. She was having an affair with La's mayor while reporting on him. "Telemundo and Mirtha Salinas have mutually agreed to end our employment relationship effective October 1," station spokesman Victor M. Franco said.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]86. Uli Schmetzer[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Chicago Tribune (2004). Lying. "The Chicago Tribune said Wednesday it fired a freelance writer and former longtime foreign correspondent for the newspaper after he admitted fabricating the name of a source he quoted making disparaging remarks about Aborigines in a recent story from Australia."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]87. Ruth Shalit, The New Republic (1995). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. She was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]88. Gail Sheehy author (1976). Plagiarism. "Manhattan Journalist Gail Sheehy, in preparing her 1976 bestseller Passages, borrowed enough from [UCLA Psychiatrist Roger] Gould's unpublished research that the psychiatrist sued for plagiarism. The suit was settled out of court, with Gould receiving $10,000 and 10% of Sheehy's royalties." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]89. Eric Slater, Los Angeles Times (2005). Inaccuracy and plagiarism. "The LA Times ran a lengthy Editor's Note that outlines the inaccuracies, ‘substandard' reporting methods and unverifiable quotes in two stories by reporter Eric Slater." He was fired. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]90. Patricia Smith, Boston Globe (1998), Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lying/fabricating "An award-winning metro columnist for The Boston Globe resigned Thursday after being asked to leave by the paper's editor, who said she admitted to fabricating people and quotes in four columns this year." "[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]I attributed quotes to people who didn't exist." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]91. Barbara Stewart, Boston Globe (2005). Lying/fabricating. "The Boston Globe acknowledged yesterday publishing a partially fabricated story by a freelance reporter about a Canadian seal hunt that had not taken place."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]92. Evan Thomas[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times], Newsweek (2004). Admitted bias. Thomas said, "Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. ... They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them ... that's going to be worth maybe 15 points."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]93. Nina Totenberg, The National Observer (1972). Plagiarism. She was fired by The National Observer for plagiarism. "Totenberg had allegedly lifted several paragraphs from a Washington Post story and dropped them into a piece she was writing about former House Speaker Tip O'Neill for the now-defunct National Observer." She is currently legal correspondent for NPR. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]94. Jim Van Vliet, Sacramento Bee (2005). Misrepresentation and plagiarism. "The reporter watched the game on television at a location away from the stadium. He filed his story without telling editors at The Bee his true location, leaving the impression he covered the game from the ballpark. In addition, it was discovered later that the story included quotes from other media outlets that were unattributed and old, made to reporters on a previous occasion before the day of the game." He no longer works there. [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]95. Brian Walski, The Los Angeles Times (2003). Doctored photos. The LA Times admitted that it "published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy." [/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]96. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Washington Post[/FONT] [FONT=times new roman,times](and others), "Plastic Turkey" story (2003). Lying or false reporting. The Post and a host of other media, including the New York Times, reported that President Bush was photographed with a plastic turkey rather than a real one when he visited troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving. The story was used to paint the White House as a public relations spin machine, with policy just as fake as the turkey. But in fact, the turkey was real. Multiple newspapers issued corrections.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]97. Gary Webb, Pulitzer Prize winner, San Jose Mercury News (1996). Lying. He wrote the series of articles saying the CIA under President Reagan brought crack cocaine to Los Angeles. "Major parts of Webb's reporting were later discredited by other newspaper investigations. An investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department found no evidence of a connection between the CIA and the drug traffickers. In 1997, then-Mercury News executive editor Jerry Ceppos backed away from the series, saying ‘we fell short at every step of our process.' Webb was transferred to one of the paper's suburban bureaus." He committed suicide in 2004, but remains a hero to many conspiracy theorists.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]98. Armstrong Williams,[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] TV show host and columnist (2004). Pay for play. He was paid by the Bush administration to promote Bush policies on his TV show and in his columns. He did so without disclosure. Unlike Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus, he was paid directly for the content of his show and columns, not government brochures. Plus, his pay was much more significant: $241,000. He also settled a lawsuit with the government for failure to fulfill a contract.[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]99. Duff Wilson and Jonathan D. Glater [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times] , New York Times Duke Lacrosse reporting (2006). Flawed reporting. The NYT stories generally painted the prosecution as strong and the defense weak. As it turned out, the charges were dropped, the defendants completely vindicated and apologized to, and prosecutor Nifong was himself put in jail. The NYT's own "public editor", Byron Calame, stated "the article last August had left me concerned that Times journalists were not sufficiently skeptical in relying so heavily on the [prosecution investigator] Gottlieb notes." Calame does assure us, however, that "most flaws flowed from journalistic lapses rather than ideological bias."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]100. Bob Wisehart, Sacramento Bee (1994). Plagiarism. "Sacramento Bee editor Gregory Favre fired TV columnist Bob Wisehart the second time he plagiarized. For the first offense, Wisehart got a five-month suspension even though his plagiarism involved hundreds of words taken from Stephen King's book Danse Macabre for a television column about horror shows."[/FONT]
    • [FONT=times new roman,times]101. [/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]Micah Wright[/FONT][FONT=times new roman,times]. Author and anti-war activist (2003). Lying. Claimed to be a former U.S. Ranger and combat veteran. His book, You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!, was endorsed by novelist Kurt Vonnegut and historian Howard Zinn. He was never in the military.[/FONT]
    OOOOH Fox tried to quash One legitimate story, that's bad, some people were canned and there will probably be some monetary penalties sooner or later but the "stories" listed above aren't "misinterpretations of the facts or attempt to quash legit stories, these are down right media fabricated stories in order to accomplish an agenda. And a LOT of them!

    Let's not forget that all the Marines in Haditha were acquitted! It's amazing how democrats will believe people who cut the heads off of prisoners and videotape it and blow up public buses before they will believe a U.S. Marine!

     
  12. airportkid

    airportkid Will Fly For Food

    Joined:
    Sep 2, 2005
    2,191
    538
    0
    Location:
    San Francisco Bay Area CA
    Vehicle:
    2005 Prius
    I see that Judith Miller didn't make the list.

    This is why these arguments are preposterous on their face: here we're presented a list of journalistic impropriety dating back into the 1960s with the implication that it's complete, and it isn't complete, it's two fistsful of yellow grains of sand picked off a beach made of millions of grains of sand of all colors of the rainbow.

    It is ironic indeed that a post ranting about "bias" is itself so heavily biased it'd capsize a battleship.
     
  13. Dipena

    Dipena Senior Member

    Joined:
    Apr 22, 2008
    1,567
    68
    0
    Location:
    Massachusetts
    Vehicle:
    2008 Prius
    Devil's Advocate: Just curious...Where did that list come from?

    Never mind. I see that it came from Wikipedia. If your point is that "legitimate" MSM contains errors and lies, your point is well taken. It is not exempt from mistakes and fabrications. There's no point in getting into a pissing match over it, because this list doesn't even begin to look at the stuff that is on so-called sources like Fox and various talk radio shows.

    So, if liberal-leaning (in your opinion) MSM is acknowledged to include errors and/or fabrications, does this mean that right-leaning media outlets do not contain errors and fabrications? If they do, does the fact that there are mistakes in LL MSM mean that the ones in RL sources don't matter?

    Or do they all matter?

    My personal feeling that is that all news outlets carry some type of bias. It bugs me when people say they listen to BBC because it's "not biased." Sure it's biased, everything is biased. It's just a different slant than US media, and so provides another perspective. It all reflects a particular POV, and people have to be careful and sensitive readers and listeners.
     
  14. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2006
    5,270
    37
    36
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    Study after independent study has conclusively proven the liberal media bias. Anyone that can't see or accept that is a narcissist but you're liberals so I'm being redundant.

    Wildkow
     
  15. Wildkow

    Wildkow New Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2006
    5,270
    37
    36
    Vehicle:
    2006 Prius
    He has over one hundred stories the greater majority of them within the last ten years. Please tell me do you believe that the MSM has a liberal bias of not?

    Judith Miller really isn't that good an example now is she? She believed the stories of Iraqi WMD's just like every other news outlet and liberal politician did and she appeared as a witness for the prosecution at the Libby trial. Not to menetion she is just one (poor) example compared to the 100+ listed above.

    Wildkow
     
  16. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

    Joined:
    Sep 23, 2006
    7,201
    1,073
    0
    Location:
    Northampton, MA
    Vehicle:
    2022 Prius Prime
    Model:
    Plug-in Base
    Mainstream Media is as "liberal" as the corporations which own it.