Joy Reid Said Vaccinated People Who Refuse To Wear Masks Are 'Irrational.' Fauci Didn't Correct Her.
Who's being irrationally paranoid?
Who's being irrationally paranoid?
Both advocates and skeptics of the copycat theory recommend self-restraint by the news media.
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
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So far it's crickets from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The Washington Post nevertheless blames "a broad loosening of public health measures."
CBS cut the part where DeSantis carefully explains why the reporter's narrative is wrong.
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The suggestion that the ordinance could have prevented Monday's mass shooting is utterly implausible.
The leader of the mob follows the victim to the gallows.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
The full video shows that Jay Baker was paraphrasing what Robert Aaron Long told investigators about his motivations.
Profuse apologizing was not enough to save Alexi McCammond.
He said plenty of other bad things. But more than one quote sourced to anonymous informants has turned out to be wrong.
The comparison poses a puzzle for people who believe lockdowns were crucial in controlling the pandemic.
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The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
"Silicon Valley's Safe Space" has misinformed readers.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
While the administration symbolically ended Trump's "zero tolerance" approach, it has not put an end to family separations outright.
The tweet was neither anti-Semitic nor "fake news."
Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro persistently promoted the wild claims of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
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You want more censorship? Go ahead, repeal Section 230.
At a time when legacy publications are increasingly seen as playing for one political "team" or the other, this type of editorial decision will not do anything to fix that perception.
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Whatever lies the press is telling us, they are ones that at least some of us want to hear.
The First Amendment doesn't come with an exception for "disinformation."
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
"I’m going to remind myself, you started something," Jimmy Galligan told the paper. "You taught someone a lesson.”
Press coverage of the pandemic tends to exaggerate risk and ignore encouraging information.
The National Bureau of Economic Research finds that U.S. media coverage of the pandemic is far bleaker than in other countries.
The Netflix release paints a picture of movie-industry arrogance, smugness, hypocrisy, and condescension—especially when it comes to politics.
Bob Bryant was infected with COVID-19 while on vacation and died. A news story tries to link that to church services.
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Trump is a wannabe despot, but let's not pretend the other side is flawless.
As independent thinkers exit mainstream institutions, groupthink and blind spots are likely to get worse.
Although the Halloween scare stories continue, journalists are starting to recognize the lack of evidence to support this mythical menace.
The progressive outlet's co-founder claims he was prevented from publishing an article because it was critical of Joe Biden.
The Hunter Biden story has exposed the media's selective skepticism.
No, it’s not “bad for democracy” to keep giving a platform to the President of the United States.
Journalists should correct the story rather than pretend it doesn't exist.
If that standard were applied to other constitutional rights, no one would be left to enforce them.
Transparency is only for the little people, it would seem.
"It says a lot about an organization when it breaks it's [sic] own rules and goes after one of it's [sic] own," the union tweeted. "The act, like the article, reeks."
Trump's rhetoric is often wrong, but that does not make it the underlying cause of every cruel or criminal event that transpires while he is president.
Climate activists call a video "misleading" not because it's factually inaccurate, but because it doesn't say what they want it to.
Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
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