Your source to mainline mainstream media misdeeds and malpractice.
We bid farewell to the unfair Brian Stelter, who held his final episode of Reliable Sources on Sunday. It was filled primarily with many of his trademarked elements — that is, the kind of stuff that got him fired. Lefty journos, stern warnings about fighting misinformation, and pretending that he was the bastion of proper and unbiased news coverage. I featured his final words, and believe it or not, actually agreed with his last sentence. It also showed his firing was justified.
Then we look at the New York Times and a pair of daft entries. One finds a problem with the American Dream. The other looks for problems with conservative media. Considering the man they hired for the new role has a history with stark misinformation himself, this is bound to go awry quickly. There is also the AP making more dumb revisions to its style guide, and an actor fights back at supposed lies in Florida by telling actual lies about the state.
Now crack one open and enjoy some media mayhem.
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- The last Reliable Sources – ever – still saw Brian Stelter leaning left, in order to lean on the right.
- Variety is touting that Brian’s last show had great numbers…if almost half of Howie Kurtz’s on Media Buzz is “great.”
- The closing comments from Brian Stelter’s final monologue on Reliable Sources.
- NY Times tries to find something dire about GOP minorities supporting “The American Dream.”
- Meanwhile, The Times starts up a conservative media division, and their choice to lead it is a misinformation icon.
- When it comes to inanimate objects and weather systems, the AP wants to be sure you are not being insensitive.
- Actor Mark Hamill and teachers union president Randi Weingarten fall for a fake Florida banned book list.
