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A Pair of Colossal Media Failures

February 6, 2023 10:12 amFebruary 7, 2023 3:44 pm

This week has produced two of the most stunning, wide-ranging and humiliating revelations in the history of American media. Bombshell No. 1. Hunter Biden has acknowledged that the laptop is his. The laptop denied by the entirety of the mainstream...

Three Personal Interactions with the Media’s Darkest Two Years

March 26, 2019 12:20 pmMarch 16, 2022 12:26 pm

If you heard a primal scream emanating from 22nd Street yesterday, that was me reading the Vanity Fair headline “The Hard Truths and High Cost of the RussiaGate Scandal.” We have endured a ton of awful reporting over the last...

Adam Schiff Is Blindly Credulous toward Website’s Debunked ‘Scoop’

January 21, 2019 11:21 amJanuary 23, 2019 6:06 am

News stories spark congressional investigations all the time. But whoever heard of a discredited news story sparking an investigation about charges that were already debunked by the person charged with investigating them? Probably nobody until the era of Donald Trump,...