October 30, 20205 yr Author Censorship: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
October 30, 20205 yr Pee tapes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8894967/Russian-source-Trumps-dossier-describes-palm-reader-loves-nudity.html
October 31, 20205 yr Author 4 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: Russian disinformation. Nothing to see here. Move along.
November 1, 20205 yr Check out this editors note that now appears at the beginning of an article in The Atlantic. How dare you call them fake news? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/ Editor’s Note: After The Atlantic published this article, new information emerged that has raised serious concerns about its accuracy, and about the credibility of the author, Ruth Shalit Barrett.We have established that Barrett deceived The Atlantic and its readers about a section of the story that concerns a person referred to as "Sloane.” We are sharing with our readers what we have learned so far.The original version of this article stated that Sloane has a son. Before publication, Sloane confirmed this detail to be true to The Atlantic’s fact-checking department. After publication, when a Washington Post media critic asked us about the accuracy of portions of the article, our fact-checking department reached out to Sloane to recheck certain details. Through her attorney, Sloane informed us that she does not, in fact, have a son. We have independently corroborated that Sloane does not have a son, and we have corrected the story to remove the reference to her having a son.In explaining Sloane’s reasoning for telling our fact-checker she had a son, Sloane’s attorney told The Atlantic that she wanted to make herself less readily identifiable. Her attorney also said that according to Sloane, Barrett had first proposed the invention of a son, and encouraged Sloane to deceive The Atlantic as a way to protect her anonymity.When we asked Barrett about these allegations, she initially denied them, saying that Sloane had told her she had a son, and that she had believed Sloane. The next day, when we questioned her again, she admitted that she was "complicit” in "compounding the deception” and that "it would not be fair to Sloane” to blame her alone for deceiving The Atlantic. Barrett denies that the invention of a son was her idea, and denies advising Sloane to mislead The Atlantic’s fact-checkers, but told us that "on some level I did know that it was BS” and "I do take responsibility.”Sloane’s attorney claimed that there are several other errors about Sloane in the article but declined to provide The Atlantic with examples. Barrett says that the fabricated son is the only detail about which she deceived our fact-checkers and editors. Our fact-checking department is continuing to thoroughly recheck the article.We have already corrected and clarified other details in the story. During the initial fact-checking process, we corroborated many details of Sloane’s story with sources other than Sloane. But the checking of some details of Sloane’s story relied solely on interviews and other communications with Sloane or her husband or both of them.We have clarified a detail about a neck injury sustained by Sloane’s middle daughter, to be more precise about its severity. We have corrected a detail about a thigh injury, originally described as a deep gash but more accurately described as a skin rupture that bled through a fencing uniform. And we’ve corrected the location of a lacrosse family mentioned in the article: They do not live in Greenwich, Connecticut, but in another town in Fairfield County.On October 22, we noted and corrected another error in the story: The article originally referenced Olympic-size backyard hockey rinks, but although the private rinks are large and equipped with floodlights and generators, they are not Olympic-size.We are also updating Barrett’s byline. Originally, we referred to her as Ruth S. Barrett. When writing recently for other magazines, Barrett was identified by her full name, Ruth Shalit Barrett. (Barrett is her married name.) In 1999, when she was known by Ruth Shalit, she left The New Republic, where she was an associate editor, after plagiarism and inaccurate reporting were discovered in her work. We typically defer to authors on how their byline appears—some authors use middle initials, for example, or shorter versions of their given name. We referred to Barrett as Ruth S. Barrett at her request, but in the interest of transparency, we should have included the name that she used as her byline in the 1990s, when the plagiarism incidents occurred. We have changed the byline on this article to Ruth Shalit Barrett.We decided to assign Barrett this freelance story in part because more than two decades separated her from her journalistic malpractice at The New Republic and because in recent years her work has appeared in reputable magazines. We took into consideration the argument that Barrett deserved a second chance to write feature stories such as this one. We were wrong to make this assignment, however. It reflects poor judgment on our part, and we regret our decision.We are continuing to review this article. We will correct any errors we find, and we will communicate our findings to our readers as speedily as possible.
November 23, 20205 yr Former producer Ariana Pekary explains why she left MSNBC: It's the same reason why Cable TV news is the pits: It's entertainment, they want conflict because they find it is interesting. They do not seek to inform.
November 23, 20205 yr 10 minutes ago, toolg said: Former producer Ariana Pekary explains why she left MSNBC: It's the same reason why Cable TV news is the pits: It's entertainment, they want conflict because they find it is interesting. They do not seek to inform. That's because anyone watching cable news every day isn't seeking information, they're seeking validation.
December 1, 20205 yr 21 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: ahhh, the good ole days when this was our greatest political scandal.
December 1, 20205 yr 43 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: joe biden is your president Public school civics right here. Check the date. Donald Trump is still your president.
December 1, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Alpha_TATEr said: lame duck president right now. a lame duck being worshipped by lame cucks! bam!
December 1, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, The_Omega said: Public school civics right here. Check the date. Donald Trump is still your president. Beta, beta, beta! Good to see you. How many heads ya think are gonna roll from O'Keefe's latest bombshell?
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