After the Trump administration announced the resignation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Reuters thought it was a good idea to run a live stream video feed of Spicer’s home. WATCH LIVE: The scene outside Sean Spicer’s house following the announcement of his resignation https://t.co/2ZsikaLPnv pic.twitter.com/0tYapl6hxs — Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) July 21, 2017 Considering […]
Three employees at CNN resigned after CNN retracted a story on the Russia collusion story, even naming a Trump supporter in the story. CNN has since offered an apology, but the damage to their reputation was done. Social media was awash with accusations of ‘fake news’ from Trump supporters, lobbed at CNN after the retraction […]
The story around Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee worker who was shot dead in Washington, D.C., became a conspiracy theory. Some surmised that he was the staffer who leaked e-mails to WikiLeaks and Russia, and was murdered as a part of a cover-up. The D.C. police said it was a botched robbery attempt and […]
Per a new study, journalists have a poor diet and consume too many alcoholic drinks (the following is excerpted from the study): “Less than 5% of journalists drank enough water (recommended at approximately 8 glasses a day, or 500ml for every 15kg of body weight). “On average journalists drank around 3 glasses of water a […]
Journalists are not exactly neutral with the Trump administration, but it is a two-way street. A Communications@Syracuse blog post recently asked several D.C.-based journalists, editors and producers on their thoughts on the Trump administration’s relationship with the press. Much of the feedback focused on how the Trump administration has been disorganized and how they have declared […]
Hard-hitting journalism, indeed. CNN took a look at who President Trump follows at his @realdonaldtrump Twitter account. He follows 41 accounts, ranging from his family, the Trump organization, Trump administration officials and other political and business allies such as Vince McMahon. They did two pieces: one was a list of accounts he follows, and the […]
Nate Silver, the statistician who correctly predicted the 2012 electoral results, wrote an interesting and insightful piece entitled, “There Really Was a Liberal Media Bubble,” at his website FiveThirtyEight. As the headline suggests, the topic was the liberal media bias in the 2016 election cycle. Silver pointed out, among several, how groupthink affected the media’s […]
A nineteen-second handshake made the headlines at CNN, where Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shook hands after meeting in the Oval Office at the White House. Nothing else substantive to cover in the Trump-Abe meeting?
Even CNN highlighted a columnist named Michael Wolff who called out their own Brian Stelter (host of the CNN show “Reliable Sources”) and the rest of the journalism field for panicking over every move that the Trump White House makes: The Hollywood Reporter columnist and Newsweek writer told CNN’s Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” Sunday […]
At least NBC News did their homework and verified the information they received from their source at the intelligence agencies, right? Still, an unverified report is an unverified report and should not be published until details are confirmed. Buzzfeed claimed they want to be transparent in publishing their report, but at least get the details […]
