Cherry picking: Everyone wants to spin the story
Pick cherries to make whatever flavor of cherry pie you want.
Media: Two guys prank the media pretending to be laid off Twitter workers
Two guys in San Francisco pranked the media by standing outside Twitter HQ and pretending to me laid off Twitter employees. The media fell for the hoax.
Media: Fake Trump Twitter statement dupes the media
Been quite a week for media bloopers: A number of media and political personalities shared the statement with their followers and viewers, including newly minted MSNBC host Alex Wagner. “In the rush of reporting on Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter we included some bad information about Donald Trump’s reaction to the deal. We regret the error,” the Twitter account for Wagner’s show wrote late Thursday evening after her show noted the fake statement. Conservative media personality Dinesh D’Souza also shared the fake…
Bizarre: Writers and publishers come out in favor of censorship
Writers, editors, publishers demand that Penguin Random House censor a book while simultaneously saying they favor free speech and this is not censorship.
Two days ago: Do accurate details matter in forming an argument?
Reporter for the UK Independent newspaper, Eric Michael Garcia, wrote an entire story saying SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas met with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis one day before the Roe versus Wade “abortion” ruling. But the story was easy shown as false. Garcia has apologized and the entire story has been retracted. Details matter, except it seems, in the media.