Frack-tion of the truth
A New York Times story criticizing natural gas fracking raises controversy. [Ira Stoll, more, Diana Furchtgott-Roth] Tweet Tags: media bias, New York state, New York Times, oil industry Frack-tion of...
View ArticleThe “Halliburton rape” case: setting the record straight
Remember the “Halliburton rape” case, where the national media uncritically passed along claims that a young woman had been viciously assaulted by co-workers while stationed in the Middle East, then...
View ArticleKim Strassel: “Stringing Up Gibson Guitar”
Kim Strassel has a must-read piece at the Wall Street Journal exposing the politics of the Lacey Act’s extension to importation of plant products, by no means fueled just by inflexible environmentalist...
View ArticleTrying cases in the press
Yes, media coverage does affect the outcome of court cases, and here are some of the ways [Andrew Trask] Tweet Tags: judges, media, media bias Trying cases in the press is a post from Overlawyered -...
View Article“Relax, folks, it really is honey after all”
Dan Charles at NPR reports on how parts of the media joined in last month to hype a report by journalist Andrew Schneider in Food Safety News raising alarms about the safety and authenticity of honey....
View ArticleMarch 5 roundup
Trial lawyer TV: mistranslation, plaintiff’s experts were instrumental in “Anderson Cooper 360″ CNN story trying to keep sudden-acceleration theory alive [Corp Counsel, Toyota, PDF, background] “Can I...
View ArticleiPhone’s hellish Chinese workplace: the sequel
“This American Life” has retracted a much-discussed news segment about the horrors of Apple’s Shenzhen, China workplace after discovering it was faked; Mike Daisey’s report contained “numerous...
View ArticleMisleading audio clips and media transparency
In one of the standout instances of media misconduct during the run-up to the recent furor, NBC repeatedly aired, on “Today” and other shows, audio footage misleadingly edited so as to advance the...
View ArticleDon’t cooperate with Washington reporters!
Quoth Warren Burger to Harry Blackmun, following Blackmun’s nomination to the Supreme Court [April 27, 1970 letter via Kyle Graham] Tweet Tags: media bias, Supreme Court Don’t cooperate with Washington...
View ArticleGreat moments in litigation journalism
In the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Ivey DeJesus trumpets the views of a “leading legal expert,” specifically “one of the country’s leading church and state scholars” who says, contrary to a state...
View ArticleVance v. Ball State: the press miscoverage begins
There’s an awful lot of — well, confusion is one way to put it — in the early commentary on yesterday’s Supreme Court case Vance v. Ball State, on the scope of supervisorial liability in harassment...
View ArticlePress, lawyers, advocacy groups, and the misreporting of the Martin-Zimmerman...
Cathy Young arraigns the press for “an ideology-based, media-driven false narrative that has distorted a tragedy into a racist outrage.” Bob Somerby at Daily Howler has been documenting chapter and...
View ArticleHow Langewiesche got that Vanity Fair story
I’ve expressed skepticism before about William Langewiesche’s 12,600-word 2007 article in Vanity Fair on the Chevron-Ecuador dispute, which took a line relentlessly sympathetic to the case of...
View ArticleLangewiesche responds to Garvin
Via p.r. agent Karen Hinton, William Langewiesche has now responded in our comments section (as well as elsewhere) to Glenn Garvin’s critical Miami Herald column (linked here) regarding Langewiesche’s...
View ArticleExecutive suites and social justice at the NYT, one draft at a time
Get me rewrite! The New York Times’s initial story on the departure of interim chief executive Ellen Pao from social media community Reddit lacked egregious bias, so the paper went back to insert some....
View ArticleThe press and the prosecutors
Did federal prosecutors manipulate Los Angeles Times reporting to help win a case? Even if editors don’t care, readers might [Ken White, Popehat]. Read the whole thing, but here’s one choice quote: The...
View Article“Wisconsin’s ‘John Doe’ Raids Two Years Later”
Caleb Brown interviews Eric O’Keefe on the abusive Wisconsin John Doe prosecution of alleged unlawful campaign coordination, much covered in this space. O’Keefe says the growing scope of campaign...
View ArticleClimate deniers as “enemy of the state”
Secretary of State John Kerry says he’ll “leave it to other people” whether ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers should be considered “an enemy of the state,” as urged by a Rolling Stone interviewer [James...
View Article“Truth won out over partisanship, as it should.”
If you didn’t follow the Leif Olson episode last week, here’s the nutshell version: the Bloomberg Law news operation ran a wildly unfair piece attacking a newly appointed Labor Department official;...
View Article“Truth won out over partisanship, as it should.”
If you didn’t follow the Leif Olson episode last week, here’s the nutshell version: the Bloomberg Law news operation ran a wildly unfair piece attacking a newly appointed Labor Department official;...
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