Media Mythbusters Blog

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
I suppose I should find it somewhat comforting to note that the international press is just as lazy as the American media, but when the subject is as deadly-serious as alleging a nuclear weapons attack, “comforting” is not the word that comes to mind.
The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out […]

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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Not to be hyper-critical, but is this supposed to be a photo, or a photo-illustration?

I only ask because the object in the sky in this photo is as seems as bright as the sun, and yet, the soldier is clearly looking through a nightvision monocular mounted to his helmet. I suspect that […]

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Cross-posted at the Democracy Project:
By: Bruce Kesler
One of the sources of media error is the printing as news the press releases of interest groups, coupled with the failure to perform even elementary fact-checking on the subject or source.
Here’s an illustration, in which the source could have easily (it took me literally 30-seconds at Google) been […]

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