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Bananas Journalism In reporting that Chiquita Brands “admitted it had paid $1.7 million to a Columbian paramilitary unit . . . over a six-year period,” USA Today’s David Lynch (10/30/07) framed the story with this lead: “At first, the allegations in a federal courtroom sounded like the sort of thing conspiracy-minded college freshmen dream up […]
When an apparent airstrike by Israel against Syria on September 6 was eventually linked to accusations of a secret Syrian nuclear program, the striking thing about the often muddled reporting was how much the credulous reaction to unsubstantiated claims resembled the similarly uncritical reporting about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction. When the airstrike was […]
