The Miami Herald‘s Fuzzy Math Makes Case for Economic Warfare on Cuba
The Miami Herald’s exposé of a Cuban state enterprise appears to be based on a willful misreading of a financial document.
Journalists Back on the Chained Gang
Don’t expect much help from corporate media on understanding the “Chained CPI,” because selling the “grand bargain” requires citizens not really knowing what this part of the deal entails.
Why Is the Erosion of the U.S. Constitution Mostly of Interest to Canadians?
The list of First Amendment–trampling rules for Guantánamo reporters makes for dispiriting reading in today’s New York Times (7/21/10)—e.g., “If information the government deems protected is inadvertently disclosed, the Pentagon can order reporters not to reveal it.” But perhaps the most discouraging part of Jeremy Peters’ article is the list of reporters who fell afoul […]
Swine Flu ‘a Case Study in Reckless Journalism’
Writing that “the swine flu outbreak that wrecked Mexico’s economy this spring, and that the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic last month, may become a case study in reckless journalism,” Miami Herald Latin America correspondent Andres Oppenheimer (7/8/09) admits that he “had taken it for granted that the disease had started in Mexico” […]
