The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
Right-leaning media have used the uptick in certain crime categories to argue we need more cops and law enforcement to save our cities.
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
Murdoch Paper Gives Away the Game: Cuomo Is on Their Side
The New York Post is letting slip that although the media tend to view the Cuomo scandals as a Democratic problem, the political and economic stakes here involve an aggressively center-right executive against a liberal legislature.
Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters
The New York Post cannot and will not give up its obsessive, cruel and deranged fascination with shaming homeless people.
The ‘Total Anarchy’ of Wet Cops
For some, seeing a cop humiliated suggests a breakdown of society in a way that seeing a cop engaging in the humiliation and abuse of a black person does not.
Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
As consensus emerges not just around the science of climate change, but also its amplifying effects on extreme weather events, Murdoch’s media empire—and the Republican Party that its talking points inform—will remain the last holdout.
For Halloween, NY Post Dresses Up ‘Anarchist Plot’ Warning as Journalism
Keeping up the tradition of seasonal scares, the New York Post published a story about a potential “Halloween Revolt”: an attack by anarchists on police nationwide.
Action Alert: New York Post Gets Ethel Rosenberg History Wrong
The New York Post reported that ” Ethel Rosenberg…was executed with her husband for treason.” That’s just wrong, and deserves a correction.
Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
The media-driven conversation on policing and public safety begins with the simplistic premise that the amount and aggressiveness of policing solely determines the crime rate.
‘He Just Made It Up’: New York Post Accused of Fabrication in Machete Lawsuit Story
For NYPD officials, the New York Post report was a perfect example of why the NYPD needed millions of dollars to fight “frivolous” lawsuits. But there’s a problem: One of the key details of the report appears to have been made up out of whole cloth.
David Gregory—and Other Famous Left-Wingers
The New York Post refers to Meet the Press’s “famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.” A quick overview of Gregory’s record doesn’t turn up much evidence of leaning to the left–but plenty to the contrary.
Criminal Justice Media’s ‘Twisted’ Coverage
Daryl Khan of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange strayed from most media coverage around New York’s “biggest gang raid ever” by writing about the people living in the housing projects at the heart of the early-morning raid.
Sharpton and the Media’s Cat-and-Mouse Game
Both the New York Post and the Daily News sensationalized, for the second day in a row, revelations that Al Sharpton was an informant for the FBI. Revelations first alluded to in 1988 by Newsday, to be specific.
NY Post’s Stop-and-Frisk Scare
The New York Post is suggesting New York City is seeing the beginning of a scary crime wave. Turns out (surprise!) the Post is mostly full of it.
New York Times to New Yorkers: You’re Supporting the Wrong Mayoral Candidate!
A New York Times story headlined “Poll Finds Support for de Blasio, if Not All His Ideas” could have more accurately been called “Poll Finds Support for de Blasio, Along With Most of His Ideas”
SoundBites March 2013
If It Weren’t for Those Meddling Iranians “This demonstrates the ever pernicious Iranian meddling in other countries in the region.” —unnamed U.S. official complaining to Reuters (1/28/13) about Iran allegedly sending arms to Yemen, where the U.S. is conducting a secret drone war Extreme Weather, Unexplained NBC Nightly News (1/13/13) asked a serious question, […]
Phony Occupy Link to Weapons Cache
It’s bad enough to treat a unsubstantiated claim by a partisan news outlet, with a record of sensational misinformation on the same subject, as a relevant fact in a story. But how do you justify using this junk journalism as a chance to let a source give free rein to his fantasies of how Occupy might take a turn towards violence?
The Broken Link Between OWS and a Murder
“OWS MURDER LINK.” That’s how the New York Post‘s front page (7/11/12) announced a report that DNA from a 2004 crime scene had supposedly been matched with DNA from a chain used to hold open a subway gate in an Occupy Wall Street protest. Inside, under the headline “OWS Link to ’04 Gal Slay,” the […]
Obama’s Not Quite Silver Spoon Swipe UPDATED
Last week Barack Obama declared some sort of class war on Mitt Romney–at least that’s what Fox, the New York Post and a few other outlets would have you believe. On April 18, Obama gave a speech at a community college touting, among other things, a rather common only-in-America underdog spirit: Somebody gave me an […]
When You Take Murdoch’s Leftovers, You Get Murdoch’s Sleaze
Real estate developer and media mogul Mort Zuckerman has picked Colin Myler to be the new top editor for his New York tabloid, the Daily News. That’s a surprising choice on at least a couple of accounts. One is that Myler’s last job was at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, which was shut down […]
