Posts Tagged fact-checking
Losing the News, Part 2
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on June 23rd, 2011
The response to yesterday’s announcement of more layoffs at the Star has been significant, and almost uniformly mournful. Comments on Facebook, responses to posts on this and other blogs, and on the Star’s own site have generally reflected the fact that communities all over the country are in the process of losing something valuable, and [...]
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Losing Facts
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on June 12th, 2011
I came to my computer keyboard this morning prepared to rant about the ever-growing dismissal of facts in favor of more useful spin–and increasingly, out-and-out lies. I was still annoyed by an email forwarded by a friend of mine, who sent it not because he agreed with it, but in order to demonstrate “what’s out [...]
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Intellectual Honesty and Facebook
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 19th, 2009
The pitfalls of our new social media environments are widely discussed, if not quite as widely understood. A recent personal experience brought that point home to me rather vividly. A couple of days ago, I posted an angry comment to Facebook about Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, and their apparent willingness to kill health insurance reform. In [...]
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Journalism’s Responsibility?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 9th, 2009
In a recent blog post at Political Animal, Steve Benen addressed the decision of the Washington Post to run an op-ed on climate change written (okay, probably ghost-written, since she’s given no hint that she’s familiar with the English language) by Sarah Palin. The problem isn’t just that the paper published another right-wing piece from [...]
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