The media’s big Benghazi test: Will they get snookered (again) by the discredited outfit’s leaks?

Self-proclaimed "War Correspondent" and serial fabricator Bill O'Reilly once again humiliated by people who deal in actual facts.

"Garbage, Total B.S.": Reagan Aides And Biographers Blast Chronic Fabricator Bill O'Reilly Over New Book

 aflanigan wrote: 
Yes, it should. I find it more sad than 'horrific'.

What do you think? Should this photo have been published by media outlets?

News Organizations That Chose Not to Run the Most Horrific Photo of the Dead Syrian Boy Were Wrong

Move over, Jeff Gannon. Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News is ready to assume your mantle as the conservative journalist most likely to win a Pulitzer Prize for his hard hitting, no-holds-barred journalism!

The Right's Most Inept News Site 

Brian Williams also fought in the Civil War. He was under heavy fire.

Very sad for Canada but if you can't have good news, this is how to have the right news.

Canada’s CBC News Shows What Thoughtful Breaking News Coverage Really Looks Like

 aflanigan wrote: 
of all the points to be made, the point of no return is at least important, and at most less than desirable.
So, to make of nonsense more than pointed reflection is a gaudy opportunity for clarity...

 oldviolin wrote: 
But that means that you and I are pointless as well for chiming in on this topic, I suppose.

Maybe being pointless isn't such a bad thing, after all.

 aflanigan wrote: 
It doesn't really matter does it? Well, that is unless there's higher ground with the no-vacancy signs abundant...oh, but that would mean objectivity is vacationing there...maybe? I'm sure the modus operandi of every other adversary are as pristine as are every other practitioner of intellectual darts. IOW, at some point it's all as pointless as gravity in a vacuum chamber. *shrug*

Fox News Reportedly Used Fake Commenter Accounts to Rebut Critical Blog Posts

Wonder how many of them found their way to RP over the last several years, and if any are still lurking . . .

Greenwald deserts Guardian for media co-op | Jonathan Cook's Blog

In the video (above), Jeremy Scahill fills out a little more detail on the new media venture he, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras are working on. Good to hear that they don’t intend to have a boss or be subject to the interference of editors.

They are obviously hoping to create some sort of journalist cooperative. That’s a model I’m all in favour of, though one wonders what kind of agreement they will need in place to ensure their financial backer, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, does not have editorial influence.

I find it revealing that Scahill says the three of them have been talking about this for a while, and well before Omidyar approached them. He mentions that the new venture will be “journalist-driven” and not “hindered by bureaucratic institutions or processes”.

The fact that these three senior journalists feel the need to liberate themselves and their work from traditional media organisations more than hints at the restrictions that operate within the mainstream media, even for the most established and influential journalists.

Greenwald, for example, wouldn’t be breaking away from the Guardian if that paper was already offering him real independence.

Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization

Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought The Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand-new, large-scale, broadly focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.

Greenwald, 46, published revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the extent of American and British domestic spying and about officials’ deception about its scope. He said he is departing for a new, “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” with major financial backing, the details of which will be public soon.“My partnership with The Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved,” Greenwald said in an emailed statement. “The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline.” (...)

 aflanigan wrote: 
when time allows you should look at politics...

Perhaps there is no other career besides political pundit in which one gets so handsomely rewarded after being so infamously, publicly, and profoundly incorrect.

Fox Renews Karl Rove Contract Through 2016

 aflanigan wrote: 

Something I have been saying throughout the whole election.

An interesting article, their thesis meshes fairly well with the post election articles pointing out how much of the conservative press/media (Fox News, etc.) got the story wrong in the lead-up to the presidential election.  Was the failure to report on the dismal state of Romney's election prospects driven by the desire of outfits like FreedomWorks to make money?

The Conservative Movement is Still an Elaborate Moneymaking Venture

 Umberdog wrote: 

What will I look at the pictures in in waiting rooms?

I started reading Newsweek when I was 10 years old. I know things change but...

Newsweek Will No Longer Be a Print Magazine