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The Monkeyfisher: an Award for the Year’s Worst Journalism

So much for ‘Reliable Sources’!

As a crusty, curmudgeonly original CNN special assignment correspondent from the early 1980s, I have used these pages more than once to vent about the second-rate dingbats who have...

Journalism Matters- All the news that fits in an addled world - Park Record

Journalism Matters- All the news that fits in an addled world - Park Record

Bari Weiss Facing Credible Allegations Of Doing Journalism

NEW YORK, NY — Interviews conducted with employees of CBS News revealed that Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was facing internal backlash over allegations that she had attempted to comm...

Media Accused of ‘Covering For’ JoAnna Mendoza

Dana Bash Exposes the Failures of U.S. Journalism

CNN's Dana Bash set out to ridicule RFK Jr. on State of the Union. Instead, Kennedy's barrage of facts exposed the failures of legacy journalism.

Wrong, Reno Gazette Journal, a Flawed Climate Study Doesn’t Prove Future Desertification for Reno

Good science depends on testing assumptions against reality. Good journalism depends on questioning scientific claims before presenting them to the public as proven. In this case,...

New York Times You Gotta Change Your Evil Ways

by cotobuzz at CDN - As Dolly Parton might say: The New York Times goes through a great expense to make its product read like cheap tabloid journalism: The CotoBuzz Journal Watcht...

It’s always easy to blame the media but that is not where the fault lies

It was inevitable that anger would turn on the media for publishing the stories which wrecked Jason Arday’s reputation

NYT Gets a Head Start in Advocacy Journalism and Journalistic Malpractice. The Obliterating of the Wall Between News and...

by cotobuzz at CDN - The coverage patterns observed in The New York Times reporting on the August 2026 Head Start deregulation follow the exact same strategic blueprint as its SNA...

Channel 14's version of journalism: Hound a vulnerable target and harass them

Donovan’s Deep Dives: How and why a nonstory blew up in the news media

Fake News: The Long History

In 1896, a daring journalist covering the Cuban revolution against their colonial masters crossed the Spanish lines three times to interview insurgent leaders. William Francis Mann...

One Injury Done To Journalism By One Journalist Is An Injury To All Journalists

The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. Th...

Why we need to return to accountability reporting

As the spotlight turns on how the press treated Professor Jason Arday, what should journalists consider?

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THE NEXT JOURNALISM

Rosenstiel, a press critic and journalism professor, presents a solid case that news organizations’ problems are bigger than they realize. Along with declining public trust and cou...

NYT article “Ex-Official at Civil Rights Group Is Charged in Plot to Misuse Far-Right Informants” Gets Failing Grade

by cotobuzz at CDN -  We ran the  New York Times article “Ex-Official at Civil Rights Group Is Charged in Plot to Misuse Far-Right Informants” (Alan Feuer, Aug. 12, 2026) Through...

NYT Fauci Selective Stenography: The Fine Print of Modern Journalistic Malpractice & Charlie Brown

by cotobuzz at CDN - When does fact-checking become a protective shield? From the Fauci hearings to election vulnerabilities, legacy media outlets have abandoned investigative ske...

The NY Times Glosses Over Jason Arday's Questionable Biography

Media’s Misleading Voting Coverage Poses Dangers 

The press mischar...

NYT: “Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens.” – Cheap Tabloid Journalism

by cotobuzz at CDN - “To Make it Read Like Cheap Tabloid Journalism is Expensive” – Dolly Parton The NYT social card for the Aug. 28, 2026 piece “Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four...

Did the media fall short in its reporting on Graham Platner? | Margaret Sullivan

The twisting road to the candidate’s exit left a lot to be desired. But ultimately, reporters ferreted out the truthAfter the New York Times published an article in early June abou...

Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change, New Study Shows

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