John Merrow: Bad Reporting about the Pandemic and School Reopenings
John Merrow is exasperated by the media narrative that it’s only the teachers’ unions that are blocking the reopening of schools. Of course, students should...
Category : Media
Why Amazon Shut Down Right-Wing Site Parler
The New York Daily News published messages released by Amazon to defend its decision to boot the right-wing Parler off its site. Amazon sought to...
An Epitaph for Donald Trump’s Twitter Account
This is a clever farewell to @realDonald Trump, banished for life from Twitter, at last! As someone said on Twitter in response, how will people...
Peter Greene: The Washington Post Editorial Board Are the Know-Nothings of U.S. Education
Major newspaper editorial boards love standardized testing. They write from a position of complete ignorance of how useless these tests are and how little information...
Twitter Temporarily Suspends Trump’s Account
At the end of a shameful day, in which Trump claimed falsely (again) that he had won in a landslide, Twitter announced that it was...
Lou Dobbs Forced to Retract Libelous Claims on Air
The Washington Post reported that FOX Business News commentator, Lou Dobbs, a big fan of Trump’s, was compelled to air a segment retracting his statements...
FAIR: Why Is the New York Times Cheerleading to Reopen Schools?
The organization Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting writes that the New York Times has become a “cheerleader” for reopening the schools as the COVID surges...
Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv: We Must Teach Students to Recognize Misinformation
Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv, professor and student at Stanford University, maintain that it is crucial to teach students how to recognize misinformation, a point...
Bill Moyers Recommends These Documentaries Before Election Day
Bill Moyers is one of our most respected commentators on current affairs. I had the good fortune to be interviewed by him some years ago,...
The New Republic: “Newsweek” Has Turned into “A Zombie Magazine”
Alex Shephard writes in the latest issue of The New Republic that something odd has happened to Newsweek. It has become an outlet for rightwing...