#journalisticmalpractice — Public Fediverse posts

"Spoiler: nothing changed. No public interest AI regulation was (or will be) passed. None of the biggest tech giants will be held accountable for anything. Nobody's actually 'pacing the frontier', slowing down their pursuit of power or wealth, or implementing meaningful guardrails.

Those outcomes require adult conversations about the fact America is being dismantled by corruption. And our media doesn't do that because ownership enjoys its front row seat at the trough. Instead, we were treated to an irresponsible and collaborative *work of fiction*."

Lazy Journalism at the End of the World
by @KarlBode
September 24th, 2026

https://karlbode.com/lazy-journalism-at-the-end-of-the-world/

#AI #AIisaConGame #JournalisticMalpractice

Why can’t people figure out that any article that begins with “Trump says” should be immediately thrown in the trash?

#Trump #JournalisticMalpractice

The difference is by design.

(Stolen to provide alt text.)

#journalism #JournalisticMalpractice #propaganda #WorldPolitics #worldpol #NYT #NYTimes

I did NOT know this. Why is it in an opinion essay and not in news stories about Trump’s immigration rants? #journalisticMalpractice “Sixty years ago, the United States abolished immigration restrictions based on nationality alone. By 1965, such discrimination had become an embarrassment.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uvqzxw2z57rc7mzjtl7fmnxh/post/3m7exwokgrk25

@slashdot

Between Slashdot and the cited Wired article, the only source provided is a Microsoft employee who *certainly* had no reason to be less than honest.

Giving them far more credit than they deserve, I want to see the published findings and methods

Using my brain along with the available evidence, I think I’ll just disregard this nonsense on its face

#journalisticmalpractice
#getdemclicksdoe
#whytryharder

Hey The News? Your headlines about the ego parade are appalling. Know what really brought "1000s" out to DC? #NoKings Millions if you count every state. Stop glorifying Trump's ego fest. He called the military "suckers/losers," he uses them as props, he exploits them. #JournalisticMalpractice

Hey The News? Your headlines about the ego parade are appalling. Know what really brought "1000s" out to DC? #NoKings Millions if you count every state. Stop glorifying Trump's ego fest. He called the military "suckers/losers," he uses them as props, he exploits them. #JournalisticMalpractice

Are you KIDDING me!? #JournalisticMalpractice

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3lqs6flfhmr2y

the full line is "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox." (emphasis mine)

That's legalese for "when you use firefox to put data on the internet, you can't sue us for putting that data on the internet bc telling our browser to send your data somewhere is the same as giving us permission to do that"

This is a completely reasonable thing for them to state; to cut the quote off as in the OP is at best misleading and at worst malicious and inflammatory.

#mozilla #firefox #internetprivacy #journalisticmalpractice

RE: https://mstdn.io/users/jomo/statuses/114072136787385688

TAG OF THE DAY: #JournalisticMalpractice

The NYT fact-checked Trump’s news conference.
Stop with the stand alone and separate stories.
Report Tя☭mp lies and half-truths in every story.

#USPolitics
#TrumpLies
#journalisticMalpractice
#giftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/politics/trump-news-conference-fact-check.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE4.Op5q.oKIygS1frea9&smid=url-share

I hope @mediabiasfactcheck or others put some actual effort into studying the insane media bias that stained the entire 2024 election cycle, from reminding us every 5 minutes that Biden is old and questioning his mental fitness constantly, to writing excuses for Stupid and suddenly ceasing to find any interest in age and mental fitness once Harris took the torch, to the relentless sanewashing of Stupid while holding Harris to a far higher standard, even back to the months and year prior to the election, when they were constantly banging the drum of a recession that never happened and giving people the impression that the economy was terrible, despite all evidence to the contrary.

The media not only failed to educate people about what was really going on, they actively participated in promulgating the distortion perceived by the public.

#MediaBias #MediaPropaganda #JournalisticMalpractice #Journalism

There are so many words to describe Trump's plans:

Horrific

Authoritarian

Potentially illegal

Fascist

Unamerican

Destructive

Racist

Corrupt

Yet, just like always, modern journalists do their part to sanewash, carefully picking their words to be technically correct without representing the situation in a truly truthful manner.

"Ambitious" my ass. Do your god damn jobs.

#journalism #journalisticmalpractice #uspol #ap

In Trump-land …
- Rally speaker called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”
- Elon Musk promised “tank the economy” means “hardship” for the middle class
- Mike Johnson promised to kill Obamacare if Trump wins
- Musk PAC carted door knockers around in the back of a UHaul

Yet in WaPo, NYT, political journalism-land … the focus is on a gaffe

#USPolitics #Election2024 #journalisticMalpractice

Why is Biden’s one-time GAFFE a “firestorm,” Axios, but Trump’s repeated epithets(“poisoning blood”) and flat out lies (“eating dogs and cats”) is ho-f….ing-hum?

#journalisticMalpractice #USPolitics #Election2024

Read Jeff Jarvis:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/liberals-infuriated-media-cancel-subscription-editorial-endorsement-times-washington-post-jarvis.php

This is how USA today reported on the Dear Leader's racist rally at Madison Square Garden. It speaks for itself.

#Trump #rally #NYC #USAToday #racism #fascism #JournalisticMalpractice

Washington Post joins LA Times in journalistic malpractice: neither paper will issue presidential endorsement

#USPolitics #Election2024 #washingtopost #latimes #journalisticmalpractice

https://themoderatevoice.com/washington-post-joins-la-times-in-journalistic-malpractice-neither-paper-will-issue-presidential-endorsement/

Eugene Robinson details “The double standard for Harris and Trump” in this column. He laments vapid news coverage.

“Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way.”

https://wapo.st/4dZaokD
#GiftLink #Election2024 #journalisticMalpractice #trump #harris #USPolitics

Vulgar, profane, disjointed: Trump's PA speech may mark media turning point

https://themoderatevoice.com/vulgar-profane-disjointed-trumps-pa-speech-may-mark-media-turning-point/

#USPolitics #Election2024 #Trump #JournalisticMalpractice #mediaCriticism

News is exercising #journalisticMalpractice buy not pairing their quotes with votes.

#USpolitics #Helene https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/113244908037689930

This piece in Wapo about Trump's insane speech does a good job of portraying how confused and nonsensical and deranged it was.
https://archive.is/20241002153832/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/trump-wisconsin-swerves-subjects/

Then you read the Times article on the same speech, and sure, they describe it as disjointed, but they very determinedly try to make sense of it and turn it into actual coherent points, because they just refuse to say "Trump made no sense for over an hour." #JournalisticMalpractice
https://archive.is/remgp

Dear @AP (and every other news organization)

VOTING. BEGAN. IN. ALL. STATES. THIS. PAST. WEEKEND.
https://themoderatevoice.com/voting-has-begun-in-every-state-news-orgs-should-call-out-frivolous-gop-lawsuits/

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#JournalisticMalpractice
#votingHasBegun
#voting
#overseasVoters
#MilitaryVoters

AP Link https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voting-ballots-certification-state-laws-c6d5a339503771596758a733851bfeae

Dear @cnn, stop using non-scientific framing.

There IS NO HEART at “six weeks” (four weeks after conception). There are NO developed organs..

So there CANNOT BE a heartbeat.

The embryo is less than 1/4” in length

Dammit.

https://kegill.medium.com/dear-news-media-its-not-a-heartbeat-when-there-is-no-heart-5e6c5c27084f

#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#abortion
#heartbeatBills
#society
#WomensHealth
#MarkRobinson

"Delusional and unsettling": #Trump forgets there was no #debate audience, claims crowd "went crazy"

Appearing on Fox News, the 78-year-old Republican claimed that he won over an audience that did not exist

~

Where is @nytimes @washingtonpost @cnn? AWOL #JournalisticMalpractice

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#TrumpIsUnfit

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/19/delusional-and-unsettling-forgets-there-was-no-debate-audience-claims-crowd-went-crazy/

HOW DID I MISS THIS???

Could it be because the follow up was non-existent? Google isn’t giving anything about the guy and very little on his indictment two weeks ago.

“Frank Carillo, 66, is accused of posting more than 4,000 comments …threaten[ing] several public officials, including Harris…”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/virginia-man-charged-threatening-kill-kamala-harris-rcna165280

#election2024
#uspolitics
#VanceLies
#violence
#society
#JournalisticMalpractice

Because news organizations rarely report good news and somehow manage to slant it when they do.

Also, grocery store price gouging is real.

#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#economics https://scholar.social/@natebowling/113142772324404852

Trump's calls for blood: when fact checkers confuse substance and precision

Yes, Harris combined two speeches. Had she said “there will be blood” instead of the shorthand, bloodbath, the fact checkers would have been silent.

But the substance – that Trump is calling for ‘bloody’ mass deportation with no apparent thought about consequences – is true.

#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#Election2024
#HarrisWalz
#immigration
#society

Reminder from @TheGuardian that the mess that is today’s news coverage of Trump started in 2016:

“in a scathing analysis of 2016 election coverage, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that ‘in just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election’.”

#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#sanewashing
#Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/trump-clinton-harris-election

Trump pivots from lies to threats; most news organizations ignore the shift

If you go to the home page of the New York Times, the Washington Post or CNN looking for information about what is at stake in November, you’ll be greeted by stories about polls: educated guesses about what voters might do in less than 60 days. What you won’t see are headlines like these:

#USPolitics
#Trump
#violence
#society
#JournalisticMalpractice

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-pivots-from-lies-to-threats-most-news-organizations-ignore-the-shift/

The political pundit class seems blind to a purple tsunami, whether through myopia or malpractice. Hundreds of GOP leaders support Harris. Including #DickCheney. (It’s your turn, Shrub.)

https://themoderatevoice.com/dick-cheney-joins-hundreds-of-republicans-national-security-and-business-leaders-in-endorsing-kamala-harris/

#USPolitics
#JournalisticMalpractice
#Harris
#Community
#Society
#GOP

attn: @jeffjarvis

Seeking headlines, #Trump announces “plan” to sue the federal government.

Reporters bite. As they always do.

IF he files, THEN report it. 🤦🏼‍♀️
Until then, It Is Rumor. FFS.

#journalisticMalpractice
#USPolitics
#MediaCriticism

The only people saying what Tom Nichols writes here are independent journalists, a few traditional opinion/columnists, and magazine journalists.

It’s criminal malpractice.

How many dissertations will come out of media failures from 2015-2025 (anticipating because you know he’ll contest the results).

#USPolitics
#journalisticMalpractice

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/truth-about-trumps-press-conference/679425/

#GiftLink
https://archive.ph/VjMuW

Mifepristone is a drug used in about 2/3 of abortions. When a reporter asked Donald #Trump Thursday if he would ban mifepristone, a “yes/no” question, nonsense followed.

Where are the editorials lambasting this man’s cognitive state?

In an extraordinarily pointed commentary, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell took the political reporters in that room to the woodshed, characterizing the press corps as “tame and reserved and polite.”

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-refuses-to-answer-when-asked-if-he-would-revoke-access-to-mifepristone-in-unhinged-press-conference-odonnell-criticizes-tame-press-corps/

#USPolitics #journalisticMalpractice

The #DCpressCorp—the #reporters who attend #pressConferences, and ask questions—are a complete and utter #disgrace, and have so thoroughly failed the #AmericanPeople that I don't understand how they can look at themselves in the mirror and do their job with anything approaching pride.

Please take 15min to watch #LawrenceODonnell explain exactly why I say this. Afterwards, I promise you'll feel the same way.

#DCpressFailure #journalisticMalpractice

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAmEw5IXClQ