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Investigating Media

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Investigating Media is a blog designed to take to task anyone who steps out of line, be it conservatives or liberals. Those who cast aside ethics are ruining journalism. It also occasionally gives advice about AP Style, grammar, spelling, etc.

Recent Posts

  • 'Accountability Journalism' Is Unaccountable

    Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 14:27

    Last year, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier wrote an ethically challenged memo to AP reporters.Since then, it has disconcertingly gained some headway.What follows in italics are quotes from Fournier's "The Essentials," and my res...

  • Misinformation Cannot Bring Back DDT

    Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 16:25

    I've recently heard and read that the partial global ban on DDT has led to 30 million of deaths since the United States banned it in the 1970s.The people I heard making this claim said DDT poses no danger to human health.Such DDT proponents believe a...

  • Media: Don't Be Snake-Bit By Lottery

    Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 13:47

    The Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics says journalists should "deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests."In California, most radio, TV and print media publicize for free California Lottery results.Although I lost ...

  • Fox: Fire Glenn Beck

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 11:39

    Fox should fire Glenn Beck because he has unbelievably stated that he is happy that Michael Jackson is dead.I'm not kidding. Here is what Beck said on his radio show Friday:"I'm glad he is dead because I believe he is glad he is dead.""I think he is ...

  • Fox Host Lacks 'Common Sense'

    Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 20:37

    by Glenn Franco SimmonsDo some commentators have no shame, or do they all just lack common sense at times?Although I stay away from cable news as much as I do TV, I heard a Fox commentator today unbelievably criticize Michael Jackson for having a man...

  • Chronicle Publisher Notes 'Fawning Media'

    Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 17:12

    by Glenn Franco SimmonsMedia run amok.Media ethics in ruin.Examples? ABC "News" proves mainstream media are nothing more than groveling sycophants waiting to prostitute themselves for viewers and/or readers.A major TV news anchor unbelievably bowed...

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