Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.
Two young girls go missing on a Sunday evening. It's still light and warm. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are 10 years old, best friends and having a great time. It's a lovely day, there's a barbecue. They are inseparable chatting, playing at each other's homes, listening to music, eating sweets. They disappear sometime after 6pm.
The immediate response tends to be an overreaction. There are much deeper structural inequities in the Tenderloin that continue to put neighborhood residents collectively at risk. Police officers appeared to crack down on the block the day after, with three people reporting police arrived around 7 a.m. to urge people gathered there to move along.
For the first day, I was the first person on the scene, and then my phone died. So, I went home and was reporting from there as the information was coming out, and I was getting more and more media requests. I started saying yes, not because I thought I had the right to tell this story, but mostly because I knew that reporters-or let's say some reporters-have a tendency to not be sensitive in these situations.
What does that mean? Martorano said after reading from the screen. It means they don't want us to focus on this, the crew member could be heard telling him. Martorano appeared both amused and mildly irritated by the request. He raised his eyebrows, took a moment, and said, Alright, well I am.
The NBC Saturday primetime broadcast used the figure skating exhibition gala as a way to provide a curtain call for their appointed Olympic protagonists. Of the five segments they aired from the event, four of them put Americans in the spotlight. Amber Glenn gave a fierce performance that further emphasized her comeback from a disappointing short program. Alysa Liu skated a victory lap after her instantly iconic gold medal-winning free skate.
Dramatic headlines across business publications declare that there is a "civil war" within American Airlines, with union leaders expressing a lack of confidence in the CEO, Robert Isom. Pundits are piling on, with the groupthink of armchair analysts reflexively comparing American's stock chart to admittedly impressive peers such as Delta and United, without recognizing their differences as compared to American, which flies the world's largest number of passengers by far.
Screenshot via MS NOW NPR investigative reporter Tom Dreisbach broke the news this week that a January 6th rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump had been convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old. Dreisbach posted the news on social media, which sparked a bevy of replies from many of his fellow journalists and other media commentators who felt the story was not getting nearly the attention it deserved.
Recently, two unexpected examples by a wild wolf and a domesticated cow named Veronika attracted global attention and once again opened the door for experts and others to weigh in on the question, "Are these really examples of tooling?" Many people are eager to know more about the nitty-gritty details of tooling, so I am thrilled that Dr. Benjamin Beck, an expert in this area, could answer a few questions about this fascinating behavior.
Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna's "Vogue," complete with Blond Ambition-inspired costumes and voguing arms, their routine already is popular online. But the performance isn't the thing you might have missed. It was the explanation beforehand, from NBC's Terry Gannon, about the formation of the new skating partnership that was notably brief for all it conveyed.
The biochemist revealed his results on February 2 on Spain's most-watched television program, El Hormiguero. The host, Pablo Motos, proclaimed: It's a miracle. Colleagues at his own center criticize Barbacid for not better explaining his conflict of interest. He and his colleagues Carmen Guerra and Vasiliki Liaki have applied for a patent for the commercial exploitation of their experimental therapy, should it ever become a reality.
A march supporting California's billionaires didn't exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday - the San Francisco Chronicle counted around three dozen attendees, along with another dozen tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters. To be fair, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of only "a few dozen" beforehand. But the "March for Billionaires" has drawn outsized attention on social media because it's such an incongruous idea, and according to Mission Local, journalists nearly outnumbered demonstrators at the event itself, where marchers carried signs with messages like "We ❤️ You Jeffrey Bezos" and "It's very difficult to write a nuanced argument on a sign."
What should be stories about innovation, resilience, market disruption, and leadership have increasingly been flattened into a single, repetitive narrative: DEI. Not the company's business model. Not the founder's vision or entrepreneur journey. Not the problem being solved or the customers being served. Just DEI. And it's often framed through the lens of rollbacks, political backlash, or cultural controversy.
A major, unheralded source of their success is the mainstream media's virtual blackout of their critics. By 'mainstream media,' I mean venues ranging from Mother Jones to The Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR. Thanks to its reach and stature, the liberal New York Times is the most influential pro-Yimby censor. When did you last read a serious challenge to Yimby orthodoxy in the Times, other than in the readers' comments? Never.
While the majority of stories all week will be related to those two teams, reality is that this week brings with it a ton of NFL-wide stories. Players, coaches, and all sorts of league figures do tons of media appearances across Radio Row and Super Bowl coverage at large. It stands to reason that one of the more visible members of the Dallas Cowboys will say something interesting.
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After a federal immigration agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with grisly videos quickly going viral on social media, news organizations from around the state, country and world dispatched correspondents and anchors to the scene. In the days since, that media presence has ebbed and flowed though a well-resourced local news corps and many national journalists have remained, including reporters for the Guardian, covering additional clashes between police and protesters.
It should be obvious by now that the Trump administration's effort to remove large numbers of people who entered the country illegally is not only built on lies, but is doing far more harm than good. There is clear public support for Trump's effort to secure the border, but immigration reform has three parts, not one. It must include fixing the asylum system and creating more paths to legal status.
"The reality of what my comments were after Ohio State were, I have two really passionate agendas in regards to this, and that is, I want to be a pioneer of growing the game, period," Close said. "I want to really be a part of the surge that's happening and and I want to be a part of telling these amazing stories that these players have, and they're incredible young women as well as amazing basketball players."
Trump touched on several topics during his 18-minute address to the nation on Wednesday night, but did focus on cost of living and the economy, blaming former President Joe Biden for inflation while touting lower prices for groceries and gas across the nation. Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire pressed Hassett on Trump's exaggerated claims Thursday, only for the advisor to claim that not only were the president's claims true, but that the facts were documented in a slide deck provided to each network.
The Reiners were, as Tolstoy might say, one of those happy families that all look alike, just one like all the others. But they carried a burden that made them unhappy in their own way. Rob and Michele's middle son, Nick, had many problems: addiction, mental health issues. At 32, he still lived with his parents. They were worried and had discussed it with their closest friends: the Obamas, the Crystals.
