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online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Month: May 2017

  • Techdirt Skewers Turkey

    Techdirt publishes article based on my blog post re: Erdoğan’s takedown demand of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler source Via “Turkish President Demands Google Delist a Bunch of Websites Comparing Him to Hitler” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, May 24, 2017: from the ‘Hitler-was-an-amateur-authoritarian,’-the-president-complained dept The world’s most thin-skinned “leader” is at it again. Perpetually-insulted…

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  • Adolf Erdoğan

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan orders takedown of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler The Turkish tyrant has ordered Google and other search companies to delist over 40 URLs, including a critical report by The Washington Times, plus an AOL image search for “Adolf Erdoğan,” because they allegedly link to “hurtful, humiliating” images and…

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  • Hamer’s House of Horror

    Celebrity doctors Dean Ornish, David Katz, and Caldwell Esselstyn to headline “cult-like” pseudoscience event next month They are set to speak at the upcoming Lifestyle Medicine Summit alongside prominent anti-vaxxers and other proponents of “natural medicine.” source The event is organised by the Lifestyle Prescriptions Foundation, whose website promotes anti-vax conspiracies, and states that cancer sufferers “are solely…

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  • Unpresentable

    The BBC says “no further action will be taken” after news presenter Ben Brown physically pushed a woman during a live television broadcast BBC News presenter Ben Brown physically pushed the female passer-by during a live television broadcast Tuesday. Brown was in Bradford speaking about the new Labour Party manifesto with his colleague, assistant political editor Norman…

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  • Hewers CEO Loses It

    Hewers crisis manager accuses me of “cyber bullying bordering on defamation” for accurately reporting what it says on his website Yesterday I blogged about Hewers, a self-proclaimed “niche market crisis communication and issues management advisors protecting personal and brand reputation.” Hewers CEO Neeran Naidoo (source) Hewers states on the front page of its website that it “was…

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  • Unappealing

    Crisis management reps for complainant in “Banting for Babies trial” say they were inspired by controversial “apartheid architect” Hendrik Verwoerd I recently blogged about the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA), whose former president reported University of Capetown professor Tim Noakes to medical authorities for a single tweet in February 2014 (click here to read more). ADSA…

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  • ADSA Doubles Down

    “Highly unprofessional” – Attempts by South African dietetics organisation to manage PR “crisis” backfire, but spin doctor Neeran Naidoo still won’t answer uncomfortable questions about “Kafka-esque” Tim Noakes inquiry Last month, I blogged about the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA), who recently hired a PR “crisis manager” to answer uncomfortable questions about the “Kafka-esque trial” of University of…

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  • Cod Fishing Part II

    “I love journalism” – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange responds to botched Sun newspaper profile On Wednesday, I asked if The Sun created a fake reporter to byline a story which falsely claimed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had sexually assaulted two men. Yesterday, Assange tweeted my blog post about the story: source He immediately followed-up with this…

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  • Cod Fishing

    Did The Sun newspaper create a fake reporter? [UPDATED: Click here for Julian Assange’s response] This item was edited by Atlanta, GA independent reporter Peter M. Heimlich, who’s cross-posting at his website for original investigative reporting, The Sidebar I recently blogged about a March 8, 2017 article published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid newspaper The Sun, “Who…

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