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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Author: Dean Sterling Jones

  • The Tyranny of Values

    Downing Street used misleading data from “right-wing think tank” to “name and shame” universities that host “extremist” speakers, newly released e-mails show Late last year, Downing Street unveiled its updated Prevent strategy, requiring universities and colleges to “stop extremists radicalising students on campuses.” Citing work by Whitehall’s Extremism Analysis Unit (EAU), Downing Street claimed that…

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  • Unblurred Lines II

    The Daily Telegraph publishes Page 2 clarification based on my corrections request re: Crown Prosecution Service’s skewed statistics on rape Last month, I blogged about how the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) exaggerated the 2015-16 rape conviction rate. Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise…

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  • Shadows of Denial

    Prominent nutritionist Dr. David Katz rails against the anti-vax movement in latest Huff Post column — why then does he associate with “cult-like” anti-vaxxers? Via “Flu, Light, And Truth: FLUx et Veritas,” by Dr. David L. Katz, The Huffington Post, October 7, 2016: This is just the right time for an annual booster of light and truth…

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  • Faux News

    Fox News pundit Monica Crowley “incorrectly labeled the Bullsh**ter of the Day” – Salon publishes my corrections request re: snarky takedown column Via Salon’s “Bullsh**ter of the Day” column yesterday, staff writer Mireia Triguero Roura took aim at Fox News pundit Monica Crowley. The target of Roura’s ire was an October 5 tweet in which Crowley,…

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  • BBC News-bait

    BBC Newsbeat aimed “to provoke conversation” with tweet about Ukrainian prankster Vitalii Sediuk’s alleged sexual assault of reality TV star Kim Kardashian Last week, BBC Newsbeat – the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 – tweeted the following apparently rhetorical question regarding Ukrainian “prankster” Vitalii Sediuk’s alleged sexual assault of US television personality Kim Kardashian: Newsbeat was roundly criticized for using “clickbait rhetorical…

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  • Unfurnished

    Award-winning reporter Tristin Hopper says The National Post geo-blocked his article about UK celebrity injunction after being contacted by internationally renowned law firm Fasken Martineau Last month, I blogged about efforts by David Furnish—husband of pop singer Elton John—to censor journalists and Internet users from reporting or discussing his alleged extra-marital affair with another married couple. Furnish…

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  • A Big Fat Critique

    Author/journalist Nina Teicholz’s critique of Retraction Watch’s reporting re: failed attempt by DC special interest group to retract her BMJ article Via “BMJ won’t retract controversial dietary guidelines article, says author” by editor Alison McCook, Retraction Watch, September 23, 2016: The BMJ is not going to retract a 2015 article criticizing the expert report underlying…

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  • Where’s the Beef?

    Politico reports that the BMJ will not retract “controversial” dietary guidelines article by Nina Teicholz, author of New York Times best-seller, The Big Fat Surprise Via Politico’s Morning Agriculture (MA) blog, Teicholz said she was notified of the journal’s decision after it conducted a months-long review: A controversial article questioning the science behind the U.S. Dietary Guidelines that…

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  • Unblurred Lines

    The Independent publishes my corrections request re: Crown Prosecution Service’s skewed statistics on rape convictions Last week, I blogged about the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) having exaggerated the 2015-16 rape conviction rate. Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise in the rape conviction rate…

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  • Blurred Lines

    UK prosecution service fudges the statistics on rape Earlier this month, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released its annual Violence Against Women and Girls crime report.¹ Via a press release, the CPS claimed that it was “convicting more cases of rape…than ever before,” with “a rise in the rape conviction rate [from 56.9] to 57.9 per…

    Read more: Blurred Lines