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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Category: Media and Advertising

  • Gay Panic, Poe’s Law, and the Strange Cult of Julian Assange

    How my corrections story about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ended up on a bunch of fringe conspiracy websites I recently blogged about The Sun, a popular British tabloid newspaper owned by Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In March, the paper falsely reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused of raping two men during a…

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  • When Authors Attack (Redux)

    Guardian deletes article about “batty” romance/sci-fi author Candace Sams after claims someone hacked her e-mails According to Google’s Transparency Report, the Texan author recently filed a copyright complaint for the search engine to delist a critical 2009 article published in the Guardian newspaper, “When Authors Attack” by multimedia books journalist Alison Flood. source Flood’s article said that the “wonderfully batty” Sams, using the pseudonym…

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  • PR Battle of Brittain

    PR rep for Arizona ridesharing company Dryvyng flips out when asked if revenge pornster CEO Craig R. Brittain sent “profanity-laced” messages to Facebook users I recently blogged about Craig R. Brittain, founder and CEO of Scottsdale, AZ ridesharing company Dryvyng. Craig R. Brittain (source) Brittain previously ran the revenge porn site, IsAnybodyDown.com. The controversial site encouraged…

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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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  • 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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  • The Art of the Steal

    Did Trump plagiarise from “fake news” network CNN and other media networks on defunct Trump University blog? Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly accused US cable network CNN of reporting “fake news.” However, it appears that in 2008 Trump plagiarised articles originally published to the CNN website on his now-defunct Trump University blog, a weekly column in which Trump gave…

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  • The Sun Corrects False Assange Claim, Inflames WikiLeaks

    WikiLeaks Task Force cries “fake news” after The Sun falsely claims that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange allegedly sexually assaulted two men Earlier this month, The Sun newspaper published “Who is Julian Assange, why does Pamela Anderson visit him in the Ecuadorian embassy and what is Wikileaks?” about exiled Aussie journalist and founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange,…

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  • Blasphemy @ the BBC

    The BBC issues lengthy apology for “disgraceful” tweet which asked what the “right punishment for blasphemy” should be Last week, the BBC Asian Network – which hosts the lively Big Debate radio programme – asked Twitter users to say what they thought was the “right punishment for blasphemy.” source Maryam Namazie, a prominent ex-Muslim and civil rights campaigner, called the question “disgraceful,” and…

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