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Faux News
Read more: Faux NewsFox 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
Read more: BBC News-baitBBC 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
Read more: UnfurnishedAward-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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Unblurred Lines
Read more: Unblurred LinesThe 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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The Bitch is Back
Read more: The Bitch is BackCarter-Ruck Lawyers passes the baton to Schillings partners in Elton John three-way tabloid scandal, but where does that leave Internet users threatened with legal action? The juiciest celebrity news story of 2016 went unreported in the UK thanks to strong-arm legal tactics by David Furnish, husband of pop singer Elton John. As you didn’t read in the newspapers,…
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9GAG on This
Read more: 9GAG on ThisClickbait website 9GAG lifts automated content from popular social networking website Reddit For producers of “clickbait,” Reddit – the self-titled “front page of the Internet” and 27th most popular website in the world – is a treasure trove of copy-and-paste-friendly content. Without getting swamped by copyright issues, the reason clickbait websites such as 9GAG presume to…
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Oops, He Did It Again
Read more: Oops, He Did It AgainMore sockpuppetry by prominent Yale prof/author/columnist David L. Katz MD [UPDATED: Goodreads scrubbed his self-review] I co-authored this item with U.S. (Atlanta, GA) investigative reporter Peter M. Heimlich, who’s cross-posting it at his hard-hitting blog, The Sidebar. Peter first contacted me a couple months ago after I reblogged his September 30 item about Dr. David Katz…
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12 Words/Expressions to Avoid Part II
Read more: 12 Words/Expressions to Avoid Part IITo honour the Huffington Post’s shameful realisation of Poe’s Law,* my very own listicle. 1. Fuddruckers I don’t know what this is, but it sounds dirty. 2. Sorry You’re not sorry, stop saying sorry. 3. Champagne wishes and caviar dreams Things that were popular in the eighties. 4. Cavalier Sounds like caviar, annoying by association. 5. Sign language…
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