Entries Tagged as 'iran nuclear deal'

Follow-up: New Low in Pseudo-journalism, Misreporting the Iran Nuclear Deal

September 2nd, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, journalism, war and peace

By Arthur Alpert Last week, I demonstrated how the Albuquerque Journal is misreporting, egregiously so, the Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, but warned you that “the True Believers have plumbed a new low in pseudo-journalism over the last few days.” The new low is the editors’ use of an Aug. 19 story from George Jahn […]

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The Iran Nuclear Deal: True Believers Practicing Pseudo-journalism

August 26th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Fact Check, foreign policy, journalism, Uncategorized

By Arthur Alpert Respectable newspapers build walls to ensure a separation between the owners’ political opinions and the news operation. That is why, to take a current example, nobody is much surprised when the N.Y. Times (establishment liberal) breaks the story that Hillary Clinton (establishment liberal) used a private email server. A newspaper lacking such […]

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Cognitive Dissonance

April 4th, 2015 · No Comments · journalism, war and peace

By Arthur Alpert I was listening to KUNM Radio several Friday mornings ago when Philip Connors, who wrote the highly praised “Fire Season”, recalled for interviewer Stephen Spitz his days as a Wall Street Journal reporter. When terrorists hit the World Trade Center, Connors said, he read his own newspaper and suffered “cognitive dissonance.” What […]

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