Month: November 2013
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New at CJR: Media needs to own its mistakes
My new CJR column is on how media organizations can do a better job correcting their own mistakes. Here’s how it begins: The most controversial media error in recent months came in a 60 Minutes report by Lara Logan about the attack on the US mission in Benghazi, which ran for more than 15 minutes
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New CJR columns on media hype and fact-checking
I’ve been remiss in updating this blog – here are my three most recent CJR columns: The extrapolation fallacy (11/21) Is the sky falling for Obamacare? You might think so from reading the press these days. On Monday, National Journal published a piece by Josh Kraushaar with the headline “Why Obamacare Is On Life Support”