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Monthly Archives: April 2017
More Pom Poms From News Media Pep Squad for Truth
As the hardworking staff has diligently noted, all kinds of news organizations are busily marketing their truthfulness and reliability to a skeptical public. Call the roll: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and some outfit called … Continue reading
NYT Photog Sergey Ponomarev’s Page One Pic Is . . . Art
The hardlooking staff has long admired the photographic skill of New York Times shutterbug Sergey Ponomarev, who dominated the paper’s 2013 Year in Pictures review. Yesterday, though, Ponomarev outdid himself with this front-page photo. Close up: Man, that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, London, New York Times, Sarah Lyall, Sergey Ponomarev, The Gherkin, Year in Pictures
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New York Times Publishes Chinese Government Propaganda
In the run-up to yesterday’s Donald Trump-Xi Jinping hoedown at Mar-a-Lago, the New York Times ran this full-page piece of aditprop from Chinese government mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency. (To be fair graf goes here) To be fair, just … Continue reading
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Tagged aditprop, Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, New York Times, Xi Jinpng, Xinhua News Agency
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MFA’s ‘Matisse in the Studio’ Gets Two WSJ Rave Reviews – And It Hasn’t Even Opened Yet
Get ready for the next Boston Museum of Fine Arts blockbuster. Matisse in the Studio opens this Sunday, but already it’s gotten two – count ’em, two – boffo reviews in the Wall Street Journal. Start with this swoon from … Continue reading
Newspapers Fight Fake News Rap with Pep Squad for Truth
As our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town noted the other day, newspapers are falling all over themselves trying to convince the American public that the press actually matters in a very real way. It started with the Washington Post pasting … Continue reading
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