Date: 05/18/13
Junk Journalists working for the networks and major newspapers are demonstrating ignorance or ignoring their own experiences in their coverage of the IRS scandal. Government workers don’t go rogue without direction.
Experienced reporters, who are …
Date: 02/07/13
Update: 4/24/13 City agress to pay 4.2 million to two women who survived cops uncontrollable trigger fingers. No news on discipline for officers though as Junk Journalists don’t ask the question.
Junk Journalists agree to …
Reporter:
John Dickerson
Date: 01/23/13
Today John Dickerson wrote a follow-up to his Slate piece of last week “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party” in which …
Date: 01/22/13
While the media elite in the country admire Michelle Obama’s style and the desire of President Barack Obama’s to be a tranformative figure for the left as Ronald Reagan was for the right, the treatment …
Date: 01/20/13
Junk Journalists at NBC, CBS and ABC did little last week to investigate claims by the Administration that the gun bans would help or prevent mass killings.
NBC and ABC immediately latched on to the …
Date: 01/10/13
Senator Dianne Feinstein today told a Breitbart.com reporter that she doesn’t believe more than 10 rounds are needed for self defense. Perhaps she should get in touch with these police departments.
Many of the elite …
Reporter:
Fareed Zakaria
Date: 08/10/12
Time Magazine writer and CNN contributor Fareed Zakaria caught being a junk journalist and forced to admit it.
Fareed says on the web, “Media reporters have pointed out that paragraphs in my Time column on …
Date: 07/24/12
Diane Sawyer last night on her show World News with Diane Sawyer, failed to acknowledge accusations by the family of the suspected Aurora shooter that her reporter, Matthew Mosk, took comments out of context.
In …
Date: 07/23/12
In a press conference minutes ago, a spokesperson for the mother of James Holmes stated ABC News called her at 5:45 a.m. in the morning and asked her if she was related to James Holmes. …
Date: 07/20/12
ABC News so-called investigative reporter Brian Ross early in the coverage of the James Holmes shooting in Aurora, Colorado identifies Holmes as a member of the Tea Party because he or his staff found a …
Reporter:
Christopher Rowland
Date: 07/13/12
Publication:
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe’s Christopher Rowland who outlined the Security and Exchange Commission documents that appear to show Republican Mitt Romney as owning and controlling Bain Capital after 1999 went to a law professor who donated …
Reporter:
Norah O'Donnell
Date: 07/11/12
Publication:
ABC News
Network and print Junk Journalists use Junk Journalism tactics to support the President’s tax raising plan for a small percentage of taxpayers. NBC’s Norah O’Donnell, who at press conferences flirts with President and asking him …
Date: 06/20/12
Today, President Obama announced he will shield U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from delivering any more documents to Congress related to the Fast and Furious program in which the government delivered thousands of guns to …
Date: 05/11/12
The Washington Posts story about Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s alleged bullying in high school set off a fire storm of news coverage as corporate reporters followed the claims in the story without reviewing the …
Date: 05/10/12
Reporters and editors for The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Associated Press, ABC News and Washington Post reported May 8, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice will file a civil suit against …
Date: 04/14/12
Update on Biden Beach Boardwalk Bash: A party for the Vice-president’s friends in the media.
JJChronicles.com obtained the list of journalists who attended Vice-president Joseph Biden’s summer water gun fight ”the Biden Beach Boardwalk Bash”.…
Reporter:
Tom Cohen
Date: 04/05/12
Publication:
CNN
CNN reporter Tom Cohen’s coverage of President Obama’s speech at the Associated Press Luncheon allows president to make claims that are unchallenged and misleads readers.
Lead Paragraph Not Put In Context To Debate - …
Reporter:
Matt Gutman
Date: 04/03/12
Publication:
ABC News
Matt Gutman the ABC News reporter who identified a 13-year-old eye witness to the alleged shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman also appears to have edited the original surveillance video on March 28, so …
Date: 03/29/12
ABC News reporter Matt Gutman is covering the George Zimmerman shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford Florida and found an eye witness of the fight.
Common Sense - Gutman in his story identified a 13-year-old …
Reporter:
Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell
Date: 03/21/12
Publication:
NBC Nightly News
Repeating Fabrication - Throughout the report Junk Journalist Williams and Junk Journalist Mitchell approach the story from the Administration’s Progressive point of view. The report Williams says, is aimed at looking at “A push by …
Reporter:
Norah O'Donnell, Jake Tapper
Date: 03/09/12
Tuesday’s presidential press conference was a demonstration in group junk journalism and an astounding failure by men and women charged with protecting the U.S. democracy with honest reporting.
While exit polls on Tuesday primary election …
Reporter:
Loren Nancarrow
Date: 03/06/12
Publication:
Fox 5 News San Diego
News Reader Do Your Research - Junk Journalist Loren Nancarrow reported during the 10 p.m. news that Republicans say illegal aliens are obtaining tax refunds under provisions of the Child Tax Credit. Nancarrow’s report makes …
Date: 03/05/12
$17 million Junk Journalist - Today Show’s Matt Lauer interviews Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke about being called a “slut” by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh after she claimed that Georgetown students pay $3,000 …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 03/05/12
Publication:
Meet The Press
Blames Republicans and Democrats For Gas Prices – Junk Journalist David Gregory asks Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to agree that Republicans and Democrats are at fault for high gas prices and …
Reporter:
Brian Montopoli
Date: 03/01/12
Publication:
CBS News
Kill the Messenger Journalism - Junk Journalist Brian Montopoli spends seven paragraphs on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and three paragraphs on the allegations. Montopli calls the sheriff “publicity hungry”. He wrote “Arpaio’s press conference puts him …
Date: 02/24/12
Publication:
Major Networks and Newpapers
Fox News Covers Others Ignore
Koran Burning – Junk Journalist covered the Koran burning story. They ignored the sentence of death of the Christian pastor in Iran. Based on Google searches Fox News is the …
Reporter:
Elizabeth Aguilera
Date: 02/22/12
Publication:
San Diego Union Tribune
Filtering The Facts - A government audit finds suspected illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion in federal tax credits they may not be entitled to receive, and Aguilera writes a story of Republicans versus illegal immigrants. …
Reporter:
Lissette Martinez
Date: 02/17/12
Publication:
KPNX
Escaped What? - In covering story of an Scottsdale, Arizona, police officer shooting of an unarmed man who was holding a baby, the reporter states “Officers also escaped harm”. It is unclear what threat the …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 02/12/12
Publication:
Meet The Press
Gregory Misses That There Was No Compromise Just A Different Victim
No Compromise Is Compromise For Junk Journalists - David Gregory and corporate junk journalism calls President Barack Obama’s decision to force insurance companies …
Reporter:
Jeff Rossen
Date: 02/09/12
Publication:
Today Show
Today Show’s Investigation Into Gun Sales Attempt To Save Holder?
Hiding The “Some” - The classic Junk Journalist phrase “Some say this is a major loophole in the law.” Rossen in using this phrase is …
Reporter:
Christopher Cadelago
Date: 02/05/12
Publication:
San Diego Union Tribune
Cadelago Accuses Republican House Members of Hypocrisy Related To Solyndra
Failed Equivalence - Cadelago writes 20 plus paragraphs making a case that Republican critics of President Obama’s loan to Solyndra was a political payback are …
Reporter:
Brian Ross
Date: 01/26/12
Publication:
ABC News
Junk Journalist Brian Ross Bias Reporting In ”Romney Parks Millions In Cayman” Islands Story
Democrat Foundation Builder - Junk Journalist Brian Ross spends 3.47 minutes discussing Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s wealth. He indicts Romney for …
Reporter:
Jim Rutenberg
Date: 01/18/12
Publication:
The New York Times
Buries The Facts - Buries The Facts – The New York Times often engages in conceal the facts journalism. In this case, Junk Journalist Jim Rutenberg waits to the 14th paragraph to write “Mr. Gingrich …
Reporter:
George Stephenopoulos
Date: 01/15/12
Publication:
This Week wih George Stephanopoulos
ABC News
Is Stephen Colbert Interview News? - George is a joke of a journalist interviewing a joke. Stephanopoulos looks like a man who was ordered to do this interivew. He appears to want to be …
Reporter:
Rana Foroohar
Date: 01/14/12
Publication:
Time Magazine
Buffett Uses His Billions To Bully Republicans With Help From Time Junk Journalist Rana Foroohar
Foroohar An English Major Needing Math Lessons - Junk Journalist Rana Foroohar with giddy enthusiasm delivers Buffett’s message to Republicans …
Reporter:
Diane Sawyer / George Stephanopoulos/ David Muir
Date: 01/11/12
Publication:
ABC World News Tonight
Sawyer, Stephanopoulos, Muir Miss The Wile Coyotes – These Junk Journalists, Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos and David Muir, provide their customers little in depth analysis of Mitt Romney’s statement that he liked to fire companies …
Date: 12/06/11
Junk Journalist Never Ask – President Obama said today that America is best when “everyone plays by the same rules”, but under his administration rules established by the government are not being followed in many …
Date: 11/09/11
Have You Ever, In Your Life, Filed Other Complaints? - POLITICO Junk Journalist Jonathan Martin interviewed Herman Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar and apparently forgot to ask her if she had ever filed other claims against …
Date: 11/08/11
Please Tell Us What He Did - Junk Journalist Jonathan Martin contunues to to withhold facts. In his latest story, he interviews Herman Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar, but still does not tell us what …
Date: 11/08/11
Media members are not following the guidelines for use of anonymous sources in the Herman Cain story. The media are acting less cautiously than it did with President Bill Clinton when he was accused of …
Reporter:
Jonathan Martin
Date: 11/03/11
Publication:
Politico
Unsourced Conclusions - Junk Journalist Martin continues to write stories with few facts and unsupported conclusions. He writes today “Politico has learned that one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment at …
Reporter:
Jonathan Martin, Anna Palmer, Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman
Date: 10/31/11
Publication:
Politico
Junk Jurnalism Uses Confidential Sources - Jonathan Martin and his Junk Journalism practicing colleagues, Kenneth P. Vogel, Anna Palmer and Maggie Haberman report without naming the accusers or their sources. In this poorly written sentence, …
Date: 10/16/11
Anchor Walter Makaula says in the lead to the story “Call it the Civic Center of Chaos – pepper spray and handcuffs. Occupy San Diego protestors get violent and find a new place to rally. …
Reporter:
NBC's Mark Murray
Date: 10/12/11
Publication:
NBC News / Wall Street Journal
Mark Murry Junk Journalist - Junk Journalist Mark Murry reportsthat the majority of people, 64%, say it is a “good idea” to raise taxes on the rich. Support for the poll question should be …
Reporter:
Paloma Esquivel
Date: 10/03/11
Publication:
Los Angeles Times
Activism Substituting For Journalism - Junk Journalist Paloma Esquivel in her story “Groups want ‘John and Ken Show off the air” moves from journalist to junk journalist activist. The story focuses on illegal immigrant …
Date: 09/28/11
The Daily Rundown of the Tea Party -
Chuck Todd and NBC News is in a rundown campaign aimed at the …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 09/26/11
Publication:
Meet The Press
Junk Journalism Focus On Irrelevant – David Gegory’s lack of substantive insight or investigation focuses on President Obama and whether Netanyahu believes Obama is as staunch a friend to the Jewish state as President George …
Reporter:
Bruce Smith
Date: 08/20/11
Publication:
Associated Press / Huffington Post
Gaffe Counting Classic Junk Journalism - Huffington Post reporter Bruce Smith is your classic Junk Journalist writing several inches of copy on the Gaffe of one candidate. These candidates make numerous public appearances a day, …
Date: 08/06/11
Was Victim Found To Be A Theif? - CBS news and other media report police were responding to a report of car break ins, but this reporter and others have not confirmed with police that …
Date: 07/28/11
One Of The Team - Do these two look afraid the world is going to end? That America as we know it is going to end. These two don’t look afraid the world is going …
Reporter:
Chris Wallace
Date: 07/26/11
Publication:
Fox News Sunday
70 million or 80 million - Chris Wallace appearing more and more like just another junk journalist lets Treasurey Secretary Tim Geithner claim the government writes 80 million checks a month when just last week, …
Reporter:
Scott Pelley
Date: 07/14/11
Publication:
CBS News
Tee Up Potus For The Big Threat - Junk Journalist Scott Pelley provides President Barack Obama the perfect opportunity to put the fear of losing money into the hearts of 70 million American families. “Can …
Reporter:
Brian Williams and Kelly O'Donnell
Date: 06/29/11
Publication:
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
Republican Gaffe detector – Brian Williams spends several nights discussing Sarah Palin’s Paul Revere story, never reporting that some historians agreed with Palin’s account that was more detailed than the elementary-school account Williams favored. With …
Reporter:
Anderson Cooper
Date: 06/28/11
Publication:
CNN AC360
Anderson Cooper’s Double Speak – Cooper practicing pure Junk Journalism and shilling for the administration, Anderson Cooper declares ”it turns out she has not only benefited from government money over the years, it seems she …
Date: 06/14/11
Publication:
Anchorage Journalists
Anchorage journalist covering the story of ILLEGAL (see below) immigrant Rafael Mora-Lopez, who for six years worked as an Anchorage police officer, are providing a clear example of journalism’s decline.
On June14th, Associated Press writer …
Date: 06/04/11
Palin Obsession – Brian Junk Journalist Williams as anchor of the nightly news somehow finds Palin’s version of Paul Revere’s ride news worthy. Brian has to point out that the mistake she made is the …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 05/25/11
Publication:
Meet The Press
Near Apoplectic – In true Junk Journalism form, David Gregory lectures Paul Ryan. When he did not get the answer he wanted, Gregory gives Ryan a tense high-pitched scolding lecturing him on the how to …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 05/19/11
Publication:
Meet The Press
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Racist Thinking Demonstrated By Media… – So Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama for creating an economy that creates food stamp recipients
Date: 05/11/11
Chuck Todd Blind, Biased Or Propagandist – Practicing the ultimate in Junk Journalism Chuck Todd on the Today Show runs through the candidates who appeared on the Fox News debate and doesn’t even mention the …
Reporter:
Savannah Guthrie
Date: 05/06/11
Publication:
NBC News
Dupe – Junk Journalist Savannah Guthrie takes information from “a top U.S. official” stating “As NBC first reported, the President was able to monitor the 40-minute operation as it unfolded.” That fact has now been …
Reporter:
Casey Grove
Date: 04/25/11
Publication:
Anchorage Daily News
Junk Journalist Buy’s Government Spin - Police Chief Mark Mew excuses his department’s obvious failure of security by saying the illegal alien police office was a good employee except for lying about who he was …
Reporter:
Junk Journalist Jim Rutenberg and Junk Journalist Megan Thee-Brenan
Date: 04/22/11
Publication:
The New York Times
Big Surprise – Junk Journalists JimRutenberg and Megan Thee-Brenan at the New York Times conduct a poll and ask people if the government should take more money from the so-called rich making $250,000 a year, …
Reporter:
Lisa Mascaro and Peter Nicholas
Date: 04/06/11
Publication:
The Los Angeles Times
Junk Journalists Don’t Do Math – Los Angeles Times Junk Journalist Lisa Moscaro and Junk Journalist Peter Nicholas report that the Republicans are jeopardizing a government shutdown because they are asking for $40 billion in …
Reporter:
Various
Date: 01/19/11
Publication:
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Blinding Misinformation - Reporters for The San Diego Union-Tribune in two separate stories describe Jose Pedro Lopez Jasso as a citizen of Mexico but don’t clearly state Jasso’s legal status at the time of the …
Reporter:
Andrea Mitchell; Tom Brokaw; Meredith Vieira
Date: 01/14/11
Publication:
Today Show
Brokaw – Pep Rally Not President’s Fault - Junk Journalist and Obama defender Tom Brokaw states the middle will bring back “civility” to the country. Brokaw doesn’t acknowledge much of the nastiness in the …
Reporter:
Michael Falcone and Amy Walter
Date: 01/13/11
Publication:
ABC News
Journalistic Amnesia - Falcone and Walter practice Junk Journalist using a classic Junk Journalism technique, forgetting history. Usually Junk Journalists forget the truth of history ignoring facts from one, five or ten years and beyond, …
Reporter:
Neela Banerjee
Date: 11/09/10
Publication:
The Los Angeles Times
The Language Of Faith - Banerjee and the Junk Journalism of the Los Angeles Times uses the word “skeptic” for those who question carbon dioxide, a natural element, as a pollutant. The use of …
Reporter:
Alexandra Moe
Date: 11/04/10
Publication:
First Read NBC
Worthless Analysis - Junk Journalist Alexandra Moe performs an analysis of the winning ratio for Tea Party candidates admitting it was hard to identify them accurately. There is nothing useful provided to the reader as …
Reporter:
Greta Van Susteren
Date: 10/29/10
Publication:
Fox News
Used and Abused Tell Him to Shut Up- Greta Van Susteren lets Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist repeat talking points numerous times on irrelevant statements against Republican Marco Rubio. Van Susteren let’s Crist repeat …
Reporter:
Jeff Zeleny
Date: 09/26/10
Publication:
New York Times
Junk Journalist Mud Slinging - Junk Journalist Jeff Zeleny decides to do a story about mud slinging and then proceeds to sling the mud handed to him by Democrats.
Either a Dupe or Cohort – …
Reporter:
Various
Date: 07/25/10
Publication:
The San Diego Union-Tibume and Others
Never Ask Why - The San Diego media attended a press conference in which the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department admitted its slow response might have caused the death of two-year-old Bentley Do who choked to …
Reporter:
NORAH O'DONNELL, MSNBC Chief Washington Correspondent
Date: 07/07/10
Publication:
The Chris Matthews Show
Why is Norah Nervous? - Discussing President Obama’s claim that within the next several days 90 percent of the oil flow would be stopped. Norah says, “Absolutely. And that was one promise that made …
Reporter:
Phillip Elliott
Date: 01/10/10
Publication:
AP
Going through the Motions - Associated Press reporter Phillip Elliott and others covering this story go through the motions so they can dismiss an obvious racist comment and let Senator Harry Reid move on to …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 01/10/10
Publication:
Meet the Press
Lack of Preparation - David Gregory doesn’t mention the governor’s and state legislature’s mismanagement of employee contracts, furloughs and pensions. The Governor’s failure as a CEO to control overhead has resulted in a state with …
Reporter:
Jeff Zeleny and Doug Mills
Date: 10/29/09
Publication:
The New York Times
Glorifying Propaganda – These two junk journalists cover the President’s trip to Dover Air Force Base to meet the caskets of the war dead, and these two Junk Journalists fail to ask the President a …
Reporter:
Scott Wilson, Garance Franke-Ruta, Anne E. Kornblut and Juliet Eilperin
Date: 09/06/09
Publication:
The Washington Post
Omission
A few quotes from Van Jones that should have been included in their stories now and reported at the time of his appointment:
1. “…wait a minute you are regulating but you are not …
Reporter:
Brian Kilmaede
Date: 08/26/09
Publication:
Fox and Friends
Lack of Courage or Knowledge.
Kilmeade attempts to avoid mentioning Kennedy’s accident in which a young woman was killed when he left her in submerged car. Kilmeade says Kennedy could have been president if it …
Reporter:
David Gregory
Date: 08/24/09
Publication:
Meet The Press
Bias
Gregory’s entire line of questioning is Junk Journalism. He is only interested in how a public option for health care will get approved and does not question whether it should be approved. Gregory misses …
Date: 08/13/09
Publication:
White House Press Corps
Covering Process Versus Substance
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In this press briefing, the Junk Journalists in the room appear not to have read the House bill. Questions they should have asked: 1. Can the White House direct us …
Date: 07/23/09
Horserace Reporting
Connolly and her cohorts seem incapable of actually reporting facts. Today’s so-called professional journalists just report strategy and talking points. In their second paragraph they quote the president saying “This is not about …
Reporter:
Anderson Cooper
Date: 06/28/09
Publication:
CNN
Missing Opportunity - The President says “Ultimately I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom up politics..and I don’t want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards one …
Reporter:
Charles Gibson
Date: 09/18/08
Publication:
ABC News
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In this interview, Gibson uses the junk journalism practice of omission. The edited video does not follow the transcript published by ABC News. In it, Gibson says “You said recently in your old …
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