Revoke the media’s License to Lie; 32 days until our real president returns to office

60 years ago, the liberal Supreme Court in 1965 gave the press a License to Lie in the NYT v. Sullivan case in which the Times ran a libelous ad by civil rights activists against police in Birmingham, Alabama. The court said, well, unless NYT meant actual malice, the libel was not a libel.

Woman Who Accused Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness

Crystal Mangum, the woman whose false allegations of rape against three Duke Lacrosse players 18 years ago sparked a nationwide media frenzy, has admitted to lying. She also requested forgiveness from the men. Mangum’s confession came during a jailhouse interview with Katerena DePasquale for her podcast “Let’s Talk with Kat” which aired on Dec. 11. …

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I’ll Bet That Will Bunch and Taylor Lorenz Are Glad Now That Joe Biden’s Attempt to Create a Ministry of Truth Failed

Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far left columnist Will Bunch skeeted an editorial by the UK’s left-wing The Guardian about protecting journolists, oops, sorry, journalists. The Guardian view on Trump’s threat to the media: time to pass the Press Act Bipartisan legislation offers historic protections for journalists, banning secret surveillance and ensuring source confidentiality Tuesday, December 10, …

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The Legacy Media Rarely Lie Outright, But Their Biases Can Be Seen in Their Editorial Choices of What to Cover, and What to Ignore

One thing I saw frequently on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — in the weeks before the election were claims, unsourced claims, that Kamala Harris Emhoff’s campaign had internal polling which was showing that she was losing to former President Donald Trump. Those were cheering, no doubt about that, but I am …

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No Matter How Much You Hate the Credentialed Media, You Do Not Hate Them Enough

Upon seeing this tweet from Eyal Yakoby, I had to check the article to see if it was as bad as I suspected. In some ways, it really wasn’t, because most of it was based on the legal problems for José Ibarra’s defense, and the decision to seek a bench trial, a trial by a …

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