USA Today removes 23 stories after probe finds reporter apparently ‘fabricated’ quotes ~ CNN. So, now we have CNN ratting on USA Today for publishing phony stuff. Filed under “Irony” and “You can’t make this shit up.”
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Putting the stroke in heat stroke: What was USA Today thinking when it published this graphic?
USA Today’s weather page was a little hotter than usual on Friday, July 1. Seems to us this graphic may be a little too graphic.
USA Today’s weather page was a little hotter than usual on Friday, July 1. Seems to us this graphic may be a little too graphic.
Apparently staff cutbacks at Gannett are more severe than we thought. They seem to have laid off whoever was responsible for actually looking at illustrations before they run them.
H/T: Daily Caller
All’s well that Orwells: USA Today says that banning incandescent light bulbs is freedom
George Orwell has come back from the dead to write editorials down at USA Today, where truth is fiction, black is white, and green is definitely red.
George Orwell has come back from the dead to write editorials down at USA Today, where truth is fiction, black is white, and green is definitely red.
The Detroit News explains:
In a leap of Orwellian logic, USA Today — America’s second-largest newspaper — argues in its lead editorial Tuesday that banning the incandescent light bulb is a victory for free markets.
“The best way for government to boost energy efficiency isn’t to micromanage by picking winners and losers, a job better suited to free-market innovation. It is to set a reasonable standard — miles per gallon or light per watt, for example — and let the market sort it out,” spins the editorial in support of picking winners and losers. “That’s what Congress did in 2007” in banning the bulb.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Banning is choice. Regulation is freedom.
One wonders if USA Today’s editors would tolerate this doublethink if applied to their own industry. Were Congress to ban newspapers in order to force them onto the more “planet-friendly” Internet, would USA Today swallow this as free market economics?
Doublethink. Doublespeak. Doubledandy.
Source: The Detroit News
