> none of his reporting has ever been called into question
In 2013, Ackerman was forced to take down one of his Wired stories on what he claimed was a "North Korean propaganda video", after it was revealed the film was a satire video by British travel writer Alun Hill.[16]
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas should never ever be trusted. They’ve been caught so many times now lying and spreading fake news that I have no doubt that you are intentionally spreading lies.
Good riddance! Framing the slander and the libel so that there's plausible deniability is all he's good at. One of the most caustic propagandists around right now is James O'Keefe.
Here's how that accusation starts: "But a source familiar with the situation told the Sun...". So again, no names, no factual evidence, nothing concrete. Just for the record I'm not saying that Rob Ford didn't smoke crack or that his brother wasn't some kind of drug lord... in fact it wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm just commenting on how relentlessly someone seems to be trying to ruin their political careers.
As far as the Sun being Ford's cheerleader, yes it's true they are the token "conservative" media outlet. Just as Fox News is the conservative source in the US. But here's what I believe about their role in the media landscape. As the most prominent conservative media, their job is to be so ludicrous and untrustworthy that only the most hard-core conservatives would actually listen to them. The John Stewart show is quite good at highlighting just how ridiculous Fox News is, for example. This way you are left with other more-or-less liberal mainstream media as the most accessible and most credible source of news. This way you can channel all kinds of propaganda along with the other "trustworthy" news. And that's how wars and surveillance-drones are sold to tax-payers. Sorry for the conspiracy theory rant.
Since when does no retractions mean a faultless record? That just means you stand with all of the bullshit you spew, not that you're a fully truthful source.
Like when Wikileaks was perpetuating the nonsense Seth Rich conspiracy as cover.
He wrote controversial articles around data he claimed to have gotten from another individual. This alleged source was his own fabrication. That itself is a serious violation of journalistic ethics. The fact that the data itself seems suspicious is the cherry on that stinking pie.
Please keep Veritas/O’Keefe/political BS off of here. They’re well-known to be serial fraudsters (with his latest attempt consisting of trying to plant false rape allegations during the Kavanaugh confirmation affair).
This discredits WSJ Oppinon as a valid source of information. If as a journalism agency you do not bother to ban obvious quacks, you do not deserve to be listened to.
Unfortunately, after a reading various pieces by Andrew Orlowski over the course of the past decade, my conclusion is that he has low standards for fact, and poor taste in opinions. Ergo, a hack.
His "investigative journalism" of ACORN was shown to be edited to the point of nearly complete fabrication. No retraction from Fox.
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