Prodded by last week’s balloon boy hoax, media critic Jack Shafer cautions reporters against being too quick to relay the stories of alleged victims. In his Press Box blog on Slate.com — an article titled “Snookered by Victims. Cynical reporters and…
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Media critic Jack Shafer has called out newspapers throughout the country — Bogus trend of the week: raising backyard chickens.
Shafer writes that newspapers keep reporting about an increasing number of people raising chickens in urban and suburban settings…
The press is making too much about an increase in gun sales since Barack Obama’s election victory, media critic Jack Shafer writes in his Press Box blog on Slate.com.
In an article titled “Crazy about guns: The press spooks its readers…
