Fact-challenged Fails
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NYT, Fox, AP, WSJ, ABC, etc. FAIL: Still not a mosque (nytimes.com)
A community center is not a mosque. The "rec" center down the street in a mostly-Christian city isn't a cathedral. A bingo parlor isn't a synagogue. Fact: http://bit.ly/9o8fgu -
Cleveland Plain Dealer FAIL: Cleveland Plain Dealer's Politifact FAILS to Fact Check on Jobs & Stimulus (plunderbund.com)
Politifact gave Portman's claim that Ohio lost >150,000 jobs since the stimulus a "half-true" score, but Plunderbund found Ohio lost substantially less jobs, and now shows consistent growth, in the 16 months since the stimulus was enacted. -
New York Post FAIL: Suspected Killer Did NOT Receive a Liver Transplant. Sorry About That. (villagevoice.com)
The New York Post is scrambling to explain itself after erroneously reporting that a man suspected of killing his wife was given a liver transplant after trying to kill himself with rat poison. Rupert Murdoch is reportedly enraged at his staff. -
LiveScience, MSNBC FAIL: Workouts don't decrease death risk if you're a couch potato, sitting at work ok (omgwereallgonnadie.com)
Hitting the gym every day might do little to decrease your risk of death if you spend the rest of your time sitting down, a new study suggests. Somehow the time you spend sitting at work doesn't count. Never sitting means you'll live forever. -
Mainstream Media FAIL: Andrew Breitbart admits true allegiance to Al-Qaeda (moveon.org)
A satiric video from MoveOn edits an Andrew Breitbart speech to make it look like he supports Al-Qaeda. It's just as truthful as any Breitbart has ever released, and deserves equal coverage from the news media. -
Media FAIL: Mainstream 'Laps Up' Breitbart's Nonsense without Checking Facts (washingtonpost.com)
Officials are often forced to respond to stories ginned up by right-wing smear merchants like Andrew Breitbart because mainstream news orgs are far too willing to take seriously people who are known to cook the facts on a regular basis. -
US/UK/France/NATO media FAIL: US/UK/France/NATO media machine lies about Iranian nuclear program (gilad.co.uk)
Deliberate disinformation from the lips of Obama and every other NATO leader except Merkel about sequence of events and obligation of Iran vis a vis the IAEA. Doesn't look like anything is wrong here. Their obvious slip ups mean something sinister.
