It turns out the news media can’t even report bad news without making it worse. Multiple outlets pushed a false statistic that U.S. GDP fell 32.9 percent in the second quarter. Fact: It fell 9.5 percent. Not 32.9 percent. The 32.9 percent figure is more than three times higher than what actually happened.
BREAKING: NBC Editor Accused of Bullying Reporter on DNC's Behalf
Yashar Ali of HuffPost published an eye-opening thread on Twitter Friday accusing NBC/MSNBC political editor Dafna Linzer of "bullying him" on behalf of the Democratic National Committee to delay an "innocuous" debate-schedule scoop he'd been given.
WaPo Paints Boy Scouts Anti-Gay, But Not Philadelphia as Anti-Scout
Updated below.It would be logical to most Americans that having openly gay adults supervising impressionable young boys under the age of consent might be a bad idea, setting aside moral or religious considerations. It would also be logical to most Americans that private organizations reserve every right to set membership standards on moral and/or religious considerations. And to most lay persons…