Sweeney, Torrez: A tale of two Daily Star articles »
You can draw your own conclusions but the Arizona Daily Star used noticeably different adjectives in describing two fringe perennial candidates for political office upon the passing of each, as seen below. Both news articles were published in the Star’s proclaimed Era of Civility. The two fringe candidates were on opposite ends of the spectrum. [...]
Fitz: Wrong again »
Fitzsimmons over at the Daily Star today once again demonstrated his ignorance. His editors, likewise demonstrated the complete hypocrisy of their publication. Remember voters, when you walk into your voting booth in Frank’s district, your gun is loaded and it’s just a matter of … oh, yeah, civil language. We forgot. In gun-wacky Arizona we call this [...]
Provision Tucking 101 »
The Arizona legislature last year voted to rescind health benefits for same-sex domestic partners. That was met with a lawsuit. Howard Fischer wrote a misleading article about a federal judge blocking the state law. This is the opening paragraph of Fischer’s story: “Calling it illegal discrimination, a federal judge has blocked the state from cancelling insurance [...]
Updated…Elton to boycott ringleaders: [blank] you very much »
Listening to Jon Justice this morning I heard him read an email from a listener relaying a story about the Elton John concert. During the concert, Sir Elton didn’t mince words about those demanding that he boycott Arizona and cancel his concert as a protest of SB 1070. We won’t repeat his exact words but [...]
Daily Star again mischaracterizes SB 1070 »
The Arizona Daily Star today wrote an editorial against SB 1070. While that is no surprise to anyone on the planet, their arguments against SB 1070 can be examined with a critical eye. They employ another flawed strawman argument when they claim that SB 1070 won’t solve the problem of illegal immigration. I don’t think [...]
Sheriff Dever: Daily Star article “inaccurate and irresponsible” »
The Arizona Daily Star changed their story yesterday stating that rancher Rob Krentz was murdered by an American and not by someone in this country illegally. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever called the Star’s article “inaccurate and irresponsible”. In yesterday’s story, the Star even mentioned that they broke their own rule of not reporting on unnamed sources [...]
ABC News misstatement, Pinal Deputy shooting, other SB1070 thoughts »
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” — Mark Twain ABC News Saturday anchor David Muir said the following while introducing a story on yesterday’s nationwide protests of Arizona’s SB 1070: [the "angry" protests are underway] “…all because of that tough new Arizona law that allows police [...]
Arizona Daily Star: Irony Journalism »
Gila Courier and others caught the Arizona Daily Star with their truth down. The Star ran a photo online of US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords online representing it as a photo of Congresswoman Giffords taken on the border. As it turns out, it was taken in Afghanistan, or Pakistan, or somewhere not on the US–Mexico border. It was taken from [...]
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