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Just a few days ago, I was saying the government’s request for a 33-year sentence for the head of the Proud Boys for his role in the Jan. 6 riots was “crazy vengeful.” Convicted murderers have gotten less time. Radio host Dawn Stensland (Photo: Audacity) The judge may have
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It’s been more than two months since anchor Janelle Burrell vanished from the CBS3 noon news. Yet I know she’s still at the station. Janelle Burrell (right), without wedding band, anchors with Jim Donovan Where is she?, I wondered. Since what TV calls “talent” (I call them journalists)
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I am not a supporter of Moms for Liberty. I am a supporter of unbiased reporting and the Moms have not been getting it. Nearly every news story written or broadcast makes this assertion, usually high in the story: "The group is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center
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Here’s a good example of bad journalism, breaking several rules, including guilt by association, and all but silencing an important opposing view — from an organization under attack. It concerns the convention in Philadelphia starting Thursday of the national group called Moms for Liberty. The Inquirer has carried several stories,
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They say inquiring minds want to know, and there are few minds as inquiring as Ralph Cipriano's. Ralph Cipriano is Larry Krasner’s worst nightmare (Photo: Stu Bykofsky) His long journalistic career as a muckraking reporter was capped by two things — pulling back the curtain on corruption in
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After nearly four years of psychological trauma, legal expense, aggravation, and sleepless nights, I am free of all entanglements with my former employer, the Philadelphia Inquirer. And after nearly four years, I have removed a gag order, and I’m free to speak. But first, the background: It started on
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By Ralph Cipriano In a non-confidential settlement signed Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer has decided to drop the vindictive lawsuit that it had filed against Stu Bykofsky, the newspaper’s own former columnist. In settling the case, the Inquirer agreed to forget about trying to recoup Bykofsky’s severance payment of
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The Fox News prime-time distortionist, Tucker Carlson, is at it again -- pushing the lies that U.S. forces are actively engaging Russian troops in combat in Ukraine. “Briefing slides prepared by the U.S. government,” he said, “began to show up, among other places, on Twitter. And the slides
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I’ve been a little less active on social media and on this blog for the past week because I’ve been in a City Hall courtroom. The defamation suit I filed more than three years ago against the Philadelphia Inquirer and Inga Saffron is now in the hands of
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Blindspot Report, part of Ground News.Com, provides a very valuable service, one that illustrates an idea I have been pushing for decades: If you get all your information from a single news source, there is a ton you are missing. Calling itself a detector of media bias -- although
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The Uvalde media/murder horror show presents me with the opportunity for a case study in “the media,” a primer for non journalists. First, “the media” is not a unified entity. When you say, “The media does this, or the media does that,” just what “media” do you mean? Fox
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War is bad. That thought is not original with me, of course. It is sometimes unavoidable, as is the current war being fought by Ukraine against an imperialist Russia led by a former KGB officer with fever dreams about Making Russia Great Again. By claiming Ukraine, which he believes to