Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) launched a fierce attack on a St. Louis TV reporter last Friday, falsely accusing him of being fired from a previous journalism position due to unethical behavior.
Following last week's devastation across the southern U.S. by Hurricane Helene, right-wing commentators across X and Instagram have been spreading false claims that the hurricane was “modified” to intentionally inflict “mass damage” on rural counties in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Can you 'hear it now?' It’s the deafening sound of CBS News abdicating its core responsibility as a news organization."
Jennifer Schulze writes, "I expect a 'who cares about ethics' response from right-wing propaganda outlets like Breitbart. But to hear some of the same from mainstream journalists is truly shocking."
Last week, 21 former Republican members of Congress sent a letter to ABC News president Almin Karamehmedovic urging him to implement live fact-checking during the presidential debate on Tuesday.
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Political journalists seem to be working overtime to pick through Donald Trump’s word salads to find something, anything that makes him sound like a normal politician."
Jennifer Schulze writes, "The vibrant, happy convention proved yet one more blow to the credibility of some news outlets that spent months regurgitating 56-year-old videos and grainy photos of Chicago police clashing with anti-Vietnam War protestors during the 1968 convention."
Before Sen. JD Vance’s speech in Milwaukee on Friday, his staff threatened to kick out Fox6 Now reporter Jason Calvi after he took a picture of a staffer holding chilled Diet Mountain Dew.
Jennifer Schulze writes, "Much like the RNC meeting in Milwaukee and the June presidential debate before that, the news reporters covering Trump’s hastily called 'news conference' functioned more as props than as journalists."
Jennifer Schulze writes, "It sounds simple: Just keep asking questions and demand answers to those questions. If a politician won’t answer key questions, end the interview instead of moving on. Rachel Scott gets it."
