This has become over the years an all purpose media anecdote. Useful when describing any number of media sins and shortcomings. Including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media smiths . These are prompt innoceinent stt are often retold, but which under spjute acrutiny show it by exaggerated media myths. In a way theyre cousins to fake news. They are cases of fake news that ma ma disguised for many years. Theyre like the junk food of journalism. Delicious, alluring, but not wholesome or healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, short and to the point, almost always simplistic. And of course they are mediacentric. They involve around media, media actors, journalists. Theyre easily remembered, easily retold they are almost too good not to be true. These are some of the defining features. They almost always place journalists at the center of the action. At the center of important events
Life and times. This is just over an hour. Im john eleff, president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia. The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressmen from mississippi, john r. Lynch, and here is somewhere of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century this this great city organized it is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention. One of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the
This is a Campaign Promise he made, but that Campaign Promise is going to undermine american leadership, its going to undermine our National Security. The world waits for President Trumps decision on the Paris Climate Accords. Details are still being finalized, and the president has been known to change his mind last minute. You know, mustsee tv. Whats going to happen with this. Former fbi director james comey is going to be asked about his comments in meetings with President Trump. Its definitely going to be a hard hit for this community. Police have released video of tiger woods dui arrest that shows tiger woods disoriented and confused. Are you okay . What are we doing . Lebron james Southern California mansion was vandalized with a racial slur. No matter how much money you got, no matter how famous you are, being a blan man in america is very frightening. A Malaysian Airline flight landed shortly after takeoff when a man tried to get inside the cockpit. Two bounties confronted a fu
Every morning from 5 to 9am Al Jazeera America brings you more us and global news than any other American News channel. Find out what happened and what to expect. Start every morning, every day, 5am to 9 eastern with Al Jazeera America. Was not criminal at all. Now is evidence is that check check check check check because he believes that based on ice core, and several geological things that just cannot exist, but one thing we heard from bill, ken hanson, he mentioned several things, including the idea that this cant exist. There are two types of science. Take a listen. You dont see the idea. I emphasise theres a difference between historical science, and talking about the presence, observational science if we estew science and the process, and divide signs into an observational science and historical science, we will not move forward. A lot of us know that evolution is accepted in scientific, theres not much certainty. 60 of americans, according to a poll, 60 of americans believe in e
I was. Reporter why did it take so long . There is so much backlogged d. N. A. , and it just waited and waited and waited. Reporter in july of 2011, an excited detective schoneman called jeff with the results. She just says, are you sitting down . Do i need to be . And she says, i dont know. She goes, you might want to. I said, its her, jeff. We found her. Its her. It wasnt good news at all. I mean, but it was good news for me to know that we found her. We knew where she was at. And i just started shaking. Just shaking, shaking, shaking. He called me, and we cried together. You were glad to know that you had an answer, but then it was permanent, you know . It was like she just died, because you just found out. To you, she had just died. Reporter after 30 years, there was no longer any question amy hurst had been murdered. And for amys family, no question who did it. We knew absolutely it was bill. But we have no way to prove it. I thought he would get away with it. I had this chronic,