12/01/2020 UPDATE: ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED WIRH A SCREENSHOT OF THE TWEET AS GEORGINA SMYTH HAS LOCKED HER TWEETS TO PRIVATE Australian Journalist Georgina Smyth, reporting for CBC News Vancouver in Canada tweeted an ill-received video where she staked out churches, filming worshippers entering. After capturing people on video committing the crime of attending a…
In a recent Facebook post, musician and investigative writer Daryl Davis described how he’s been treated by others and members of his own race, from being called a “sellout” to every imaginable racial slur. Until this week…. Davis was part of a panel in Philadelphia aimed at reducing hatred and violence in the country. This…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Stat News published an article Tuesday that accuses President Donald Trump of mental decline, despite the fact that none of the experts referenced in the article agreed with the premise. Senior Science writer Sharon Begley asserted that the president currently has a different speaking style than he had during…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read A photo journalist in Iraq narrowly escaped death after an Islamic State sniper shot the GoPro camera hanging from his neck. The sniper’s bullet struck Ammar Alwaely while he was on location in Mosul, Iraq, The Sun reported Tuesday. Owen Holdaway, a journalist for The Sun, caught…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke A well-known reporter who built his career documenting the inner workings of drug cartels was killed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa Monday afternoon, the latest victim of anti-press violence in what has become one of the world’s deadliest countries for journalists. Javier Valdez, the founder of…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos A supercut of liberal journalist Fareed Zakaria’s primetime CNN special on President Obama nicely sums up two hours of fawning footage about him in just 90 seconds. “He ran an administration that was largely scandal free,” Zakaria says in the TV documentary, supercut by The Washington Free Beacon. “And he did it all…
Blake Neff MSNBC confirmed Sunday morning that it has cut ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after her very public attack on the network over having her airtime repeatedly preempted by election coverage. Rumors of Harris-Perry’s imminent departure have been flying ever since Friday’s publication of an email where Harris-Parry accused the cable network of trying…
12 criminal charges for posting hyperlink Follow TLR on Google+ DALLAS, TX – Barrett Brown, 32, did something many of us do online, but the results for him could lead to serious jail time. The activist-journalist is facing more than 100 years in prison for posting a hyperlink to hacked material in a chat room….