RealClearInvestigations Newsletters: RCI Today
RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week
RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week
Feb. 26 to March 4
Featured Article:
Needed: A Deep State of Impartial Media Focus on the Deep State - RCI
“How can a reporter, editor or news organization stay neutral when the office-holder they are covering keeps accusing them of being dishonest purveyors of 'fake news' ?” That’s question the RCI’s editor, Tom Kuntz, asks in his latest column, which explores media in the age of Trump. His answer: “With great difficulty.”
He writes:
Daily coverage is hard enough. But when it comes to investigating wrongdoing or misfeasance in government—or just plain scoops uncovering what the federal government is up to—the stakes are much higher, and the cost of abandoning journalistic neutrality is much greater too. In this case it can lead journalists to take sides in government turf battles, casting those who oppose Trump as the good guys instead of interested parties whose motives should be scrutinized as intensely as the President's.
Other Noteworthy Articles or Series
Media Using Encryption Tools to Collect Anonymous Tips - NPR
A growing number of media outlets are taking their reliance on anonymous tips and leaks to the next level by launching encrypted messaging apps and secure email programs as a way of urging whistleblowers to send them stories.
Lopsided Campus Rape Tribunals Shock 2 Courts - Watchdog.org
In separate rulings, judges in Colorado and California found that campus tribunals adjudicating sexual assault claims were grossly unfair. Ordering San Diego State University to "dissolve the finding" of a campus tribunal that found a student guilty of sexual assault, a California judge wrote that the process was so “lopsided against the accused" that it shocked the court’s conscience.
Our Lust for Leather Comes at a High Price in the Developing World - Undark
Leather processing is big business in Bangladesh, India and other parts of the developing world, where regulations are lax and poisons run freely. The first in a four-part series offering a "visual tour" of textile and tannery industries across the world.
Ex-Congregants Describe How Devil Was Beaten Out of Them in N.C. - Associated Press
In a compounds in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, congregants of the Word of Faith Fellowship were regularly punched, smacked, choked, slammed to the floor or thrown through walls in a violent form of deliverance meant to “purify” sinners by beating out devils, 43 former members said in separate, exclusive interviews.
Canada: Subway's Oven-Roasted Chicken Only 50% Chicken - CBC News
It doesn't taste like chicken? If you're at a Subway shop in Canada, that could be because only half the oven-roasted patty is made with real chicken, a DNA test shows. The rest is mainly soy. But if you opt for McDonald's instead, be aware that the "kale salad" has more calories and fat than a Double Big Mac.
