This Week's Show

May 11, 2012

  • Reaction to Obama's Support of Gay Marriage

  • 5 Ways To Spot a B.S. Political Headline in Under 10 Seconds

  • The AP (Temporarily) Holds a Big Story

  • An Apology for Reporter Edward Kennedy

  • Why the Myth that Vaccines Cause Autism Survives

  • The Killer That Stalked New York

  • The Phony Statistic About College Graduates

  • Remembering Barney Rosset

Reaction to Obama's Support of Gay Marriage

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5 Ways To Spot a B.S. Political Headline in Under 10 Seconds

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The AP (Temporarily) Holds a Big Story

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An Apology for Reporter Edward Kennedy

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Why the Myth that Vaccines Cause Autism Survives

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The Killer That Stalked New York

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The Phony Statistic About College Graduates

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Remembering Barney Rosset

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And edited...by Brooke.

"Seriously folks, did you really expect consumers to be in transactional mindsets on Facebook?"

- A tweet from Jason Bigler, a Google executive. From a CNET post.

More Misleading Unemployment Numbers Quoted By the Media

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

In a follow up to our story last week about a fabricated statistic that wouldn't die, Guest poster NYU Political Science Professor Nathaniel Beck looks at another misleading statistic. 

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Looking Back At A Literary Hoax

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Author Of 'Naked Came The Stranger' Passes Away

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I FOIA'd Myself and All I Got Were These Lousy letters

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

OTM Producer Sarah Abdurrahman has an update on her attempts to information about herself from government agencies via Freedom of Information Act requests. 

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How ABC's Obama Same Sex Marriage Interview Got Scooped on Twitter

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Unless you were dead or in jail yesterday, it was nearly impossible to miss the interview that President Obama did with ABC News about his support of same-sex marriage. ABC aired an excerpt from the interview at 3PM yesterday afternoon, but they were scooped by almost 10 minutes by ...

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