Although this story is factually accurate, it is fatally unclear regarding the most important point to the story, leading to misunderstandings that have been repeated on NewsTrust by some of the other people who have reviewed the story. Specifically, the story does NOT state that "Martin Eisenstadt" tricked mainstream reporters into believing a fake story about Sarah Palin not knowing Africa was a continent. That story was reported originally by Carl Cameron of Fox News, based on an ... More »

This story told me things about Barack Obama that I didn't already know, explaining how he got where he is today and some of the compromises he has made along the way.

This blog post is simply a clip from a 2001 documentary by British BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis titled "Century of the Self" and available online in its entirety here: http://centuryself.blogspot.com/ Curtis' original documentary was quite interesting and well done, in my opinion, although I thought some of the details of his treatment of Anna Freud were questionable. He did a later documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares" that is also interesting, although I had more problems ... More »

Kucinich's question and Justin Frank's book, "Bush on the Couch," both offer commentary that is reasonable to a degree (although both are controversial and colored by partisan political opinion), but this commentary in "The Smirking Chimp" does not add any new information or insight into either Bush's mental state or his likely future actions as president. It merely recycles a litany of Bush's wrongful actions in office and vaguely attributes them to some unspecified mental illness. ... More »

Offers a good "compare and contrast" to highlight a topic that the U.S. news media habitually ignores. Some of the footage taken from Syrian and Iranian television might carry its own bias, but the conclusions from the UN High Commission on Refugees seem unassailable.

This blog post is based entirely on a single New York Times editorial and doesn't even seem to accurately understand the thrust of the editorial. It seems to regard the fact that the New York Times endorses a piece of legislation as prima facie evidence that the legislation is bad. The editorial describe the legislation as something that "makes it a crime to knowingly tell voters the wrong day for an election," but somehow this blogger imagines that this sort of dirty trick qualifies ... More »