Writer Michael Fumento reports on the media.

The Media and Misinformation

By Michael Fumento

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My Break with the Extreme Right (Salon, May 24, 2012)
The Casualties of War — The Lancet Study of Iraq Deaths is Further Discredited (The Weekly Standard, February 4, 2008)
CBS’ Bogus Vet-Suicide Stats (The New York Post, November 19, 2007)
Hollywood’s War on the War on Terror (New York Sun, October 25, 2007)
Stop Squawking Over Avian Flu (The American Spectator, January 3, 2007)
In Memoriam: Farewell to Maj. Megan McClung, USMC (The American Spectator, December 27, 2006)
The Chicken Littles Were Wrong: The Bird Flu Threat Flew the Coop (The Weekly Standard, December 25, 2006)
Embedded Reporter Upbeat About Iraq (Human Events Online, November 30, 2006)
Military Unfairly Blamed for Embed Problem (The American Spectator, November 13, 2006)
Covering Iraq: The Modern Way of War Correspondence (National Review, November 7, 2006)
Media Torment (New York Post, September 8, 2006)
TV and Tykes Don’t Mix (Townhall, June 1, 2006)
Here’s to Absolute Free Speech (Within Limits) (Townhall, March 2, 2006)
Science Journals Delivering "Political Science" (Townhall, February 23, 2006)
Hunting of Conservative Thinkers No "Phantom Persecution" (Townhall, February 9, 2006)
Is the Cell Phone Scare Finally Over? (Townhall, January 26, 2006)
Seipp’s Snipe (National Review Online, January 23, 2006)
How the Conservative Columnist Witch Hunt Burned Me (Townhall, January 19, 2006)
The James Wolcott Treatment (The American Spectator, January 12, 2006)
Media Break Rules for Green Groups (Scripps Howard News Service, December 1, 2005)
Katrina and the Price of Panic (Scripps Howard News Service, October 13, 2005)
Despite Media Blackout, Fallujah Rebuilds (Scripps Howard News Service, August 25, 2005)
Bochco’s Botched and Biased "Over There" (Scripps Howard News Service, August 11, 2005)
CBS Sees Fault only in Getting Caught (Scripps Howard News Service, Sept. 23, 2004)
Rather Suffers From Truth Deficit Disorder (Colorado Springs Gazette, February 26, 2002)
No Straight Shooters — The Washington Post’s Questionable Afghanistan Reporting (National Review Online, February 22, 2002)
Bumps in the Night — The Accutane Story is All Scare, and No Science (Reason Online, January 23, 2002)
Bill Moyers’s Bad Chemistry (April 13, 2001)
Biotech Beyond the Screen (The Washington Times, April 2, 2001)
Erin Go Away! The Myth Behind the Movie Lives On (The National Review, March 21, 2001)
The Hyped Genome Project: Part II (February 22, 2001)
Hysteria Strain of Ebola Fever (Washington Times, February 8, 2001)
Voodoo Investing (Forbes, October 16, 2000)
Give Him A Break: Stossel Sent To Scaffold For His Taboo Targets (Investor’s Business Daily, August 21, 2000)
The Racism-Industry Lynch Mob (National Review Online, July 21, 2000)
Curse of the Killer Crayons (June 18, 2000)
Unfair! A Response to Blather on the Ironically-named Web Site of "FAIR" - Fairness and Accuracy in the Media (February 12, 2000)
AIDS: Making the Worst Out of a Good Situation (American Outlook, Winter 2000)
If Only There Were A Vaccine for Hysteria (Wall Steet Journal, December 15, 1999)
Hormonally Challenged (The American Spectator, October 1999)
Consumer Reports Biotech Bashing Falls Flat (August 31, 1999)
Americans Giving Global Warming the Cold Shoulder (June 17, 1999)
The Times Adds to Gulf War Syndrome Hysteria (1999)
Safe Plastics, Poisonous Journalism (1999)
Soft Plastics, Softer Science (The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1999)
Science Reporting Under a Microscope (The Wall Street Journal, February 24, 1999)
How Media Made Parkinson’s A ’Man-Made’ Disease (Investor’s Business Daily, February 17, 1999)
The Zapping of Sensormatic (Forbes Magazine, January 25, 1999)
Medical Journals Give New Meaning to "Political Science" (The Wall Street Journal, January 21, 1999)
Setting Off the Toy Shop Alarm (1998)
ABC Colludes with Greenpeace to Scarify Viewers (1998)
A Newspaper Invents A Nuclear Health Scare (The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 1998)
Chicken Little Gets the Flu (The Wall Street Journal, 1998)
Gulf Lore Syndrome (Reason Magazine, March 1997)
"Killer Airbag" Hysteria is the Real Killer (1998)
Paper Scares Parents for Politics and Profit (1998)
Gulf War Syndrome and the Press (The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 1997)
False Satisfactions in the Food Lion Case (1997)
Consumer’s Reports’ False "Truth about Second-hand Smoke" (1997)
AIDS Epidemic Is the Other Bell Curve (1997)
Cancer Study Exposes the Media’s Hypocrisy (1997)
Media at Loss for Words Over AIDS Decline (1996)
USA Today’s Arson Artistry (The American Spectator, December 1996)
Iraqgate: Once Bush’s Ghost, Now the Media’s (1996)
The Media’s Militia Hate-Fest (1996)
Dunblane’s Unspeakable Evil (1996)
Nightline Shoots Fear Scud at Gulf Vets (1996)
Does Peter Jennings Have a Drug Problem (Sacramento Bee, October 10, 1996)
New York Times Blows Hot Air Over Global Warming (1996)
NutraSweet Fuss Amounts to Sweet Nothings (1996)
Abortion-Breast Cancer Study Threatens Media Sacred Cow (1996)
How the Media Reward Themselves for Dishonesty (1996)
How the Media and Lawyers Stir Up False Illness (1996)
Latest Scare is a Tempest in a Teapot (1996)
Latest Scare is a Tempest in a Teapot (1996)
Women’s Magazines Are Pink Propaganda (1996)
Shock Journalism - The Junk Reporting Behind the Power Line-Cancer Connection (Reason Magazine, January 1995)
False Alarms (Forbes Media Critic, Fall 1994)
Distorted AIDS Policy Abetting Scourge? (1994)
Why Is Talk Radio So Popular? Liberal Critics Revile It, But Millions Listen (Investors Business Daily, June 29, 1993)
Media, AIDS, and Truth: Misleading News Reporting about the AIDS Epidemic among Heterosexuals and the Abuse of Truth in Journalism (National Review, June 21, 1993)
Latest California Trend: Taxes (Investor’s Business Daily, October 3, 1991)
Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show: Rocky Flats Plutonium-Processing Plant (National Review, November 5, 1990)
Pishposh From the 1980s: Reviewing the Decade’s Big Stories (The American Spectator, March 1990)