Note: the following expresses the opinions of Stephen Lemons and no one else. On Tuesday, Sept. 12 in Phoenix’s federal court, Carl Ferrer, the government’s lead witness in the Backpage trial, followed the prosecution’s playbook to a T, testifying that…
The news outlet Politico is reporting that Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, provincial beer heiress and widow of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, has been tapped by the Biden administration to be the next executive director of the…
How did Phoenix’s paper of record, the Arizona Republic, get so many things wrong about the Super Bowl/sex trafficking panic in its recent reporting on the topic? In the days leading up to Super Bowl LVII, the paper casually conflated…
More than three years after the arrest and imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London and the unsealing of a U.S. indictment against him, the editors and publishers of The New York Times and four European newspapers have signed…
At the request of this writer, editors at The Washington Post issued a correction to an April 8 review of former California prosecutor Maggy Krell’s self-serving memoir, Taking Down Backpage. The review by E.J. Graff, managing editor of WaPo’s “Monkey…
Granted, the Jonestown Massacre may not be the perfect metaphor for Washington Post scribe E.J. Graff’s recent review of California prosecutor Maggy Krell’s book, Taking Down Backpage. Still, the way Graff blindly glugs down Krell’s self-serving account of the latter’s…
If you want to read a frightening document — one that should scare the snot out of everyone doing journalism, from indie news sites to the big shot writers for premium pubs — check out a Nov. 10 letter/motion from…
You would think the recent, bombshell revelations by reporters at Yahoo! News that the CIA waged a private war on WikiLeaks, which included plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, would warrant howls of outrage from such pillars…
Riffing off an old chestnut, the inimitable Maggie McNeill once wrote that there are “lies, damn lies and sex trafficking statistics.” Now 60 Minutes+, a streaming version of the venerable news program, is helping to make McNeill’s point by highlighting…
