Last month, acting on a tip from a loyal reader of this site, David F. Pierre, Jr. of TheMediaReport.com called into Buffalo radio station WBEN when told that Buffalo television reporter … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays: AP on Journalistic Jihad in December Doing Dumb Storyline Retreads Against Evil Catholic Church
January 2, 2020 By
In the month of December, the Associated Press published no less than five biased articles attacking the Catholic Church over abuse accusations against priests decades ago. Yet if one actually takes the time to labor through the articles, … [Read more...]
Shameful: Church Militant Continues To Falsely Defame Buffalo Priest
December 9, 2019 By
Despite overwhelming evidence that a decades-old abuse claim against Fr. Dennis Riter of the Diocese of Buffalo is an outright fraud, the right-wing Church Militant web site continues to claim that Riter is an abuser. Church Militant … [Read more...]
Bravo! Archdiocese of Cincinnati Obliterates TV Station After Bogus Reporting on Abuse Cases
December 2, 2019 By
Attention, all diocesan spokespeople! This is a model for how to deal with the media! Local television station WCPO in Cincinnati thought it could make a big splash for itself during Sweeps Week with a multi-part hit piece against the … [Read more...]
Phoning It In: Lazy AP Trio Discovers That Church Review Panels Actually Have Critics
November 25, 2019 By
Imagine a large private organization – with a membership of some 70 million people – sought to tackle the issue of sex abuse within its ranks by devoting the resources to voluntarily set up review panels throughout the country … [Read more...]
A New Low: Sleazy Buffalo Reporter Charlie Specht Secretly Records Bishop Malone Phone Call
November 18, 2019 By
In what may be a new low in the reporting by Buffalo TV reporter Charlie Specht, on Friday Specht videoed a phone call he made to Bishop Richard Malone without telling Malone at the start of the call that he would be recording him. How … [Read more...]
USA Today’s Insipid Article Claims Church Should Now Stalk Its Ex-Employees
November 16, 2019 By
Where does one even begin to criticize a meandering, 6100-word article whose entire premise is so dumb and tiresome? If one were to believe Lindsay Schnell and Sam Ruland from USA Today, they spent a mindnumbing nine months only to learn … [Read more...]
**Double Standard Alert** Southern California Schools Paid $313 Million In Abuse Settlements In Past Seven Years, National Media Mum
November 4, 2019 By
Just imagine: A pair of Catholic dioceses announce that they have paid out nearly one third of a billion – with a "b" – dollars for abuse claims not for allegations going back decades, but for incidents just in the … [Read more...]
Stunner: New Hampshire Judge Says 2003 Diocese of Manchester Grand Jury Report Never Should Have Been Released
October 9, 2019 By
For over a dozen years now, publicity-seeking district attorneys across the country have been bombarding the public with phony "grand jury reports" about alleged misdeeds committed by the Catholic Church many decades ago. Indeed, … [Read more...]
Stalking Ex-Employees? AP Advances Dumb Premise In Search of a Storyline
October 7, 2019 By
Imagine you work for an organization and that organization has a non-legal, ad hoc process whereby it decided whether you "could have" committed misconduct in your past. And if you were found "credibly accused" – … [Read more...]
