The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Turbocharged Luxury Death

Does the NSA have technology that can make a sports car veer out of control? http://t.co/lnWzidMVlB? Asking for a friend … #NotParanoid — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 19, 2013 The conspiracy theorists have already gotten way ahead of me on this story. I’m on a self-imposed deadline today for a long article about the […]

Enemies List: Holder’s DOJ and Hillary’s State Department Targeted Fox Reporter

Case against Fox’s Rosen, in which O admin is criminalizing reporting, makes all of the other “scandals” look like giant nothing burgers. — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 20, 2013 Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism. — Eli Lake (@EliLake) May […]

Experience Matters: Old Man Schieffer Puts Young Punk Pfeiffer in His Place

“It looks like they’ve lost Bob Schieffer,” says John Hoge, which might be a slight exaggeration. Schieffer is a liberal, but he’s also a veteran Washington journalist who has seen enough scandals to know what a scandal looks like, and he was having none of the Jedi mind trick — “These are not the scandals […]

Still No Confirmation of ‘Sleeper Cell’ Connection in Boston Marathon Bombing

On April 21, Chris Bucktin and Andy Lines wrote a story at the British Mirror tabloid about the Boston bombing investigation: Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers. . […]

The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop

Here’s a quote from the New York Times, about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to Russia last year: Kevin Brock, a former senior FBI and counterterrorism official, said, “It’s a key thread for investigators and the intelligence community to pull on.” On the top of Memeorandum last night was this headline from the British tabloid, the Mirror: […]

BREAKING: Cable TV News Airheads Screwed Up a Major Story, Again

So, I was working on this story: Chinese Student Lu Lingzi, 23, Identified as Third Victim Killed by Boston Marathon Bombing When a certain blonde woman on cable TV news began informing me (and you and a lot of other people) that a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing had been identified from video. And […]

Terrorism, Journalism and Other Crimes of ‘Workplace-Related Violence’

Still scrambling today to keep up with the latest developments in the Boston Marathon bombings. Last night I got to bed about 1 a.m., woke up about 8:15 a.m. and had my first story at ViralRead online shortly after 9 a.m., updating with the FBI press conference and new leads: UPDATE: ‘We Will Go to […]

When You Report Breaking News, Be Like Joe Friday: ‘Just the Facts, Ma’am’

#BOSTON UPDATE – WITNESS: ‘SOMEBODY’S LEG FLEW BY MY HEAD’ viralread.com/2013/04/15/bre…via @viralread — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 15, 2013 People doing live breaking news on TV have to fill hours and hours of air time. We understand this. But do they understand this? Dear TV People: Do not emote. Do not tell us how to feel. […]

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