It was not a good holiday for two employees in separate cases of workplace mistakes. From KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma: “Starbucks says they fired a barista who printed “PIG” on five coffee cups ordered by a police officer on Thanksgiving. The police […]
The suspect in Friday’s London terrorist stabbings was an Islamic extremist man whose family came to Great Britain from Pakistan. He had been released early from prison after a previous terrorism-related conviction. Usama Khan, 28, was shot and killed by
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The following is from a story I reported for CBS News on April 13, 2012. The Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News at the time killed the report. It was published on the web, only. The video has since
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The following is a news analysis. Note: On Sat. Nov. 30 Newsweek reported firing the reporter in question. Details here. This point isn’t to pick on someone in particular. It’s to learn what the latest media mistake in the era
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Many of us on Twitter recently began sharing old sayings and phrases. It was so much fun, I decided to compile some of them here for easy reading. I didn’t get to copy all of them, but there are quite
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It’s one of the most heart wrenching and incredible stories I’ve ever reported. I started covering it in 1988 while a local news reporter in Tampa, Florida at the then-CBS affiliate WTVT. It’s “the baby swap case.” I revisited this
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Under the category of “tangled web”: this article in The Jerusalem Post. Explosive testimony given in a Florida court naming [Rep.] Ilhan Omar [D-Minnesota] as a Qatari asset, also implicated a number of other prominent American citizens, including political activist
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The Kentucky teenager who claims he’s the victim of a false portrayal by the news gets to move ahead with his defamation lawsuit against NBC. Nicholas Sandmann was on a school trip in Washington D.C. last January when he came
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