My friend Mort Mintz died this week at 103. Fittingly, the Washington Post, where we were colleagues for many years, gave him a nice obit, starting on the Metro news front and filling columns inside. It was decent enough, but incomplete. Mort broke into newspapers in St. Louis in 1946…| Eugene L. Meyer
国际调查记者同盟(ICIJ)揭露,北京当局如何滥用包括国际刑警组织与联合国在内的国际机构,打压异见人士,并将镇压手段延伸至全球。| International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Is a dental marketeer in the eastern US spamming Brits to trick them into surrendering sensitive info?| Geoff White
Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders.| International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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My second post in the series was called, prosaically enough, “How the media misleads on police violence Part 2,” and it regarded how the issue of people being killed by police is much greater than the news media leads us to believe, and how the issue of police being killed by people has been inflated by its national news media coverage.| Fatal Encounters
My last post was called “How the media misleads on police violence Part 1,” and it regarded ways the media (and government) effectively prevent people of this country from having a clear idea about police violence. Its summary statement was, “the first way the mainstream news media fails to inform the public about the true scope of deadly police violence is that they underestimate deaths by 18 percent, and they fragment the data so a normal person can’t piece it together.”| Fatal Encounters
The United States government does not keep accurate records about law enforcement-related deaths.| Fatal Encounters