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Reporting On The Mirror – PROPUBLICA
We are not sure you thought this one all the way through.
There have always been some questions when it comes to unions and the publishing business, and in recent years, it has been a rather consistent issue that when the unions step up and start demanding things, it leads to job losses as much as benefits achieved.
At ProPublica, their union makes even less sense, given that this is an outlet that operates off of donations and grants, so it is not competing in the same fashion as conventional news outlets. Despite this, the union went on a one-day strike and, quixotically, demanded that its readership NOT go to the website and read its content. Journalists were encouraging people to avoid their journalism as a negotiating tool.
Oh…kay then…
As a hint, this was not a fertile gambit seen over at the Washington Post. Their staff was loudly complaining about the management around the time of the 2024 election, and that led to a wave of readers cancelling subscriptions. Not surprisingly, this was followed by one of the harshest rounds of layoffs seen in the media.
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.
— ProPublica Guild (@propublicaguild) April 8, 2026
Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: https://t.co/tN24poWh62 pic.twitter.com/l7DJoX6ceP
Body Checking The Fact Checkers – PolitiFact
The last thing they want is someone on the Right getting a positive grade!
As one prime example of the bias at the fact-check outlet displayed, here we see PolitiFact working to influence its own compiled returns. One method of measurement at the site is to search names and see the collected results of their various fact checks, and recognize how often they are deemed correct or wrong.
One of the less-than-sly tactics is when a fact-check is performed, but a truth grade is not attached. This can play out when it is an “approved” source and a FALSE rating is avoided, or if it is a “disapproved” source and a positive rating is not issued. Such is the case with Jesse Watters, of Fox News.
He recently commented on some statements made by President Trump about Iran and whether those were considered high crimes or not. Watters suggested that his threats against Iranian infrastructure were not war crimes, as past presidents had engaged in similar strikes. PolitiFact essentially agreed with Watters, but his review carried no truthful measure.
Tellingly, just days earlier, U.S. Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton (MA-6) made the claim that President Trump’s threats constituted war crimes. In its assessment, the site agreed with Moulton, and it also sports a “Mostly True” rating.
Not only is this the same site measuring the same topic in different ways and issuing differing grades, but both of these decisions were ruled upon by the same writer.
Here's a sample of how @PolitiFact games its own system.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) April 9, 2026
The site checked a Jesse Watters claim about war crimes and @LouJacobson basically concludes he was accurate.
Yet they do not rate the entry at all, so no version of their TRUE rating gets measured.https://t.co/uvyvfSm7Wh
Pre-Written Field Reports – NEW YORK TIMES
You seem upset about this progress.
At the NYTimes, a team of reporters has worked on a report showing that under President Trump’s second term, the success rate of immigration asylum requests has plummeted to the single digits. They detail how judges have been pressured to issue fewer requests and to expedite the cases, easing up the backlog that was created under Joe Biden’s open policies.
It is telling how few of these details are presented as being positive.
NEW: President Trump has turned the immigration courts into part of his vast deportation machine by pressuring judges to deny people asylum and firing those who do not comply. The asylum rate has fallen to its lowest rate in decades. pic.twitter.com/Tol3QrNZmM
— Nicholas Nehamas (@NickNehamas) April 9, 2026
Low Octane Gas Lighting – CNN
Can’t have any positive news featured on the front page, eh?
When the hostilities of Operation Epic Fury first broke out, CNN conveniently provided a national gas price tracker on its front page. It was not a previous feature, so if you thought this was done to hype the rising gas prices, you would be correct. This was confirmed when, after a couple of weeks, the price plunged, and the tracker was removed. Then, after Iran threatened to seal off the Strait of Hormuz, the tracker returned - and it was paired with the TSA wait-time tracker at the same time!
And now today, in the wake of a very tentative peace deal being announced, as oil futures have plunged, what do you know?! The tracker has once again disappeared, so readers cannot watch the falling gas prices.
JUST IN: CNN removes the gas price graphic from their home page as gas prices fall.
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) April 9, 2026
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
This seems like denying involvement when she was never asked!
In possibly the most inconsequential news item (sure to be a finalist for our Remmy Awards at the end of the year), we come to learn what the actress who played Kimmy Gibbler was up to 32 years ago when O.J. Simpson was in the middle of his slow car chase.
Now that this explosive detail has been confirmed, we can finally close this chapter on the Simpson case!
'Full House' actress Andrea Barber reveals she was under anesthesia during O.J. Simpson’s infamous Bronco chase in 1994. https://t.co/teQMEHi6gk
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) April 8, 2026
