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 Tabloid Hack Tony Ortega gets called a lot of names by people in the news business. Most of them, as you can well imagine, are none too flattering. If you ask us, however, the most damning name applied to Tony Ortega’s “profession” style, also turns out to be the most objectively accurate – Continue reading Tony Ortega: The Face Of Our National Tabloid Epidemic  The role Tony Ortega played (and continues to play by remaining silent) supporting the notorious Backpage website is no secret to frequent readers of this blog, but the seismic ripple effect in the wake of the Federal raid which seized more than 12 million dollars from those associated with the underage sex-for-hire platform is Continue reading The Rising Tide of the Backpage Backlash  From time to time we here like to drop in on Tony Ortega’s blog to see what dire, hysterical story he’s breathlessly hawking these days. Someone has to do it. In this spirit of ‘taking one for the team’ we logged on to Ortega’s blog to see what had him ranting. What we Continue reading Ortega’s Petty Pursuit  As we’ve discussed often on this blog Tony Ortega has a truth-telling problem. Couple that with his wildly inaccurate portrayal of anything remotely related to Scientology and you have a ‘perfect storm’ of bad journalistic practice. Tony Ortega’s firm belief in his own unerring understanding may be the cause for this wrongheadedness in Continue reading Par for the Coarse  There’s an old adage in the journalism business, “tell the truth, even when the facts are inconvenient to the narrative”. That’s a bit of professional wisdom lost on the likes of Tony Ortega, if you want to consider for a moment that he is a real journalist. For him it would seem facts are Continue reading Journalism v. Propaganda: The Case Against Tony Ortega | You can’t make donations to this site…
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