In the Honduran news fable, one of the central images on the mainstream media storyboard has been the press conference Mel Zelaya conducted in his pajamas in Costa Rica. Yet the Honduran military has now declared on the record for
The flashy British tabloid the Daily Mirror and America’s so-called newspaper of record, the New York Times, would seem to represent opposite ends of the MSM. Yet in the third week of January 2009, as two of their respective columnists
To “storyboard the news” is to replace straight news reporting with a pre-shaped comic-book narrative, an edited fable sustained by selective reporting. Victims of media fraud suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will be excused for hearing the phrase as a