They Stand Corrected

Submit media fails you see, and get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member! How did Canada, previously known for its politeness, become home to a widespread, violent antisemitic movement? Attacks on Jews are higher per capita in Canada than anywhere else in the West. Montreal has been called the “an...

Submit media fails you see, and get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. Get the Memorial Day discount today! Legal action can be the most powerful opportunity to uncover the corruption and lack of journalistic standards inside news agencies. A lawsuit exposed how Fox knowingly lied to its audien...

Submit media fails you see, and get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. A new bill of global importance has become a law. It could set a template for the entire country. Around the world, anti-democratic nations are watching this, because they know it’s a strike against one of their big go...

Submit media fails you see, and get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate 100+ episodes and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. A Supreme Court decision about voting rights became “stop the presses” news. But the media left out a big part of the story: the history of Black Democratic groups and white Republican groups working together t...

Submit media fails you see, and get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate 100+ episodes and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. The giant chasm between the media and reality has never been as clear as it is now, in the wake of a shooting at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. News agencies have long ignored and downplayed...

Get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate 100+ episodes and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. Trump insists it’s going “swimmingly.” Much of the media portrays it as an unmitigated disaster. But since news giants get so much wrong also, how can you know what’s true? Today, Josh welcomes back Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson...

Get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate 100+ episodes and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. The media needs to learn from its big screwups. It usually doesn’t. Today, Josh shows the latest proof. In rushing to cover Iran’s claims about a ceasefire deal, the media forgot lessons from a previous controversy involving the Mueller Repor...

Get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate 100+ episodes and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member. A New York Times headline read, “US Rejects Vote to Recognise Slavery as a Crime Against Humanity.” That’s false. Today, Josh explains what actually happened, and why it’s so significant for the time we’re living in. It involves victim...

Get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate crossing the 100-episode mark and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member! A new merger has huge implications for news at the local level — where people still trust the media. Today, Josh explains why this story is even bigger than it seems. Some are presenting the Nexstar-Tegna merger as yet a...

Get facts, links, images and more at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Celebrate crossing the 100-episode mark and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member! Today, Josh starts off with a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote about “appalling silence.” That’s because the media’s failures aren’t just about stories it gets wrong; they’re also about stories it refuses to tell. Perhaps t...

It’s the 100th episode! Join the celebration and support the fight for truth by becoming a Founding Member at TheyStandCorrected.substack.com . Today, Josh divulges a reality that Big Media doesn’t want you to know: News consumption has plummeted. More people are proudly announcing that they’re cutting back, calling it JOMO — the joy of missing out. That may be a good thing. A study finds th...

New York City nearly had an Islamist terrorist attack just days ago, but you wouldn’t know it from Big Media. Instead of getting people the truth, news giants hid basics. Today, Josh shares news disasters from The New York Times and CNN that are so ludicrous they sound like jokes. Meanwhile, the Times showed its bias in coverage of two political spouses. It ran cover for Rama Duwaji, wife of Zohra...

In the days since the United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran, the media has been misleading us. Obituaries of the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, left out basics, including his role in attacks on Americans and his regime’s horrific, systematic sexual assaults on girls and women. Big Media also showed pro-Iran bias in deciding which groups get...

As soon as the news broke that the United States and Israel launched a military attack on Iran, the media began spreading propaganda. Using a trick that the Islamic Republic employs, Big Media passed along claims directly from the government’s own approved “news” agencies. That’s just one of the big problems in the initial coverage. Today, Josh jumps in with a special mini-episode to set the...

Much of what we’ve been told about a big story in recent days has been wrong. It involves the Trump administration, a tight Senate race, Stephen Colbert, and claims of censorship. Those elements have been in the news, but the story also involves Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bernie Sanders, and a Biden official running to lead the most populous state. News giants have pretty much ignored all of tha...

The other day, a political scandal should have erupted. If the media was doing its job, it would have. Instead, news giants buried or ignored what happened because it didn’t fit their preferred narrative. Today, Josh explains how this story exemplifies a fundamental problem in the news — and a way we all get manipulated by political coverage.  The story involves pro-terror radical...

Big Media routinely tunes out information, presents a two-dimensional narrative, and insists that it’s the whole story. That’s been happening in recent days, in coverage of mass layoffs at the Washington Post.  Today, Josh explains what the media won’t admit: The Post, just like other news giants, is suffering from its own journalistic failures. He takes you through some of the pa...

It’s a major story involving the First Amendment and protecting children. The media is getting basic facts about it wrong. Even worse, it’s missing the big picture. Today, Josh explains how the media is digging a hole, and dragging America down with it. The story involves arrests of so-called independent journalists who were at a protest inside a Minneapolis-St. Paul church. To help us all see wha...

Coverage of the latest deadly shooting by federal immigration agents has left out crucial context. Today, Josh tells you what most legacy media have ignored.  He digs into the track record of the official who led Trump’s crackdown in Minneapolis. A federal judge slammed Greg Bovino for “outright lying.” Josh also explains how the media left out the dangers these agents face, which can affect...

Stories of independent, self-declared “journalists” have been all over the news lately. The Trump administration went wild over Nick Shirley, who made a video involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota, daycares, and allegations of fraud. Big Media responded with hypocritical attacks, performative stunts, and accusations of Islamophobia. Then, Don Lemon — a former mainstream media figure-turne...

To get your attention, the media likes to make you angry. So big news agencies churn out hot takes that inspire fury — facts be damned.  That’s clear in coverage of the shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. Today, Josh points out how a news network did exactly the wrong thing in the wake of the shooting. Also, how all the major media are ignoring a basic fact about g...

The U.S. military operation in Venezuela and capture of strongman Nicolas Maduro raise crucial questions about the extent of American power and what’s allowed under so-called “international law.” The media should respond by giving you the facts. What does the Constitution say? What do international treaties say? How have governments made decisions about military actions, and who gets to weigh in?&...

Welcome to the second annual Media Fail Awards! It’s your chance to vote on the biggest news blunders of the year. Hear the “nominees” for the most disastrous reporting that helped spread big lies on both ends of the political spectrum. Then, vote! Find your ballot at mediafailawards.com . Josh will inform the news agencies of their wins — er, losses. Also in this episode, a damaging Christm...

The media is complicit in the Hanukkah massacre . That’s not an accusation or opinion; it’s a demonstrable fact. Today, Josh provides proof.  In the wake of the Islamist terrorist attack in Sydney, Josh takes you inside Australia’s media landscape, which mirrors that of the United States and western Europe. You’ll hear the daughter of an elderly victim bravely call out the mainstream media in...

Recently, a planned terrorist attack against LGBTQ clubs was apparently thwarted. Authorities say young men from the Dearborn, Michigan area had practiced and stockpiled weapons for the attack, inspired by the Islamic State. The story was quickly buried, but it speaks to a strange shift in American politics and culture. In recent years, LGBTQ+ groups have become mouthpieces for lies put out by Isl...