- Tesla’s new electric car is the safest car ever tested.
- “Nowhere are ravages of changes in the climate worse than in New Mexico” reports the LA Times.
- Despite record levels of investment, North Sea oil and gas production could fall by as much as 22% this year.
- I’m not imagining it – the Daily Express really does run its front pages on a loop, as Express Bingo demonstrates very neatly.
- The Onion has a great piece on why CNN put Miley Cyrus as the number one story on their website. Like the best of the Onion, it’s not actually satire.
The Earthbound Report 
Talk about dumbing down population through lack of decent reporting and supposedly headline news.
For a dose of absolutely “unacceptable” editorial opinion (of Rupert Murdoch) passing itself off as news to the masses, you should check out the state of his Australian papers over the last month.
Murdoch has a 65% stake in media here and with an election happening this week the front page of papers like the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Brisbane Courier Mail have been blatant propaganda for his own agenda.
Regardless of my political preference, it is truly awful to see this sort of biased media.
Wealth being used to sway an election.
What can we do? Oligarchy in action!
At least you did better than The Independent that quoted the Onion piece as actual news, not satire. (note The Independent, not the Express)
That’s because the Indy was playing the same game as CNN and cobbling together a quick ‘reactions’ post as click-bait on their own site. Sloppy journalism is guaranteed if you’re just pulling together tweets and comments, and they ought to know better than play that game. That’s an unfortunate element of online reporting, where speed is of the essence. I hope it didn’t make it into the actual paper.
The Express, incidentally, would be a fine example of satire itself if it existed in a sit-com or a cartoon.