Josh Levs

1 month ago | theystandcorrected.substack.com | Josh Levs

In the wake of Trump’s lie-fest to Congress, news agencies are offering fact checks. If only these were the rule, rather than the exception. Media failures have left people with no news agency they trust to bring them the truth. That helps Trump and propagandists across the world.

1 month ago | theystandcorrected.substack.com | Josh Levs

Announcement: Former Microsoft CEO and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer created USA Facts to help people understand the country better. For a limited time, sign up for their free weekly email using this unique link: bit.ly/4kijcq5. Thanks to a paid partnership, you’ll be helping support They Stand Corrected!The Oscars, coming this weekend, reach tens of millions of people worldwide. So it matters when winners use their acceptance speeches to lie and spread hatred. That happened last year.

2 months ago | theystandcorrected.substack.com | Josh Levs

The same news organizations that decry “both-sidesism” are rushing to engage in it now. But people of good conscience are processing the horror of the Bibas children’s slaughter with moral clarity. It’s not just the Bibas family. The entire Siman Tov family was slaughtered in the October 7 massacres by Hamas in Israel. And hostages of all ages have been killed. News agencies append alleged Gaza “death tolls” to these reports without basic context. This is a journalistic fiasco.

2 months ago | theystandcorrected.substack.com | Josh Levs

By denying reality, news agencies are setting the world up for more devastating wars in the future. I explain in the latest episode of They Stand Corrected:Yet again, the media responded to a Trump shocker with misguided, context-free hot takes. They showed they’ve learned nothing — not just from covering Trump previously, but from history. American history. In this episode, why we must look at the U.S. Civil War, World War I and World War II. You’ll hear from experts.

2 months ago | theystandcorrected.substack.com | Josh Levs

Is there anyone you can think of in the media -- any prominent figure in big national media -- who calls out hatred equally, whether it's coming from the right or the left? For this episode, I went looking and did find someone, but not in America. It's someone across the pond whom you'll hear from. I've been following the media's responses to Elon Musk's gesture that might have been a Nazi salute when he was celebrating Trump's inauguration.