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Alt-Facts: Shooting Before You Aim

AltFacts, really meant as a joke about national-level distortion of information, took on a frightening new meaning locally in November, when a series of ugly police-related incidents spiraled out of control. Now, with social media, information distortion can truly explode into digital panic. On one day, two police incidents that felt related took place. In one, […]

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AltFacts: The Terror of Sinclair

Now that the media-content-franchising, frighteningly biased conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group has purchased local WJAR News Channel 10, you can expect Terrorism Watch and other trumped-up segments (like one starring Boris Epshteyn) to invade the minds of those watching local news broadcasts. Our intrepid AltFacts investigators (who don’t, technically, exist – but neither do unbiased Sinclair […]

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AltFacts: Lord of the Flies, White House Edition

If, like the AltFacts team, you’ve been thinking the current national administration resembles Lord of the Flies, nature may agree. If you missed that William Golding novel in high school, it’s about an island where pre-adolescents have been left to fend for themselves. They start out resourceful, but quickly disintegrate into pig-worship and all sorts of […]

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