In their bid to support the Syrian rebels' cause, these media giants have lowered their journalistic standards, abandoned rudimentary fact-checks, and relied on anonymous callers and unverified videos in place of solid reporting….
Among its findings was that the news report was approved by inattentive executives; was delivered by an overworked anchor, Dan Rather; and did not undergo even the most rudimentary fact-checking.
Every President is surprised, at the beginning of his term, at how difficult it is to move legislation through Congress, but Donald Trump seems not to have known even the most rudimentary facts about the legislative system before assuming office.
On 10 September – less than two weeks after being named the vice presidential candidate and during preparation for an interview with Charlie Gibson McCainin's staff realized that "her grasp of rudimentary facts and concepts was minimal".
And in a desperate attempt to serve boob bait to Bubba, he appointed Sarah Palin to his ticket, a woman who took five years to get a degree in journalism, and who was apparently unaware of some of the most rudimentary facts about international politics.Republicanism's anti-intellectual turn is devastating for its future.
The explosion of traffic on the internet has also contributed to our growing inability to conduct civil discourse on difficult issues, because anyone anywhere can post opinions sans any kind of editorial filtering or even the most rudimentary fact-checking.
News sources the world over, according to Forbes, anointed the Seattle CEO (either positively or pejoratively) as this celebrity corporate Jesus figure without ever executing the most rudimentary of fact checks.
In the body of the Autobiography, Wideman writes, Haley's authorial agency is seemingly absent: "Haley does so much with so little fuss... an approach that appears so rudimentary in fact conceals sophisticated choices, quiet mastery of a medium".
(This assertion may seem painfully rudimentary, but facts that are common knowledge to any Iranian, such as the people's abiding resentment of the 1953 CIA-backed coup that restored the Shah to power, seem frequently to have eluded our nation's policymakers).
None of the characters are well delineated; no ideas are teased out, beyond the most rudimentary and mortifying facts of life for New York City's thirty-eight thousand homeless; and the actors are as flat and arch as the play's rhythms.
Displayed in Poland's Warsaw Rising Museum, the rudimentary interface displays facts and statistics about the end of WWII, which just had it's 70th anniversary, and the Warsaw Rising Movement, which just had its 71st.
