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The cartel next door: How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations

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    s4b3r6
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    Would someone from Texas be able to chime in on the... Eh... Quality of the Texas Monthly? Is it generally okay? Or is it more like the Daily Mail who've got caught distributing stories with...

    Would someone from Texas be able to chime in on the... Eh... Quality of the Texas Monthly?

    Is it generally okay? Or is it more like the Daily Mail who've got caught distributing stories with little or no actual evidence?

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        s4b3r6
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        That page has just confused me more. They're a magazine, with lots of references towards them being a tabloid-style. Tabloid journalism hasn't historically been known for accuracy... So I'm not...

        That page has just confused me more. They're a magazine, with lots of references towards them being a tabloid-style.

        TEXAS MONTHLY senior editor Pamela Colloff’s story, “Innocence Lost,” was selected as one of the most ridiculously entertaining reads of 2010 by longform.org.

        Tabloid journalism hasn't historically been known for accuracy... So I'm not sure it answers my question.

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        1. spit-evil-olive-tips
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          Ctrl-F on that page for "tabloid"...no results. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The Innocence Lost article you're referring to tells the story of a man falsely imprisoned for murder for 18...

          lots of references towards them being a tabloid-style.

          Ctrl-F on that page for "tabloid"...no results. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

          The Innocence Lost article you're referring to tells the story of a man falsely imprisoned for murder for 18 years. They followed it up with two other stories, Innocence Found and Free at Last. In part as a result of their reporting, he was freed from death row, the prosecutor in his case was disbarred and he now runs a foundation dedicated to criminal justice reform. That's about as far from Daily Mail / NY Post tabloid journalism as I can think of.

          I think we're getting off the topic of the original article I posted, though. Maybe you should start a separate thread if you want to discuss media literacy as it relates to determining the credibility of online & offline news sources.

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        2. Algernon_Asimov
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          "Ridiculously entertaining" doesn't mean ridiculous. That same article "received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, an award given monthly for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious...

          "Ridiculously entertaining" doesn't mean ridiculous. That same article "received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, an award given monthly for an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism". I'm guessing that the recognition as "ridiculously entertaining" is supposed to be a little bit tongue-in-cheek, because "an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism" is not supposed to be entertaining, so the fact that this was outstanding and entertaining was a bit unexpected - "ridiculously entertaining", if you will.

          It is possible for a magazine with an entertaining style to also do good journalism.

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