A New Low: Sleazy Buffalo Reporter Charlie Specht Secretly Records Bishop Malone Phone Call

Charlie Specht : Buffalo reporter WKBW

In what may be a new low in the reporting by Buffalo TV reporter Charlie Specht, on Friday Specht videoed a phone call he made to Bishop Richard Malone without telling Malone at the start of the call that he would be recording him. How … [Read more...]

USA Today’s Insipid Article Claims Church Should Now Stalk Its Ex-Employees

Lindsay Schnell : USA Today : Sam Ruland

Where does one even begin to criticize a meandering, 6100-word article whose entire premise is so dumb and tiresome? If one were to believe Lindsay Schnell and Sam Ruland from USA Today, they spent a mindnumbing nine months only to learn … [Read more...]

**Double Standard Alert** Southern California Schools Paid $313 Million In Abuse Settlements In Past Seven Years, National Media Mum

school sex abuse

Just imagine: A pair of Catholic dioceses announce that they have paid out nearly one third of a billion – with a "b" – dollars for abuse claims not for allegations going back decades, but for incidents just in the … [Read more...]

Stunner: New Hampshire Judge Says 2003 Diocese of Manchester Grand Jury Report Never Should Have Been Released

Judge Richard McNamara : New Hampshire

For over a dozen years now, publicity-seeking district attorneys across the country have been bombarding the public with phony "grand jury reports" about alleged misdeeds committed by the Catholic Church many decades ago. Indeed, … [Read more...]

Stalking Ex-Employees? AP Advances Dumb Premise In Search of a Storyline

Claudia Lauer : Associated Press : Meghan Hoyer

Imagine you work for an organization and that organization has a non-legal, ad hoc process whereby it decided whether you "could have" committed misconduct in your past. And if you were found "credibly accused" – … [Read more...]

*QUICK HITS* Two Falsely Accused Priests Fight Back and Win!

Rev. William Nolan : Rev. William Graham

We are happy to report two new developments in cases of falsely accused priests: 1. A jury in Wisconsin swiftly acquitted Rev. William Nolan after a 26-year-old accuser made the astonishing claim that Nolan had abused him well over a 100 … [Read more...]

**SPECIAL INVESTIGATION** Church Militant and Buffalo Reporter Charlie Specht Target an Innocent Priest to Boost Their Audience

Charlie Specht WKBW : bad reporting : Michael Voris Church Militant

We've already busted Buffalo TV reporter Charlie Specht for flat-out lying about an abuse accusation at a non-existent Walmart in the 1980s, and there is still plenty more to tell about the crooked Specht. But for now let's look at … [Read more...]

*SPECIAL REPORT* The Diocese of Buffalo ‘Crisis’ and Three Simple Facts That The Media Won’t Tell You

Siobhan O'Connor : Matthew Bojanowski : Charlie Specht

The way the media would have you believe, Buffalo-area Catholics are in a frenzy and demading the head of Bishop Richard Malone on a platter because he has grossly mishandled cases regarding abusive clergy. But is what the media telling … [Read more...]

**BUSTED** Buffalo TV Reporter Charlie Specht Airs Impossible Abuse Claim Against Priest, Then Lies About It

Charlie Specht : WKBW busted

In an October 2018 story on Buffalo station WKBW-TV, reporter Charlie Specht breathlessly broadcasted the claims from a man that Fr. Joseph Gatto of the Diocese of Buffalo sexually groped him "in the 1980s" while the two were … [Read more...]

**CON JOB** Dirty Buffalo Reporter Edits Messages to Portray Priest as a ‘Predator’

Charlie Specht : reporter WKBW

Just when we thought the media could not stoop any lower to hype up a story about the Catholic Church, along comes Charlie Specht, an "investigative reporter" at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, to set the bar even lower. In a recent report, … [Read more...]