On July 11th, 2025, Carlos Nogueras Ramos wrote an article about the com man David Wayne Flash’s latest performance creating trouble in Jeff Davis County. The article is riddled with false statements about what happened that day. It appears Carlos was looking to publish a story hostile to law enforcement, surely hoping to gain clicks from readers of the Texas Tribune who have been conditioned to react harshly. Classic clickbait journalism at its worst.
It also seems like that since the Texas Tribune has been receiving large donations from social media and AI companies, Carlos was hoping to gain favor with them by writing an article favorable to David Flash, who is a con artist that used AI and social media to blog on Facebook and post to a couple of strange AI generated websites. To someone who doesn’t look very deep at what he writes about, Carlos must have thought he had a real winning example of another ‘journalist’ that “As traditional newsrooms, especially in rural parts of the U.S., shrink or close, journalists and others have tried to crack the code of providing high-quality information with less overhead.” We can safely say that Carlos has certainly not cracked this code, due to the horrific nature of his reporting on this story, which even includes the misprint that Marfa is 55 miles south of Fort Davis. The number is actually 20 miles. How can Carlos get this number wrong? Surely he used AI to generate the text in the article and didn’t bother to check it before publishing. No journalist would include an incorrect number like that.
Carlos Nogueras Ramos was contacted about this horrible reporting several times and by a few different people, and has refused to respond. We contacted Darla Cameron and she claimed someone would get back to us. No one ever did.
This month The Tribune is hosting a webinar about news avoidance. They are going to talk about using short-form video and other ideas to get people looking at the news again. This reporter has advice for The Texas Tribune: do your job better and people won’t avoid your products as much. Jeff Davis County is a rural county with a small budget and someone like David Flash can do a lot of damage to our community when he gets a huge boost from your lazy reporting. Everyone in town knows how you published a hit job on us, and we don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore. Your story got picked up by numerous outlets at the time. Even if you do a correction at this point, the damage is already done.
Check out these 2 videos and see if you agree with how Carlos wrote (or generated text with AI) about this incident.
