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“The goal, really, was not to prove that Trump won, but it was to get on the news week after week and month after month…and just plant those seeds of doubt.”
It’s heartening that pushback from journalists forced a reversal, but the network’s hiring decision was shameful in the first place.
“When the chips are down, the Constitution is only as good as the worst five people who sit on the Supreme Court.”
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
The fact of the matter is that investigative journalism can only happen because of leakers who take great risks.
The New York Times’ post–New Hampshire analysis bodes very poorly for how coverage of the 2024 election will proceed.
When a new example arose of RICO being used to punish the powerless rather than the powerful, concern was hard to find in corporate media.
David Brooks presents himself as an expert on salt-of-the-earth residents of the Heartland whom elites have ignored and wronged.
Live, single-candidate town halls with strictly friendly audiences are one of the worst ways to help the public make an informed choice.
News execs see themselves as non-ideological truth-tellers, yet bend over backwards to both-sides every issue.
States are now set to begin dropping people from Medicaid rolls–but if you were watching TV news, you might have missed it.
Astonishingly, two years into the Biden administration, a two-to-two deadlock means Trump still more or less runs the FCC.
Should we really pay attention to national primary polls 11 months ahead of the first contest?The obvious answer, of course, is no.
Many outlets focused on what each party had to say about the story—rather than what the general public ought to understand about it.
“Not going forward is a recipe for disaster for democracy…if we don’t hold the bad actors accountable.”
The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.
Shoehorning Trump into conversations that don’t involve him implies a false equivalence between the president and a political pretender.
The Florida federal judge who signed the warrant for the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s property is Jewish, and the far-right is terrorizing him and his community as a result. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (8/10/22) reported that “Bruce Reinhart…has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online,” including death threats. And […]
On Biden’s and Trump’s favorable ratings, Gen Xers find themselves mostly in the middle among generations.
The focus on Trump obscures the even more important story that Trump represents: the GOP assault on democracy.
