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Claims and counterclaims of “election interference” are ubiquitous these days. What does the term actually mean?
Thrilled to be asked to ponder this question for
@NewYorker
!
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Congratulations to Roy Blunt, Pat Toomey, and Mick Mulvaney on using the Sunday shows today to minimize their responsibility for Trump and the coup and generally rewrite history, all with inadequate moderator pushback
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Margaret Brennan on CBS earlier: “both candidates have both said things that have raised concerns” about election security. Why are we still doing this?
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A piece of media news from
@CJR
:
@kenklippenstein
is joining
@theintercept
from
@thenation
. He'll focus on "Beltway reporting and analysis, law enforcement, and government agencies, as well as Freedom of Information
Act investigations." More below...
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Essential for networks to recognize going forward that the likes of Roy Blunt are the problem. Not accessories to the problem: *are* the problem. Yet despite their continued election denialism, I suspect we’ll see them invited on to merrily sow hypocritical anti-Biden attacks.
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In recent days, horrifying stories of law enforcement abusing reporters have emerged from Portland. One agent kneeled on a photojournalist's back. Another punched a reporter in the head. Another cocked a gun at a 17-year-old high-school journalist. They all were tear-gassed. /1
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Can we stop clipping moments where Fox personalities meet absolute-minimum standards of sanity and sharing them around as A Big Deal already? The Tucker clip is a good example—yes, he's skeptical of the conspiracy, but the language he uses to pad his skepticism is still WILD.
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Since Chuck Todd is in the news, I’d note that he didn’t ask Joe Manchin a single question this morning about the environmental impact of, or his financial connection to, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, only about how he won it in negotiations. I think that says a lot about his MTP
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“Chuck, there was no way of foreseeing that the oven fire in my kitchen that I refused to put out because it was just the oven being the oven would eventually burn my house down”
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The timing and details of the bill are tbd, but Lieu's office told me a new FWP could be anchored within the Labor Dept or a cultural agency, and could run as a grant program administered through existing community institutions—including newsrooms. /2
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It follows a recent push from fans of the FWP—most notably
@DavidKipen
, of UCLA—who think reviving it could serve a double benefit: putting unemployed writers to work, and helping America understand itself, which was a key goal of the original project. /3
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Why do news shows keep having Peter Navarro on? Either he spews nonsense talking points unchecked, or a host stands in his way, in which he just yells and trashes the media. No value to it.
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Very revealing moment on Meet the Press today, when Chuck Todd told Pat Toomey: “my title is moderator but I’d also like to be mediator here,” referring to what Chris Murphy had just said. This is clearly how journalists like him see their jobs: to broker bipartisan compromise.
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Calling a president’s words “racist” or “a lie” can legitimately be thorny. But we should use them when they're the truth. Go-back-where-you-came-from is textbook racism. When we contort ourselves to dance around it, the truth is injured. Me for
@CJR
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As the great Indian journalist
@RanaAyyub
—no stranger to the worst of these pressures—tweeted yesterday, she's never seen anything like the abuse on her timeline in the last few days. Even from a horrid baseline things can keep getting worse. Me for
@CJR
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Wow.
@jkbjournalist
and the
@MiamiHerald
have forced Alex Acosta from office. Another journalism-enforced cabinet departure to add to Pruitt, Price, Zinke...
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THREAD: I had a scary experience tonight. I was walking from the station to a pub in my home town in England when a man tried to talk to me on a street corner. I made to talk to him and then saw what he was holding in his hand: a bloody meat cleaver.
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@jayrosen_nyu
The other thing here is that the euphemisms—racially charged etc.—don’t mean anything different. “Racially charged” means racist. It’s just a cowardly way of expressing it designed to shield people from discomfort. That’s what a euphemism is. Right?
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Sorry, but the argument that you should necessarily get a free pass for crimes if you are/used to be the most powerful person in the world is absolutely batshit to me, and it’s very telling of the state of Beltway discourse that it gets taken seriously
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Savannah Guthrie did well last night. But I think the breathlessly-rave reviews that follow whenever an interviewer holds Trump to pretty basic standards are an indictment of much Trump coverage, and US interviewing culture more generally. /1
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For
@CJR
’s new print issue on political journalism after Trump, I profiled
@mehdirhasan
—someone whose career I’ve followed since he got his start in the U.K., and who represents, in my view, a radical departure for American TV news.
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Obviously, there's a long way to go before a new FWP can become a reality. But there are numerous other proposals already before Congress that would at least channel some of the *spirit* of the original—by offering public funding for the news business. /4
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IN MY DEFENCE it looked *extremely* real. I have, obviously, seen a Halloween costume before. This did not look like that.
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Several writeups of the DeSantis-Newsom debate described it as "unusual," "alternative reality," even "hard to explain." Not false, necessarily. But it speaks to current American media culture that the idea of two people debating absent an electoral contest is so alien.
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Disturbing news out of Delaware, where
@Doverpost
journalist Andre Lamar was tackled to the floor and detained while covering arrests at a protest yday. In this video he took, Lamar can repeatedly be heard ID'ing himself as press, and saying he can't breathe.
The following is the full, uncut, 2:19 video of USA TODAY Network journalist Andre Lamar, who filmed his own arrest on Facebook Live while he was covering a protest in Delaware Tuesday.
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For
@CJR
, I took a deep dive into the history of the FWP, what a new one could look like, and the prospects for federal media funding more generally. Journalism is in crisis. Bold ideas are needed to save it—and such boldness is not unprecedented. /5
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THREAD: The Arizona fraudit was a trap and many journalists walked right into it. Mainstream outlets mostly communicated, across the breadth of coverage, that the process was a sham. But their topline framing often implicitly legitimized it. /1
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A debate "gaffe" from Terry McAuliffe about schools has driven much national media chatter ahead of Virginia's gubernatorial election. Glenn Youngkin saying, at another candidate event, that he doesn't know if climate change is manmade got almost none. /1
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Choosing to believe that perspective doesn’t exist and that John Fetterman only eats special giant-sized food
When I became a senator I never thought I’d be sitting outside eating canned cheese.
Thank you
@PattyMurray
💙
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This is very telling imo. Trump did not make any actual “news” in the sense of saying anything new or surprising. What WAS news was the format/confrontation/backlash—which CNN contrived from whole cloth by inviting Trump in the first place. No CNN here, no news. Is that our job?
"You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them," Licht tells staffers, many of whom are angry about the town hall. "Kaitlan pressed him again and again and made news. Made a LOT of news." And "that is our job."
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As a Brit, I find it endlessly mind-boggling that so many journalists seem to believe not only a) that two parties can adequately represent such a diverse country, but b) that those parties should be forced to agree on everything.
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Featuring my scoop on
@tedlieu
, and extra thoughts and analysis from
@davidkipen
,
@jasonboog
,
@businessofnews
,
@notaaroncraig
,
@VWPickard
, and
@zawadidoll
, who has been running her own, excellent COVID Writers' Project out of Brooklyn. /END
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Yday, a federal judge banned officers from targeting journalists in Portland. That's welcome. But it’s worth remembering that reporters have the same First Amendment rights as everyone else. The state isn’t just crushing journalism in Portland. It's crushing speech writ large. /2
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So I have a huge problem with media outlets rushing to indulge Trump's nicknames. I spoke to linguistics and story-telling experts in 2017, and they told me that epithets are among the sharpest weapons in Trump's rhetorical arsenal. More, today, for
@CJR
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FOR FUCK’S SAKE CNN NO, BIDEN DOESN’T HAVE “MOMENTUM,” THESE VOTES WERE ALL CAST DAYS AGO
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I’ve seen a few stories about the Dominion-Fox case call it the biggest threat to the Murdoch empire since the phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. That was something of a formative media story for me, and the comparison made me curious. So I wrote about it:
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Appallingly bleak
Scoop: Saudi Arabia is funding a new digital U.S. news platform as their leaders seek access into Pres. Biden's admin.
- D.C. based studio has been built for the yet to be announced venture
- Millions have been spent
- American media personalities hired
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The press should avoid speculating about Trump's diagnosis, and how it might affect the election. The idea that it might awaken him to the severity of the virus, in particular, seems credulous—he may also use it to bolster his "this is fine" message, a misinfo nightmare. /1
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For
@CJR
's newsletter today, I spotlight
@edyong209
's outstanding latest on the pandemic. COVID has been described as an “x-ray” revealing systemic inequality. Both in this piece and his other recent work, Yong has proven himself a masterful radiographer.
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On the eve of a historically-important Supreme Court confirmation hearing, only one GOP Sunday show guest faced a substantive question about Amy Coney Barrett's record, and almost every Democrat faced a hypothetical "gotcha" question about court packing.
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If emails drove the election narrative in 2016, old-fashioned snail mail is poised to do so in 2020. Unlike with the emails story, however, there’s no such thing as too much coverage of Trump’s war on mail-in voting. Me for
@CJR
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BREAKING from
@Number10gov
:
@NoelEdmonds
new
#NoDealBrexit
minister, Banker to Treasury, Blobby to DexEU. Photo:
@liamjlhill
.
@SarahVStaples
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I am once again amused, as a British person, that anyone in America would take Nick Clegg seriously. I take no pressure in reporting this.
We have 1,000 PhD’s working at Facebook, Nick Clegg tells
@brianstelter
.
If you’re one of those PhD’s and have thoughts about how the company is talking about research my DM’s are open…
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If you missed yesterday's awesome/terrifying "disinformation war" conference at Columbia—featuring
@mariaressa
,
@zeynep
,
@emilybell
, and others—I rounded up some of the highlights for
@CJR
.
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Somehow, it hasn’t sunk in yet that the wink-nod blurred line between a joke and not a joke is an *essential component* of Trumpism and the information architecture supporting it.
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This was indeed Very Bad. Wrote about it this morning for
@CJR
:
Okay, this is extremely lame from
@MeetThePress
: 6 Republicans asked about impeachment. All white. Entire thing framed as a ‘game’ or process -vs- evidemce. No pushback from Dante who contributes that it’s “complicated.” A terrific example of how media is failing you.
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For
@CJR
, I wrote about how the Biden age and impeachment stories are—and, in many ways, aren't—like "Hillary's emails," and how one way out of false equivalency is to not cover the presidency like a permanent electoral campaign in the first place:
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I wrote about sections of the media falling for the Trump-tone-change gambit for the umpteenth time, and what it says about this week in media, more specifically:
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I don’t see how you can go back to normal relations with these people given how willing they’ve shown themselves to be to undermine basic democracy.
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This from
@brianstelter
’s newsletter caught my eye. It comes at the end of a discussion of Bob Woodward’s credibility. The fact we’re having to state something as obvious as ‘Bob Woodward tells the truth,’ rather than taking it as given, strikes me as a defeat in itself.
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News: Readers in the UK (myself included) noticed this morning that they were unable to read a major new New Yorker investigation into the case of Lucy Letby, a nurse convicted of murdering seven babies. Now a New Yorker spokesperson tells me that "To comply with a court order...
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American media commentators, take note! The situation in the US right now is shocking and unacceptable. But you don't have to imagine how it might get worse. Just look at what is happening in France already. Here's my latest on it, for
@CJR
: (8/8)
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Is this the part of the acquittal news cycle where we call Trump “emboldened” yet?
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However serious his condition turns out to be, we should also resist the temptation to paint Trump as a COVID everyman. Trump’s experience will be his own—and unlike most Americans, he’ll have access to the highest level of medical care. /2
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One year ago today, WaPo reported that a whistleblower complaint involved Trump and a foreign leader. It launched a months-long impeachment story. In the past week alone, we've had three shocking whistleblower stories—not to mention the claims of Amy Dorris and Olivia Troye. /1
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He looked deranged; not angry, but he had a weird glint in his eye. I had headphones in so didn’t hear what he said, but pulled away as normally as I could and walked off. It was just him and me on the street. I tried to act normal, then, when I got clear, I called the police.
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I walked into the pub, shaking and in need of a drink. I had nearly taken a different turn en route. What if this had been my sliding doors moment? How lucky had I been? What might the guy have done?
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Throughout the pandemic, dominant US media narratives have treated avoiding infection and severe illness with COVID as a matter of personal responsibility. That's been evident again in various Omicron how-to and personal essays. /1
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In 2020,
@edyong209
listed "false dichotomies" as one of the major conceptual errors plaguing the US pandemic discussion. Today, I wrote for
@CJR
about how their usage has, if anything, only become more egregious since then. /1
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Incredible media story here about the owner of a Caribbean news site who is also a lawyer in Switzerland who is also the Antiguan ambassador to Spain who is also the Antiguan ambassador to Monaco who is also the Antiguan ambassador to Liechtenstein
How did an obscure local media out "Antigua News" score a bombshell Credit Suisse scoop?
FT Alphaville found the answer: it all hinges on a diplomat, lawyer and media baron with a passion for pizza
@Louis_Ashworth
,
@cynthiao
,
@OwenWalker0
and I explain
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It’s not too late for media outlets to pay more attention to America’s left-wing wave, and to treat it with the seriousness it deserves. My latest for
@CJR
with thoughts from
@SeanMcElwee
and
@gabydvj
.
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Taken together, Warren and Klobuchar are a case study in our momentum obsession. Their respective results in Iowa and NH weren't all that different, yet dynamics have dominated coverage. And inconveniently for Warren, no syllable of her name rhymes with “the Big Mo.” /2
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Build Back Better is/was (delete as appropriate) lauded by its supporters for its sweeping scope. But the scope is also a consequence of America's dysfunctional politics—in many other democracies, transformative policies get passed one at a time. /1
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Over the weekend, a bunch of outlets called Trump's July 4 speeches "divisive." It's a weak word. 1. It has a blurring effect, both factually and morally. 2. It implies, wrongly, that Trump is an aberration from a baseline of American unity. Me for
@CJR
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NEW: For the past four years,
@byPeteVernon
and I have, between us, chronicled media coverage of Trump's whole presidency in writing
@CJR
's daily newsletter. Ahead of the election, Pete and I re-read every old newsletter we wrote. Here's what we found: /1
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The press has two jobs now vis-à-vis the police: 1. to keep a long-term spotlight on the reform push and convene a genuinely broad debate, and 2. to change our coverage of the police, in terms of language we use, and who we choose to trust. Me for
@CJR
:
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I spoke with
@sarahrlnrd
,
@gabydvj
,
@SeanMcElwee
,
@jelani9
,
@DavidKlion
,
@lehmannchris
, and others about the exclusion of far-left voices from mainstream opinion sections. Thanks to Bari Weiss for the unsolicited news peg.
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A lot has been written recently on how the press could better cover threats to American democracy. For
@CJR
, I round up some thoughts—from
@Sulliview
,
@perrybaconjr
,
@froomkin
,
@jayrosen_nyu
,
@ThePlumLineGS
,
@paulwaldman1
, and others—and add a couple. /1
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I rarely read or hear something these days that makes me see Trump or Trumpism in a totally new, interesting analytical light, but this
@Bobosphere
interview with
@JeffSharlet
—on “American Gnosticism”—did. Well worth a listen.
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Thanks to his vaccine status, the circumstances of Colin Powell’s death overshadowed the many complexities of his life in yesterday’s media coverage. Ultimately, vaccines should never have been a central part of this story—co-morbidities or no. /1
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For
@CJR
today, I wrote about the killing of Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh, the coverage thereof, Israeli forces' history of killing journalists, and Israeli police beating up mourners at her funeral today:
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The "debate" about whether to prioritize lives or the economy is "real," in the same way that debates about the existence of climate change are "real." But it's monstrous—and also, a completely false choice. You can't have a healthy economy without healthy people. /1
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For
@CJR
and
@pressfreedom
, I spoke with
@MalaliBashir
,
@MSharif1990
,
@LNajafizada
,
@QadirHabib
,
@RatebNoori
,
@saadmohseni
, and others about their fallen journalist colleagues in Afghanistan. Read the 22-interview oral history of their lives and work here.
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Thread: American journalists live in fear of physical violence against reporters becoming a routine, nationwide phenomenon. In France, it's already happening, and we should pay attention to it. (1/8)
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The press, if it's diligent, can ensure that fight outlives Epstein in more ways than just answering the questions posed by his death. I round up how in today's newsletter for
@CJR
, with enormous kudos, as ever, to
@jkbjournalist
and the
@MiamiHerald
. /2
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Food for thought for journalists who think it’s socially urgent that they grapple with this guy’s candidacy
One under-appreciated feature of the doomed RFK Jr. hype cycle is that, judging by who got them, mRNA Covid vaccines are actually hugely popular. According to the C.D.C., 80% of adults and 95% of seniors are vaxed. It's a large majority of Republicans and 95%+ of Democrats.
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For
@CJR
's Wednesday interview newsletter, I asked the great
@Sulliview
to weigh in on the coverage of the Biden-documents story, the extent to which the mainstream press is bothsidesing it, and whether it's the new "Hillary's emails."
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Also, I'm not sure how Guthrie doing well lets NBC off the hook. The criticism about the schedule clash wasn't premised on the assumption she'd do badly—it was that NBC forced viewers to make a needless choice, and rewarded Trump for blowing up the debate. Both are still true. /2
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...and be sure to read
@samthielman
's fascinating
@CJR
interview with Klippenstein from last year.
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For
@CJR
, I wrote about the woefully misplaced media conversation as to whether Biden's democracy speech last night was "political," which was a bit like seeing your house catch fire and shouting, "Wait a minute! This is a house!" /1
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My
@CJR
newsletter on yet another bleak day for American journalism, feat. thoughts/links from
@tuckwoodstock
,
@MrOlmos
,
@OPB
,
@ByMikeBaker
,
@katemshepherd
,
@eddybinfordross
,
@MathieuLRolland
,
@karinapdx
,
@WesleyLowery
, and many others. /3
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The lack of ideological diversity on cable news isn't just bad because it curbs substantive debate—it also skews horserace coverage. Trump's rise in 2016 proved this, and yet still, many have been surprised by the success of Sanders. Me today for
@CJR
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If I were you, Justin, I’d be more concerned about the demon goat at the front left of the picture
It was one thing when my son crashed my press conference a month or so ago, but this... Now is not the time to travel. Stay home - and by that, I mean your own home.
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I actually scooped
@benyt
by getting a Macron exclusive in 2016—after I cornered him outside an event I was covering for a Columbia J-School radio class with
@sherships
. But I forgot to turn on my audio recorder so it was lost to history, and now it’s Ben at the Times not me.
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#Mueller
has told us repeatedly that he won't go beyond his written report today. In all likelihood, he'll channel the energy of an exasperated parent who wants his kids to do their book report when they just want to watch the movie version instead. /1
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‘Sorry, we don’t accept Coynes.’
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Trump's claim that he'll be arrested tomorrow drove breathless weekend media coverage but turned out to be based on... media coverage—an exquisite microcosm of the broader Trump-press relationship. For
@CJR
I wrote about that...
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*small good personal news in dark times klaxon* I'm honored to have been nominated for a Mirror Award for coverage of impeachment coverage (alongside the great
@Sulliview
and
@joanwalsh
). It's for this
@CJR
newsletter that I wrote in December:
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Seen, and very much believed. More on Laura Ingraham rewriting the history of the Kentucky gubernatorial race in my newsletter for
@CJR
today:
Laura Ingraham's take on the Kentucky elections must be seen to be believed: "That is the power of Donald Trump... This is all very good news for Republicans."
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Back in March, I spoke with Jamal
#Khashoggi
for a broad
@CJR
piece on media coverage of Saudi Arabia. Following reports that he was murdered by Saudi officials in the country's Istanbul consulate last week, we're publishing the full interview with him.
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A week ago, a crime reporter in the Netherlands was shot after leaving a TV studio. The next day, a Turkish journalist in exile in Germany was attacked by his home. Four days after that, a Georgian journalist who was beaten by homophobic rioters died. /1
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Why the pained lexical contortion to avoid the word "racist" in coverage of Trump's tweets? To be fair, lots of outlets *did* use it directly. But there are still so many euphemisms around, as we saw previously with Trump and the word "lie." /1
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This paragraph isn’t the only reason you should immediately read
@lyzl
’s profile of Seth Abramson, but it’s a very good reason
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If you want a case study in a country’s entire media losing its mind at the same time, head on over to the U.K. now
BBC Four was going to show an England Women’s international football match tonight, but has instead cancelled all programming. The BBC will however still show the match but it’ll be hidden away as online iplayer stream and not on a traditional channel as a... show of respect?
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