“After spending years cultivating public apathy, the Russian president found his people indifferent to his fate,” Anne Applebaum writes.
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Trump has long known how to manipulate the media
“The media have been covering Trump and his legal woes for 50 years, and he knows we have yet to get it right,” writes LZ Granderson, an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times.
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Jen Psaki effortlessly swats down right wing correspondent’s “some say” nonsense
The White House Press Secretary continually pressed Newsmax’s Emerald Robinson to name names, catching Robinson off guard.
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“Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting”
“Refusing to go with live coverage. Suspending normal relations with his White House. Always asking: is this something we should amplify? A focus on what he’s doing, not on what he’s saying. The truth sandwich when we feel we have to highlight his false claims. This is what you can expect now that our coverage has been switched to an emergency setting.”
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Frank Bruni: Ideas should matter more to journalists than the politics of personality and likability
“We journalists should never again write that someone is too old, too young, too polarizing, too petty, too cranky or too whatever to win an election. We should listen to what he or she is saying and then analyze, with an open mind, how it’s being heard.”
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The White House press briefing, always a spin zone, is now approaching uselessness
“There is a big difference between not getting information and the press using the entire briefing time to ask the same two or three questions over and over and being upset that the answers don’t change no matter how many times they ask it.”
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KJR’s Mitch Levy caught in prostitution sting
Yesterday, The Seattle Times reported that Bellevue police had conducted a prostitution sting in Bellevue, opening up their own temporary brothel. Over one hundred men
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Why Trump loves Arizona
Arizona had prepared Trump’s path in more spiritual ways that long predated that transformative 2015 rally. With an economy built on real-estate deals, and some
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Big win for media diversity: The Chicago Sun-Times is wrenched away from a rival publisher
The Chicago Sun-Times will not fall into the hands of Tronc, the company that owns its crosstown rival thanks an eleventh hour intervention by a group of white knight investors that includes the Chicago Federation of Labor.
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George W. Bush speechwriter: The conservative mind has become diseased
“The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently,” writes Michael Gerson.
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Sinclair requires TV stations, including KOMO, to air segments that tilt to the right
A must-read from The New York Times. “Eight current and former KOMO employees describe a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclair’s programming directives, especially must-runs pieces, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality.”
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Inside a fake news sausage factory: ‘This is all about income’
“A computer science student in a former Soviet republic found there was money to made mixing real and made-up stories, as long as they were pro-Trump,” The New York Times reports.
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Fox Noise Channel, Roger Ailes hit with $50 million lawsuit by ex-host Andrea Tantaros
Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency,
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Gawker Was Murdered by Gaslight
If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The
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UW had ‘Fight Club’ rule of secrecy about KPLU deal
“Emails and records show UW and KUOW officials worked to keep details secret about the Seattle public radio station’s intentions to buy its competitor KPLU until the day university regents approved the plan. PLU, meanwhile, insisted on not revealing that it initiated the deal,” The Seattle Times reports.
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What happens to journalists when no one wants to print their words anymore?
“As newsrooms disappear, veteran older reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism — and democracy,” writes Dale Maharidge.
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Robert Reich: Political reporters seem to only know how to report four kinds of stories
Political reporters know only four stories: (1) who’s up and who’s down, (2) how much money candidates have raised, (3) which candidates have made what
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A little earlier this evening, The New York Times reported that its most excellent media columnist David Carr had collapsed while at work in the
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