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Category Archives: Media & Culture

Fox settles with Dominion, averting anxiously awaited trial in landmark defamation case

Excerpt: The pricetag for sparing the witness stand, and escaping accountability, came to $787.50 million. “The truth matters: Lies have consequences,” Dominion’s lawyer Justin Nelson said outside the courtroom. “Over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept Dominion and election officials across America into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to Dominion and the country.”
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Two-faced Tucker Carlson and the ugly underbelly of Rupert Murdoch’s FNC

Excerpt: “I hate him passionately,” Tucker said in an email two days before the January 6th insurrection, adding that “we are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Book Review: 100% Democracy makes the case for adopting universal voting in the U.S.

Excerpt: Read NPI's review of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, by writer E. J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport, a former Secretary of State.
Written by:Alexa Moormeier
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Seattle Times endorses NPI’s legislation to repeal statewide “advisory votes”

Excerpt: Titled "Boot confusing advisory votes from WA ballots," this is a fresh contender for our team's favorite Seattle Times editorial. It's well written, has compelling opening and concluding passages, and the logic that holds it together is sound.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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President Biden challenges Congress to help him “finish the job” of getting America back on track in upbeat State of the Union address

Excerpt: “To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress,” said Biden. “The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere."
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Dori Monson: 1961–2022

Excerpt: Longtime right wing talk radio host Dori Monson died suddenly this weekend of an unspecified condition after being hospitalized, his employer Bonneville Seattle announced on its website today. Monson was sixty-one. 
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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NYT admits its midterms coverage was wrongly wedded to a “red wave” narrative

Excerpt: "Not for the first time, a warped understanding of the contours of a national election had come to dominate the views of political operatives, donors, journalists and, in some cases, the candidates themselves," the story penned by the trio of Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger, and Steve Eder acknowledged.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The New York Times is failing readers with its awful, one-sided 2022 midterms coverage

Excerpt: The ending of the 2022 midterms has yet to be written, but NYT editors and reporters are convinced they know what's going to happen. They are churning out stories that have Republican victory is just ahead as the premise, with headlines that endlessly play up Republicans' chances and suggest Democrats are doomed.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The threat to American elections: No time for hysteria, but we should all be worried

Excerpt: With a nation’s news media “hollowed out” by closings and downsizings, Seattle-based InvestigateWest is swimming against a tide as it pursues a task vital to the republic: It has taken on the job of seeking the truth about those seeking power in America, specifically reporting on ongoing threats to American democracy.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Birds of a feather flock together: Dori Monson brings Tim Eyman on his show for a gripefest about Attorney General Bob Ferguson

Excerpt: Loathing Ferguson -- "the most dangerous politician in our state's history," to quote Monson -- is a shared pastime of both men.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Midterms marvel: Seattle Times endorses a Democratic-only slate in marquee races

Excerpt: In what may come as a pleasant surprise to the majority of its readers, The Seattle Times is recommending a Democratic-only slate of candidates in each of the marquee contests that's on the 2022 ballot. 
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Documentary Review: The Arctic — Our Last Great Wilderness is an immersive, stirring call to conserve one of Earth’s wildest places

Excerpt: Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's review of a film created by Florian Schulz and the Campion Advocacy Fund that majestically makes the case for leaving the Arctic Refuge free from destructive activities like oil and petroleum gas drilling.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS

Excerpt: Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves.
Written by:Alexa Moormeier
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Book Review: Flipped recounts Georgia progressives’ big 2020 breakthrough

Excerpt: The thrilling victories of the Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which were followed within hours by the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, are richly chronicled in Flipped, a recently published book by the chief political reporter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Greg Bluestein.
Written by:Alexa Moormeier
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