| Excerpt: | With self-absorption and self-praise, The Seattle Times has made a big deal of its dogged pursuit of public records and commitment to open government. The newspaper should display an equal commitment to public comment. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Open Government |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism, Public Records |
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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Read the guest essay defending City Attorney Pete Holmes that The Seattle Times refused to publish before the August Top Two election
Book Review: “We See It All” is a good study of current local police capabilities
| Excerpt: | Read David A. Johnson's review of Economist journalist Jon Fasman's new book exploring elements of technology and practices in modern policing in the United States. |
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| Published at: | 3:00 PM on Sunday, May 16th, 2021 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Books, Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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Book Review: John Boehner laments his party’s mutation into a cult in new memoir
| Excerpt: | Read Joel Connelly's review of ex-Speaker John Boehner's memoir of his time in U.S. politics. Boehner resigned from the House in October of 2015, five years after assuming power. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Books |
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Book Review: In the U.S., the desire to “Break It Up” is more American than America itself
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Break It Up by Richard Kreitner (Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union). |
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| Published at: | 3:00 PM on Sunday, March 21st, 2021 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Attack on the Capitol, Books |
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The airbrushing of the late Rush Limbaugh: A mocking, racist demagogue is depicted as shy, private, and “enormously generous”
| Excerpt: | For decades, Rush Limbaugh heaped abuse on people as a syndicated practitioner of hate speech. Now he's gone. His contemporaries in right wing media are now trying to memorialize a Rush who never existed. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Thursday, February 18th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Obituaries, Radio |
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Book Review: When “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear”, nobody wins (except the reader)
| Excerpt: | Read NPIs review of Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's book about the New Hampshire town that libertarians tried to turn into a utopia. |
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| Published at: | 3:00 PM on Sunday, January 24th, 2021 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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Spokesman-Review to ditch endorsements after furious backlash to pro-Trump editorial
| Excerpt: | Spokane's daily newspaper will stop publishing unsigned editorials and candidate endorsements after its publisher's exhortation to vote for Donald Trump was poorly received. |
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| Published at: | 10:23 PM on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism, US-Pres |
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Some takeaways from the final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
| Excerpt: | This debate was seen by many as a return to civility, but Trump was still full of lies, conspiracy theories and nonsensical claims. |
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| Published at: | 11:25 AM on Friday, October 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Presidential Debates, US-Pres |
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Dori Monson indefinitely suspended by Seahawks, KIRO after transphobic tweet
| Excerpt: | The right wing talk show host is off the air and no longer has a show, at least as of October 2020. |
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| Published at: | 5:06 PM on Friday, October 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism |
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Book Review: Brian Stelter’s “Hoax” offers a fresh look at how Fox corrodes democracy
| Excerpt: | Read Joel Connelly's review of a 2020 book examining the destructive influence of Rupert Murdoch's right wing cable channel, in the tradition of Outfoxed, The Republican Noise Machine, and Murdoch's World. |
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| Published at: | 5:27 PM on Thursday, September 24th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books, Future of Journalism, Television |
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Instructive bad reading, Part IV: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
| Excerpt: | Fourth installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Monday, August 24th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Series & Special Reports, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Practicing civil discourse in polarized times isn’t easy, but it can bring people together