| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post by Martin Barton. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Saturday, November 11th, 2023 |
| Written by: | David Kobrin |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books, Media Criticism, Media Ownership |
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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Book Review: Collision of Power examines the Bezos/Trump years at The Washington Post
Republican rivals bash Trump and each other in party’s second 2024 presidential debate
| Excerpt: | Multiple voices shouted over one another and genuine dislikes emerged as seven Republican presidential hopefuls held their second debate tonight on party-aligned FNC at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Republican Presidential Debates, Television |
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Book Review: “What Are You Gonna Do About It?” presents the wisdom of Jolene Unsoeld
| Excerpt: | Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's review of “What Are You Gonna Do About It? Stories of a Hopeless Meddler,” from Jolene Unsoeld, completed after her death by her son Krag Unsoeld. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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Book Review: An assault on American democracy and our responsibility to stop it
| Excerpt: | Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's review of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy, by renowned journalist David Neiwert. |
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| Published at: | 11:45 AM on Monday, August 28th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books, Extremism Watch |
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The Stranger versus PubliCola versus The Urbanist: Comparing their August 2023 Seattle City Council endorsements
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's analysis of the endorsements published by The Stranger, PubliCola, and The Urbanist for Seattle City Council in the August 2023 Top Two election. |
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| Published at: | 1:46 PM on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Endorsements Analysis, WA-Cities |
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Ultra MAGA Republicans give RFK’s wayward son another platform to spew his bile
| Excerpt: | The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, invited Robert F. Kennedy's son to entertain them with conspiracy theories and misinformation on July 20th. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 PM on Friday, July 21st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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The Seattle Times versus The Stranger: How their 2023 MLKC area endorsements compare
| Excerpt: | With each paper's set of endorsements now available to scrutinize, our team thought it would be interesting to do a comparison and see where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were... but not always! |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Cities, WA-Counties, WA-Ports, WA-Schools |
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A majority of Washington voters agree big tech companies should have to pay for news
| Excerpt: | 55% of 773 likely general election voters in Washington interviewed earlier this month said they strongly or somewhat agreed that big tech companies like Google and Facebook should be obligated to pay media publishers for news content. Only 17% somewhat or strongly disagreed, and 27% were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Friday, June 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism, Research Poll Findings |
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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.” |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism |
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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.” |
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| Published at: | 11:43 AM on Thursday, March 9th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism, Television |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 3:30 PM on Sunday, February 26th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Books, Universal Voting |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Monday, February 13th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Noteworthy Editorials, Permanent Defense, Tim Eyman's Push Polls |
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Steve Pool: 1953–2023