| 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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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Two-faced Tucker Carlson and the ugly underbelly of Rupert Murdoch’s FNC
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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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." |
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| Published at: | 11:32 PM on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | State of the Union |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 5:48 PM on Sunday, January 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Obituaries, Radio |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 1:15 PM on Saturday, December 31st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Media Criticism, Research Polling Retrospectives, WA-Sen |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, October 31st, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism, Media Criticism |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 7:52 PM on Thursday, September 29th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections, Future of Journalism |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 8:19 PM on Friday, August 5th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Media Criticism |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 5:48 PM on Saturday, July 16th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Media Criticism, WA-08, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Our Environment, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Conservation, Films |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Healthcare, Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Books, Combating Diseases, Global Health |
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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. |
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| Published at: | 7:22 PM on Saturday, May 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Books, GA-Sen |
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Fox settles with Dominion, averting anxiously awaited trial in landmark defamation case