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.
Category: Media & Culture
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The threat to American elections: No time for hysteria, but we should all be worried
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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Birds of a feather flock together: Dori Monson brings Tim Eyman on his show for a gripefest about Attorney General Bob Ferguson
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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Midterms marvel: Seattle Times endorses a Democratic-only slate in marquee races
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.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Documentary Review: The Arctic — Our Last Great Wilderness is an immersive, stirring call to conserve one of Earth’s wildest places
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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Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS
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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Book Review: Flipped recounts Georgia progressives’ big 2020 breakthrough
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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Documentary Review: In new Netflix series, Barack Obama exhorts viewers to “vote like the planet depends on it” — because it does
The five-part series features parks in Kenya and Indonesia, as if to mock years of attacks on Obama’s origins and childhood from wacko birds of the right.
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Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t going well, but with no free press to hold him accountable, public opinion isn’t turning against him
Former U.S. Representative Don Bonker explains how Russia’s lack of a free press has allowed Vladimir Putin to manipulate public opinion in his favor even though Putin’s murderous war in Ukraine isn’t getting results for the Kremlin.
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Book Review: Left Behind puts the DLC’s failed track record under a microscope
Read NPI’s review of Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, by historian Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
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Extremism Watch: Sinclair’s Jonathan Choe serves up lots of publicity for the Proud Boys
Choe calls himself a journalist — he even emphasizes that label as part of his Twitter handle — but he rarely seems to practice what the Society of Professional Journalists defines in their code of ethics as journalism. On March 19th, he pretty much dropped any pretense of being a journalist and instead chose to act as a press agent for the Proud Boys during his afternoon in Olympia.
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Book Review: Laboratories of Autocracy puts Republican-run statehouses under a spotlight
Read NPI’s review of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines, by Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper.
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Why the 2022 midterms in Washington State could look more like 2018 than 2010 or 2014
In this in-depth post for The Cascadia Advocate, NPI’s founder and executive director discusses how Republicans are working successfully to push reporters and pollsters to view the midterms on their terms and critiques Stuart Elway’s recent Washington State polling.
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Book Review: Flying Blind examines the bad decisions that led to Boeing’s current crises
Read NPI’s review of The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, by award-winning Bloomberg reporter Peter Robison.