The Trumpification of the Republican Party has proven a character test for its officeholders and candidates. History is unlikely to look kindly on those who carried water for the first Oval Office occupant to refuse to participate in the peaceful transfer of power to his legitimately elected successor.
Tag: Media Criticism
Posted inElections
Allowing localities to switch their elections to even years is far from a “premature” idea
Read NPI’s rebuttal to an editorial in The Herald of Everett that argued that lawmakers should not pass NPI’s legislation to give localities the freedom to choose their own election timing.
Posted inMedia & Culture
Book Review: Collision of Power examines the Bezos/Trump years at The Washington Post
Read NPI’s review of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post by Martin Barton.
Posted inElections
NYT admits its midterms coverage was wrongly wedded to a “red wave” narrative
“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.
Posted inElections
The New York Times is failing readers with its awful, one-sided 2022 midterms coverage
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.
Posted inMedia & Culture
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.
Posted inMedia & Culture
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 inMedia & Culture
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.
Posted inPolicy Topics
The occupation convoys plaguing Canada are a slick, foreign-funded attack on democracy
All told, more money has flowed toward the convoy protest than was given to Canada’s three major political parties in the last quarter of 2021. One percent of donors has accounted for twenty percent of the money donated.
Posted inElections, Media & Culture
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.
Posted inTechnology
Media coverage of BlackBerry’s end of support for legacy mobile services high on nostalgia, but low on accuracy and precision
Rather than gathering facts and then reporting the more complex details of this event, a whole bunch of stories appear to have been written on the basis of a press release and a company end of life document. A simplistic narrative has once again prevailed over the more complicated reality.
Posted inPolicy Topics
The two faces of Sean Hannity: Fox host privately advised Trump to go back to Florida while publicly attacking our democracy
Unbelievable as it may seem, Hannity briefly offered Trump sensible advice in closing days of his scandal-ridden presidency, according to a treasure trove of emails obtained by the House Selection Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Posted inMedia & Culture
Yo, NYT! Washington’s tax code is definitely regressive, but the state’s Democratic leaders have actually been working on changing that
“Blue States, You’re the Problem” certainly has excellent production values and slick visuals. The discussion, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired. The opinion video by the New York Times’ Johnny Harris and Binyamin Appelbaum could have been so much better… deeper, richer, and more informative.
Posted inMedia & Culture
Don’t expect right wing media to apologize for deceptively declaring I‑1639 to be dead
Last week, right wing blogs and media outlets credited the NRA with a big victory when a judge blocked the Alliance for Gun Responsibility’s I‑1639 from the ballot. Now that the Supreme Court has reversed that judge’s decision, though, no mea culpas appear to be forthcoming.