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Jack Shafer

7 years

"The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly...

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

3 years

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) just promised Newsmax to introduce articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on Jan. 21.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

Legalize pot but criminalize menthol cigarettes? Please explain.

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Jack Shafer

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5 years

A periodic reminder of how lucky we were that the brave bastards at @BuzzFeednews published the Steele Dossier.

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Jack Shafer

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7 years

Reporters can be loved or they can do journalism. They must pick one.

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Jack Shafer

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7 years

Jared Kushner profiled in a paragraph.

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Jack Shafer

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5 years

@JeffBezos You can't blackmail somebody who won't agree to be blackmailed.

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

Having Giuliani in the mix is almost like having a second Trump.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Tucker Carlson promised free Starbucks. Where is it?

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

How many mistakes is CNN going to allow Chris Cuomo to commit?

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

6 years

"If I Did It," by Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

8 years

Does Obamacare cover the sniffles?

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

The only journalism prize worth boasting about: Being called a bad reporter by Trump.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

You should read everything @NatashaBertrand writes, including this piece on Whitaker.

Matthew Whitaker Plays to an Audience of One

Throughout a contentious oversight hearing, the acting attorney general seemed to be auditioning for his next job in the Trump administration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

“Harvard’s idea of diversity...is for everyone to look different and think alike.” --Harvey Silverglate.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

@EricTrump @washingtonpost @JeffBezos In which @erictrump inadvertently helps @Fahrenthold recruit new sources.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

No business gives itself more awards than does journalism.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Steve Bannon had an estimated worth of $48 million in 2017 according to Forbes and a purported stake in Seinfeld syndication. Unless absolutely mad, why would he grift $1 million in a build the wall scheme?

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

CNN seems to be loading up on docs, scientists, public health pros and minimizing the number of politicians it puts on the air. That's good.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Let the record show that any Democrat who declines to answer the court-packing question should be credited with being in favor of it. Problem solved.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

I'm glad Anonymous was there to stop Trump from ordering the assassination of Soleimani.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

"Pete Townshend says, “That incredible virtuosity combined with that beautiful grin allows me to forgive him for letting David Lee Roth stand in front of him.'”

Van Halen’s Split Personality: How a Geek and a Physique Created Thud Rock’s Most Successful...

"That incredible virtuosity combined with that beautiful grin allows me to forgive him for letting David Lee Roth stand in front of him."

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

6 years

"I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know. ...So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?” --Michael Cohen, 2015

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

Ninety-nine percent of members of Congress are unable to ask questions that elicit new information from witnesses.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

We need a nickname for the whistleblower, something like Deep Throat, if only to reduce the vague references to him as "the whistleblower."

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Trump talks like a 3rd grader.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

These windy, self-congratulatory pressers aren't doing the country much good. Somebody needs to tighten and focus this fucking show.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

@Olivianuzzi writes the paragraph she was born to write.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Trump could devote his post-presidency years to Habitat for Humanity. Just a thought.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

@ericbradner @gdebenedetti @mkraju He'd make a lovely president.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

This coronavirus overview by infectious diseases reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. is the single best thing I've read all month.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

The man who claims to fear for his family once said this: "And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know...So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

3 years

This season finale is really something.

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Jack Shafer

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2 years

At what point does it become Biden's pandemic?

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Jack Shafer

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1 year

We were promised a defamation trial and goddamnit we're gonna have one.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Maggie Haberman just earned journalism's greatest accolade: Trump called her a "third-rate reporter."

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

The Pouting President has started back up on Twitter this morning. No new medical advice given.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

The press is easily diverted. FBI investigators less so.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

There has never been a better time to be a medical crackpot.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

The more Trump talks about coronavirus the less I know.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

@GovHowardDean This man ran for president.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

That dream that you're going to flunk a college class because you stopped attending and forgot to drop it.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

Who had "framed by Rick Perry"?

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Trump's reluctance to show his face today encourages us to think he's more rather than less sick.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

The WH press corps could really piss Trump off by addressing all of their questions to the public health advisors and ignore him.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

3 years

Trump deserves impeachment as much for what he didn't do--call off his dogs in a timely fashion, send security backup--as what he did do (incite).

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

The more you watch Trump, the less you know about anything.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

Here's the breaking news investigation that Trump is trying to distract you from reading/discussing/retweeting:

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Jack Shafer

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7 years

Man ties email chain around his throat, jumps off the pier.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Trump can't reopen what he didn't shut down. @latimes

Can Trump reopen the economy on May 1? Not really

President Trump says he wants to reopen the economy by May 1, but it's not clear how. Governors and mayors will ultimately decide what to allow.

www.latimes.com

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Things are starting to get a 1968 feel to them.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, two dozen amyls, and a blisterpak of hydroxychloroquinine.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

3 years

If the Trump-Raffensburger call was confidential, then Trump violated the confidentiality agreement with his Sunday morning tweet about its content, right?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia. He was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the “ballots under table” scam, ballot destruction, out of state “voters”, dead voters, and more. He has no clue!

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Pence is without shame. Without pride. Without scruples.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

For one bright, shining, brief moment in 2019, @politico had the best headline on a story.

Politico Removes 'Fucknutsville' From Headline on Impeachment

"Bring back Fucknutsville."

www.mediaite.com

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

6 years

Donald Trump's promotional campaign for the Wolff book is now in its third day.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

I'm paid to watch this. Why would anybody else endure it?

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

When they came for the straws, I said nothing.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

@GeoffRBennett @EliStokols Trump can go first.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

"Newsmax Loses More Than Half Its Audience Since Post-Election Ratings Surge"

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

Unsolicited Journalism Advice #1 : Always bury your lede. It will give your editor something to do and keep his paws off the rest of your story.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

Lede of the Day: "As I sit down to write this, I can hear Helen shouting from the bed, 'Keep it short, Damian, it’s not about you.'”

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

I will give John King $5 if he slaps Wolf Blitzer the next time he interrupts.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

Somewhere in America there is a very unhappy couple named Brandon and Karen.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

That @kaitlancollins has guts in surplus.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

6 years

November 2016

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

New @politico : The press swoons for Kamala Harris

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

2 years

@davidfolkenflik Rupert Murdoch doesn't traditionally back a loser for very long.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

2 years

@jdawsey1 @michaelscherer @mattzap The White House lawyers would gather to inventory the crazy ideas being touted inside the administration and then assign them, tag team style, so no one of them received all of Trump's ire. “We referred to this as choosing who would ‘eat the grenade,’” former AG Bill Barr writes.

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Jack Shafer

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7 years

"What can we do to get the press to chase its tail?" "How about have Sanders call for Jemele Hill's firing?" "Perfect."

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Jack Shafer

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2 years

@NPR The stupidest thing NPR has ever proposed, and that's saying a lot.

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Jack Shafer

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5 years

I've never seen @jaketapper beaten so badly in an interview before.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

8 years

Very little fake business news. Very little fake sports news. Because those audiences are too discerning.

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Jack Shafer

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3 years

Sean Hannity is complaining about the silencing of dissent on his popular 9pm show.

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

“Style can’t carry a story if you haven’t done the reporting.” --Tom Wolfe

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3 years

Overheard: " @jaketapper must get tired of making that pained face all day."

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4 years

I feel like @jaketapper and I have really gotten to know each other since Tuesday afternoon.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Donald Trump Talks Like a Third-Grader

Donald Trump isn’t a simpleton, he just talks like one.

www.politico.com

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Jack Shafer

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5 years

Next up, Joe Biden's streaming colonoscopy.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

This is like The Death of Stalin.

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

Trump's "consciousness of guilt." By @joshtpm

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Jack Shafer

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1 year

We've sent too many reporters to Delaware for Fox to get wobbly now.

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Jack Shafer

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7 years

Without logos or signs, I can't reliably tell the Nazis from the anti-Nazis in the TV shots.

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Jack Shafer

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5 years

Stop me if you've heard this speech before.

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

The Trump administration and his doctors are contradicting one another because they don't want to panic the country.

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7 years

Just because he's dead doesn't mean you have to say something nice about him. Would he give you the same break?

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4 years

"Don’t spend more time analyzing an idea that the president proposes than he spent coming up with it." @crampell

Opinion | Here are four suggested New Year’s resolutions for the media

I hope others in my industry will adopt them — and call me out if I don’t.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

What if they've indicted Bannon to get him to flip? Prosecutors are like that.

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6 years

“Fox News is not about news. Fox News is about Fox. Fox News is about getting a tonal point of view, making sure that viewers get what they think viewers need to get, whether or not that involves, much of the time, facts.” -- @davidfolkenflik on CNN

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

"Wasted," by Mark Judge, reviewed in the @nytimes 1997.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

3 years

"New York Times Admits Babylon Bee is ‘Satire,’ Not ‘Misinformation,’ After Legal Threat"

New York Times Admits Babylon Bee is 'Satire,' Not 'Misinformation,' After Legal Threat

The New York Times corrected a story referring to the satirical Babylon Bee website as "misinformation" after the site's operators threatened legal action, calling the description "imprecise."

www.mediaite.com

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

6 years

Never tweet "stand by for news." Never.

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4 years

The Trump government in exile has established a foothold at Four Seasons Total Landscape and will beginning exchanging ambassadors on Monday.

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Jack Shafer

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6 years

The border story has been great for Scott Pruitt.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

7 years

Nat Hentoff was a gas to read and a joy to edit. A 1st Amendment radical, a sharp music critic, and an inquisitive reporter. And a good egg.

Nicholas Hentoff

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Sad to report the death of my father #NatHentoff tonight at the age of 91. He died surrounded by family listening to Billie Holiday.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

8 years

The Trump victory reveals the two leading conservative magazines--National Review and Weekly Standard--as leaders with no followers.

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Jack Shafer

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3 months

"It’s not that often that you get a unanimous 57-page decision on novel questions of law in 28 days. And you almost never get an opinion of this quality in such a short period of time." @gtconway3d

An Airtight Ruling Against Trump

In a masterful opinion, the D.C. Circuit rejected the former president’s bid for immunity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

4 years

Sympathy for the Atlantic fact-checkers: Fact-checking is designed to spot errors in copy, not ferret out deliberate deceptions by a writer. Once a journo decides to violate the trust of a publication by lying, the game to rigged against even the best fact-checkers.

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Jack Shafer

@jackshafer

5 years

Politico is hiring all the journalists--this month, national security ace @NatashaBertrand will join our squad. A giant red, all-caps Futura welcome to Natasha!

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Jack Shafer

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4 years

Harvard is the new University of Phoenix.

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