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Jay Rosen

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7 years

Have you ever seen Wolf Blitzer do this? Brian Williams?

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Brilliant cartoon, @wuerker

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"...I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled. " — @gabrielsherman

Fox News is worried about legal action after misleading viewers about coronavirus

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6 years

For me, this is the quote of the year. From 1951.

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So far this is my favorite exchange from the Biden crew's briefing room. ZEKE MILLER: Why is the president going to Delaware this weekend? PSAKI: He's from there.

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Restating: If I ran a newsoom I would not run his briefings live. I would not send reporters so he can waste our time and use them as hate objects. I would tell them to watch it on CSPAN and report any news that emerges. If he makes a factual claim it has to be verified or no go.

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I think about her colleagues at Walter Reed, her family, her teachers at Penn State and Houghton College. What must they be thinking as they watch this hostage tape, and hear her describe him as a master of the scientific literature and a wizard with data.

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3 years

Watch this remarkable confrontation between a former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Paul Kelly, editor-at-large for one of Murdoch's key properties, The Australian. The subject is climate change and the Murdoch empire's disastrous legacy.

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7 years

This clip is justifiably gaining fame as an example of live fact checking and the refusal to grant talking points.

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4 years

Many, many people told me the briefings could be made to "work" if the reporters would only work together. Yesterday three reporters, @weijia , @kaitlancollins and @Yamiche , worked together (good for them) and the result was he stormed out.

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The @GOP 's verified account sent this out. That he won in a landslide. Here, I think, the party made official its break with American democracy. Not saying it wasn't apparent before. It was. Just more official now. As ridiculous as Sydney Powell is, this is a sobering moment.

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"We will not be intimidated...We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom."—Sidney Powell

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Watch this outstanding summary of what's going in the U.S. election by BBC journalist Ros Atkins. Sometimes you need to see "us" through another's eyes to understand where we are. It's only 45 seconds.

Ros Atkins

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3 years

My summary of another extraordinary day for American democracy.

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4 years

Anyone who says he now soberly accepts the realiity of the pandemic. No. He switched claims. From we're doing a fantastic job, the virus is like 15 people to we're doing a fantastic job, if we did nothing it would be millions dead. Those calling him sober are the marks.

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2 years

The absurd met the pathetic on Meet the Press this week when Peggy Noonan tried to say with a straight face the Republican Party should "use this opportunity" to change and improve its standing with women. The whole panel dissolved in laughter. I will try to post the clip later.

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Jay Rosen

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6 years

"The only person owed an apology here is Ms Wolf, for being scolded by the very people who invited her to speak, and who purport to defend a 'vigorous and free press'"

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3 years

Jake Tapper does a great job here. It's the right mix of news reporting, astonishment and outrage. And it begins with Biden as the man of the hour, not the deposed would-be autocrat, or any of his dead enders. Watch it.

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4 years

At least four White House correspondents have contracted the virus. They are risking their health to bring us the news. They work in an unsafe environment created by a shambolic President of the United States.

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5 years

Something has happened to Chuck Todd. I view @MeetThePress almost every week. Today his tone — I mean his voice itself — was different, as if the gravity of events had sunk in and his patience with denial had run out. Now go to 0:32 in this clip and watch.

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Jay Rosen

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5 years

We don't know why CNN did a town hall with Howard Schultz, who is not a declared candidate and has no visible support. They won't explain it. We don't know why CNN hired Sarah Isgur Flores, a political operative who joined in culture war attacks on CNN. They won't explain it.

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6 years

Hey, I'm 62. I never thought I would be in this situation, wondering if American democracy can make it through. But here we are. The day after the 2016 election was bad. This in a way is worse. Dark times.

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4 years

Read this headline: A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn’t Violate Any Rules. It remained up. Two people were shot dead. Then it came down. Now for the story:

A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Modera...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the reason the militia page and an associated event remained online after a shooting that killed two people was due to “an operational mistake.”

www.buzzfeednews.com

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3 years

"Don’t allow him to become a self-styled president in exile, the golf-cart version of Napoleon on Elba. Do not set up a Mar-a-Lago bureau.Don’t have entire reporting beats dedicated to what he and his family members are up to." — @sulliview .

Perspective | Journalists, it’s time for a cold-turkey breakup with Trump

This media antagonist was an irresistible news-driver. Breaking the habit won’t be easy. Here’s how to do it.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

Amazing clip. Pompeo: zip. Brava, @NPRKelly and Morning Edition. I don't get to say that very often these days, but it is justified here.

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4 years

The haunting words of Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, May 20, 2016.

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7 years

This is a brilliant passage.

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3 years

Greg Sargent tells me: "I believe Republicans are banking on a pathology of the press, in which the media will place the entire onus of unity on Biden, and allow the Republican claim that unity hasn't been achieved to count as proof of itself." His post:

Opinion | Fake GOP rage over Biden’s ‘unity’ speech is a sucker’s game

Don't get snowed by GOP fury over Biden's condemnation of right-wing extremism.

www.washingtonpost.com

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3 years

I agree with Timothy Snyder. This is where it's going, and there is presently nothing on the horizon that would stop it.

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4 years

He doesn't know anything. He doesn't care to learn. He has no policy views. Nothing he says can be trusted. He's not good at anything a president has to do. His model of leadership is the humiliation of others. These should be the six starting points for covering his presidency.

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5 years

I'm with everyone else. The word "existential" has no business there. It's just wrong. The glamour photography is absurdly out of place. And the article itself presents obeying the law as almost a lifestyle choice.

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Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena

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4 years

It's a pattern. When women reporters challenge him and make it clear that they will keep insisting, his perimeter defenses light up, his systems shut down, and he can't processs what's happening. So he ends the briefing.

Brian Stelter

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4 years

Trump abruptly ended his Q&A when @PaulaReidCBS asked him this: "Why do you keep saying that you passed Veterans Choice? It was passed in 2014. But it was a false statement, sir."

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2 years

This is where we are now.

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Australian journalist visiting the U.S. sees it. "Watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence." via @brianstelter

As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor

Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence

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2 years

It is hard to find a more consensus figure in American journalism than Marvin Kalb, formerly of CBS and NBC News. He is now telling the American press that its lust to show how it can be critical of Biden is distorting the news and hurting the country.

Press “bothsideism” has failed Biden, and America | Brookings

The journalistic curse of "bothsideism" has damaged Biden's presidency.

www.brookings.edu

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1 year

The New York Times should "finally apologize for the sins of 2016, expose exactly what went wrong, and then reveal the rest, so this kind of disaster never happens again. They owe it to American democracy." That's @Will_Bunch on the McGonigal factor.

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016.

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8 months

I doubt we will ever know (same company) but I would love to hear what @Maddow thought about NBC's interview with Trump. She is the one who said on air: “There’s a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things.” NBC willingly paid that cost today. 8/

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4 years

You know what I can't get over? The single most potent force for misinforming the American public is the president of the United States. Neither the political system nor the media system was built for this.

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A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can: "Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:

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2 years

It's not that hard, as the Star-Tribune shows. Just be blunt. Via @mcpli

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2 years

Free lede for any newsroom that needs it. WASHINGTON, August 9. Former president Donald Trump has so far refused to release the warrant served on him Monday, keeping voters in the dark, and creating an information vacuum that supporters have filled with threats and accusations.

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Donald Trump has a copy of the search warrant. He’d show us the warrant if he were so wronged. Show it or shut it.

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3 years

We need a better question than, "how can Republican Senators vote to acquit after seeing this?" After seeing this, what kind of Republican Party does a vote to acquit build?

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6 months

Here's something that a lot of you have been asking for. Rep. Steve Scalise refuses to give a straight answer five times when asked whether the 2020 election was stolen. Stephanopoulos does not move on. He keeps asking. Then he ends the interview.

VIDEO: ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Steve Scalise Interview

"Can you say unequivocally the 2020 election was not stolen?" That was the question Stephanopoulos put to Scalise during a contentious interview on This Week.

www.mediaite.com

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5 years

When people who work in the White House appear on the Sunday shows, it's almost all noise— or worse. But when no one will show up... that's signal. It happened this week.

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5 years

The decision not to conduct any serious review of these events in 2016 — and learn from them — will have lasting effects on Times journalism. It already has.

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For months, @nytimes put stories of Hillary Clinton’s email on its front pages. The final investigative report clearing all of wrongdoing? That is on page 16 today.

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4 years

The deep grammar is still symmetrical: Biden is doing this, Trump is doing that. As if there's a chessboard between them. This is a distortion. There is one normal candidacy competing against an attempt to trigger a national emergency and crash the system.

Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order (Published 2020)

The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election’s remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump’s virus management, while the president is...

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"What Happens When Republicans Simply Refuse to Certify Democratic Wins?" by @DavidOAtkins If you think these are distant hypotheticals, you're not paying close enough attention. I know it's hard. But the threat is real.

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The editor of Forbes has an idea: "Let it be known to the business world," he wrote. If you hire any of Trump’s fog machines, fabulists or spokes-critters... "Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie."

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8 months

I said I would try to have an open mind as I watched Meet the Press today to see how NBC handled its interview with Trump and the debut of a new host. After viewing the show, reading NBC's fact check, and monitoring the program's Twitter feed, I am left with these impressions. 1/

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Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/

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Rand Paul just gave a master class in how the Big Lie — election denialism — exploits the "both sides" rule set in journalism. "Was the election stolen?" @GStephanopoulos asked. There was no second question. They fought all the way through. Rand kept saying: hear the other side!

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4 years

Incredible thread. And it shows why I keep saying: The battle to prevent Americans from understanding what went down January to April will be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in modern US history.

Eric Lipton

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As part of our reporting, The NYT obtained hundreds of emails among a group of the top pandemic experts in the US--doctors at HHS, DHS, State, VA, as well as former gov drs--as they watched the pandemic unfold in the United States. Here are some of their observations.

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By now when you bring on air that fog machine named Kellyanne — because that's who they offered — you are committing a hostile act against your viewers' understanding in order to protect your own professional conceit of even-handedness. @ThisWeekABC

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The emerging divide in journalism is not between "let all relevant arguments be heard" and "don't publish opinions we find repulsive." It's between those who ask, "is this something we should be amplifying?" and those who don't see the importance of putting the question that way.

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I'm watching a lot less cable news. How 'bout you?

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Mehdi Hasan reveals that he's not only losing his show, he's leaving MSNBC. What a low point for NBC News on the weekend of another low point, @kwelkernbc 's surrender to Elise Stefanik on Meet the Press. They want Welker. They don't want Hasan. How sad.

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A group of professors, myself included, have written an open letter to the heads of ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC and CNN petitioning for an end to live coverage of the president's briefings. If you're an academic and want to sign, scroll down....

Halt live coverage of Trump's COVID-19 briefings: Open letter to news outlets from professors of...

To: James Goldston, President, ABC News Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC Andrew Lack, Chairman, NBC News Susan Zirinsky, President, CBS News Jeff Zucker, Chairman WarnerMedia News An Open Letter from...

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6 years

Let me clue you into something, Washington press corps. Because you may cover politics, but you have no political sense of self. The people who support what you do are outraged by @PressSec 's normal behavior. The people who support @PressSec 's normal behavior are outraged by you.

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Everyone paying attention already gets this. I'm just writing it down for my own sanity after the events of January 6. As more comes out it feels like we know less because each new fact hints at a story much bigger than the one we have heard so far.

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Baker said this was a "hard problem" for people in his profession, but what can we do? Which is what I mean by a "zero innovations" model, in which you simply ignore the fact that interviewing Trump does not work. No accountability moment ever comes. 4/

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@jayrosen_nyu Trump doesn’t do interviews. He tells long fake stories that provide an alternate reality in which he’s the hero and allow his audience to conflate themselves with him as he pretends to vanquish imaginary enemies like “Sleepy Joe” “Crooked Hillary” “the Deep State” & “Fake News”

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Never thought I would see "Meet the Press" publicly disssent from a decision made by NBC News, but it happened today. Chuck Todd to Kristen Welker: "Our bosses owe you an apology." Then two other panelists explained on air why hiring Ronna McDaniel is such a credibility disaster.

Mike Hixenbaugh

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Quite a moment on Meet the Press this morning.

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I don't know what led @NPR to do this, but I am sure glad they did. A stark look at the Big Lie and the dangers ahead. No dilution via "both sides." No "critics say." No turning facts into opinions. Just a straight up warning. Listen to it.

The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring 'Big Lie'

Fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection was the "Big Lie" that Donald Trump won the election. One year later, many warn that lie has metastasized and now poses an even graver threat to American democracy.

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My personal view is that the Mark Meadows surrender statement,"We are not going to control the pandemic" was a much bigger story than the Washington press played it, even though the press played it medium big.

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This is a remarkable interview with Chuck Todd. He admits several times he has been naive about the Republicans' commitment to disinformation.

How Disinformation Spreads, According to Chuck Todd

Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation. Here’s how he sees it spreading and the media’s role in it.

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Reminder: Flooding the zone with shit, also known as the "firehose of falsehood," is a propaganda method for which there is no known solution. When the people running the government are determined to lower trust in everything — including themselves — there is no way to stop them.

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Phrases like "rewriting history" and "muddying the waters" do not convey what is underway. It's an attempt to prevent Americans from understanding what happened to them through the strategic use of confusion.

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Social science teaches us that a factor in people's willingness to express the views they actually hold is their sense of how many others hold that view. Which is one reason street demonstrations — and coverage of them — matter. They can shift that sense.

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"Wednesday’s briefing was arguably the most abnormal moment yet in a profoundly abnormal presidency. But top news organizations, rather than accurately representing Trump’s alarming behavior, made it sound like nothing untoward happened at all."

Big media is covering up Trump’s terrifying incoherence in a time of emergency | Press Watch

Getting Played

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5 years

The "make Elizabeth warren say she would raise taxes on the middle class" question should be a credibility killer. For the journalists who keep asking it.

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2 years

My suggestions. * No build up, no count down, no empty podium awaiting his arrival * Don't carry it live; disinformation risk too high * After it's over, sift for any genuine news and report it * Do not amplify familiar lies and distortions; they've all been fact checked already

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@jayrosen_nyu Any advice on how the press should handle DJT’s presser on Jan. 6th?

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4 years

Many, many people have told me they wanted this question asked.

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Question: Do you regret at all the lying you’ve done to the American people?

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"It’s the opposite of news because the information Trump dispenses is filled with misinformation. Airing it live, knowing Trump’s record for dishonesty, is professionally irresponsible." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, editorial board.

Editorial: It's time for the networks to stop live broadcast of Trump's briefings

The coronavirus task force briefings have ceased to be informative. They serve to keep the spotlight on Trump for his political promotion.

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The Washington Post's headline — late in arriving, but on the mark when it did — makes the original header at the New York Times sound almost surreal: "Trump takes Veterans day speech in a very different direction." That's quiescent.

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I don't know how to unite the country, but I do know how to start. With a question: "who won the election?" Anyone who does not say Joe Biden is un-unitable— either perpetrator or victim in what students of propaganda call the big lie. Against that is the only unity within reach.

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The battle to keep Americans from understanding what went on January to March is going to be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in modern US history. Precisely because so much of it is public, confusion has to be made massive.

The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life

The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions

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The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. My new post. I hope you will read it.

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd - PressThink

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

pressthink.org

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Let's see more of this from newspapers. "We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress. We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy." via @BillKristol

We apologize for endorsing U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, who wants to overturn the election | Editorial

We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress. We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy. Duri…

www.orlandosentinel.com

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5 years

I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more central than "story." Truthtelling, grounding public conversation in fact, verification... listening.

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4 years

Let no one doubt that Donald Trump has made a difference in American life. via @maddow

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8 months

NBC chose a "zero innovations" model for how to conduct and present a Trump interview at this stage in his degradation. Everything was predictable, nothing was surprising, and new host Kristen Welker did nothing to justify going to the well again with another Trump Q & A. 2/

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"We took far too long to call his falsehoods what they often were: lies. And far too long to call his world view what it clearly was: racist. Instead, we danced around — for years — with euphemisms..." @sulliview looks back at four years of Trump coverage.

Perspective | The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved...

He had us in a self-serving tailspin from the start. But the best journalism was invaluable.

www.washingtonpost.com

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With this decision, NBC has rewarded Trump for torpedoing the second debate, created dueling spectacles for voters, and simply looked past the fact that its reporters never got an answer to: when was the president's last negative test before he got COVID?

NBC Faces Blowback for Holding Trump’s Town Hall Opposite Biden’s (Published 2020)

Even journalists inside NBC and MSNBC were taken aback at the network’s decision to air the event opposite an already scheduled ABC forum with Joe Biden, meaning Americans can’t watch both candidates...

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Finally, I have to observe... People who think that confronting Donald Trump more forcefully with facts he cannot deny will produce some kind of accountability must never have lived with a malignant narcissist. It does not work. 15/ END

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Could be significant: CBS is launching a new show as part of its pivot to streaming. It's called "CBS News Confirmed." Devoted to combatting misinformation. "Mission is to identify and fight the spread of false stories, conspiracy theories and bad facts."

CBS News Plans Streaming Overhaul With New ‘Whip-Around’ Program

CBS News will overhaul the programming available on its live-streaming platform, relying heavily on a 'whip-around' format

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Forbes headline.

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The battle to prevent Americans from understanding what he did to minimize the danger in January to March is going to be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in modern US history. The term cover up won't begin to describe it.

Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis

Current and former administration officials blame the president for creating a no-bad-news atmosphere that stifled attempts to combat the outbreak.

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It is believed by many people who follow me that tougher, more confrontational questions — and more determined follow-ups — are the answer to press briefings on the virus that allow Trump to elude accountability. I disagree. It's is one of my least popular conclusions. THREAD 1/

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"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell."

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1 year

A low point for the Washington Post.

Ashley Parker

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I spent four years covering the Trump WH and two years covering the Biden WH. What’s fascinating is that they both lie, albeit in v different ways. Trump team was shameless, whereas Biden team is too cute by half.

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I agree with those calling this a seminal interview moment. All credit to @jonathanvswan for pushing past the moment when things became uncomfortable for McConnell. It happens so rarely in American journalism.

Axios

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. @jonathanvswan asks Mitch McConnell where he draws his moral redlines

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Over the years we've seen many signs that Fox is a propaganda house. The clearest one yet came last night. They cut away from the impeachment hearings while the House managers were making their case. Think about that. Don't tell me it's news, but with a different POV. It's not.

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January 6 was one of the worst attacks on civil order in American history. Have any of these given a briefing and answered questions yet? Capitol Police DC Police FBI Secret Service Homeland Security National Guard Secretary of Defense DOJ Vice President President White House

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Before he will work with any Republicans, Rep. Brad Schneider (D, IL) requires "an affirmative statement that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States and the 2020 election was an honest and fair election." Good standard for TV news too.

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On simple grounds of keeping people informed of what is happening in government, this was one of the worst weeks the political press has had in a long time. Mindless incrementalism, an undeclared ideology favoring "moderates," the politics-as-a-game lens— all outdid themselves.

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White House @PressSec sec said no network except Fox Business was willing to have a White House rep on their Sunday show this week. CBS and CNN said that wasn't true. And Fox Business has no Sunday show.

Stephanie Grisham: Networks refusing White House airtime after good week for Trump - Washington...

UPDATE: Representatives from both CNN's State of the Union and CBS's Face the Nation refuted Grisham's claims that they turned down an appearance from a White House official. A Fox News spokesperson...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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"I was wrong. Now we see: Tuesday night was not the moment he became presidential. I got swept up in the moment." <— Anyone heard that yet?

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NBC's major achievement tonight: passing along to the American people the claim that 85 percent of the people who wear masks have contracted COVID-19. Good job.

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If I'm a White House reporter, my hypothesis is: They think they can still pull a win out of this. The win is, "See? COVID is no big deal. The president had the sniffles and beat it in a few days." Working backwards from a fantasy outcome, they are struggling to find the script.

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2 years

A document of our times. The @PhillyInquirer editorial board says it cannot endorse any candidates in the GOP primary because (this is my paraphrase) they do not live in a shared reality where there can be differences of opinion on a common set of facts.

We wanted to endorse in Republican primaries this year. We can’t. | Editorial

With abortion rights at stake and right-leaning candidates who can't agree on who won the 2020 election, The Inquirer Editorial Board has chosen not to endorse a Republican for senate or governor.

www.inquirer.com

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Someone has to lead CNN to a better place than "the middle," or its miserable equivalents. The central conflict in its reporting of politics has to shift: from Democrats vs. Republicans to the MAGA movement vs. American democracy. This will be Mark Thompson's greatest challenge.

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See? It's not that hard. You don't have to wait until the 14th paragraph to introduce the information that there's no evidence to support an impeachment inquiry. You can even begin there! After all, its newsworthy that the Republicans would attempt it on such thin grounds.

VANITY FAIR

@VanityFair

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Kevin McCarthy is ordering House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden—despite Republicans having uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing by the president.

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You do realize that the White House is trying to catch leakers that it also says do not exist because 'the fake news' makes them up, right?

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