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An article in the April 4 Süddeutsche Zeitung (byline Michaela Haas) talks about how the American press has reported on Donald Trump. It is truly damning. Here are a few choice excerpts. When Trump said he would pull out of NATO if elected president,...
by mcornelison
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 04:21 AM PDT
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“We were filming in a safe place, I was wearing my flak jacket and my helmet — even the car I was in had a ‘PRESS’ and ‘TV’ sign marked on it. It was clear that I was a civilian and a journalist. We were targeted,” he told CNN. Those are the words of...
by Munchausen
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM PDT
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When Trump holds his inane hateful press conferences outside the courthouse in New York when his trial begins Monday, I want the press to ask a single important question after he says the trial is all a witch hunt. That question is: ‘Will Melania be...
by ComputerGeek
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 05:24 AM PDT
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What has happened to this country to put us where we are? Clown world, clown car, spineless, greedy stupid people. These are not only the stupid 50 year old living in the basement but people in power. It is shameful and sickening we are watching our...
by Vetwife
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 05:06 PM PST
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On Wednesday, Oklahoma state Sen. Nathan Dahm has proposed a bill that would require journalists to submit to drug tests, take courses in being “propaganda-free,” and get a license from the state. According to Dahm’s Senate Bill 1837, called the Common...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM PST
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According to Jodie Ginsberg, President of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international advocacy group for reporters, the Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous conflict for journalists since the group began keeping records 30 years ago. CPJ...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 12:56 PM PST
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World’s richest “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is trying to suppress the free speech of Media Matters for America because it reported on a series of facts on Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Those facts have proven financially...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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A central Kansas police chief was not only on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper, experts said, but it may have been a criminal violation of civil rights, a former federal prosecutor added, saying: “I'd probably have...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 10:09 AM PDT
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Donald Trump called the press the “enemy of the people.” In fact, this historically corrupt president, with the assistance of the Republican Party, was simply laying the groundwork for the tidal wave of lies that would follow and continue to this day....
by RickElia
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on Fri Aug 11, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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Last week’s holiday weekend gave Louise and me an opportunity to take a week off to visit a few friends and take a break from American politics. Instead, we got a splash of cold water in the face; it’s an amazing story. We started our trip near...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 08:04 AM PDT
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With all the drama among the chattering classes, the punditocracy, the Very Serious People, who are all dithering about the Constitutional Crisis if Biden acts to preclude a debt ceiling default because Republicans refuse to raise it without massive...
by xaxnar
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Today is World Press Freedom Day as designated by the United Nations. A major global conference was held at the UN in New York to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this declaration, and a separate event was organized by The Washington Post in...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 02:20 PM PDT
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Once again Thomas B. Edsall has put together a round-up of experts who are seriously worried about where the Republican Party is taking America. The title is a bit off:
by xaxnar
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on Wed Apr 19, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
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Oh, how I miss the days when Barack Obama wearing a tan suit could send the pundits into a multi-day tizzy. Those were simpler times. You didn't have to worry about empty-headed presidents ...
by Hunter
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 02:50 PM PST
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One of the ironies of the Republican Party’s success with gerrymandering and its lack of meaningful policy solutions is that it has allowed its far-right wing to grab a solid chokehold over the rest of the party. There was a time when more politically...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 14, 2023 at 03:17 PM PST
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Apart from the hefty gain of 517,000 jobs added to the economy in January, there was another surprise buried deep in the report the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last Friday. → www.bls.gov/... Every year, when the Bureau releases the jobs numbers...
by Mark Lippman
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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We had some heady days there as C-SPAN's viewers got to see the whole sordid process of Republican House Speaker-for-Now Kevin McCarthy selling off his every limb and organ in order to achieve his childhood dream of being a disembodied head beholden to...
by Hunter
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on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 10:44 AM PST
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The Dangers of Not Calling Fascism by Its Name In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the dangers of "fascism" in the United States. But there's one group of people who are still refusing to acknowledge the very real threat that...
by Mark Rose The Intolerant Lefty
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on Fri Nov 04, 2022 at 06:08 AM PDT
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Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared at a rally together in Youngstown, Ohio, Friday. While hundreds of supporters attended the event, the press was largely kept out amid an outrageous list of rules for...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 01:23 PM PDT
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In all of our reporting on Gov. Ron DeSantis, one thing has remained the status quo, and that’s his penchant for fascist rule. From his book banning to his “Don’t Say Gay” bill to the ban on teaching Black American history—under the guise of protecting...
by Rebekah Sager
137 comments
on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 11:21 AM PDT
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