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Monday was genuinely historic. For the first time since the nation was founded, a jury sat down to hear criminal charges against a man who once served as the nation’s highest executive. Despite months in which pundits had dismissed this case as the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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A French native enlightened us on the humane French healthcare system. Joy-Ann Reid provides a new necessary type of journalism. A conservative caller agrees a single-payer system is best after a civil conversation. New journalism with Joy-Ann Reid...
by Egberto Willies
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 01:02 PM PDT
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— — Just because something is easy to say, doesn’t mean that short-hand “label” is the best way to describe it. Such, I contend, is the case concerning the Media’s favorite label for the upcoming Trump Trial: The Hush Money Case I think this short-hand...
by jamess
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 01:25 PM PDT
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In this interview with old-style journalist Jonathan Allen, Joy-Ann Reid uses new-style journalism to ensure that we are not left with Trump’s lies. Joy-Ann Reid jettisons old-style journalism. Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video —...
by Egberto Willies
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 08:04 PM PDT
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This was the week when the corporate media decided to mansplain �Donald Trump to women and anyone else who might care about their reproductive rights.
“Don’t worry your pretty little heads ...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 06:15 AM PDT
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There’s an odd story in The Independent about a forthcoming book by Donald McNeil, a former NYT reporter who was dismissed in 2020 for repeating racist slurs and stereotypes in front of teenagers. He apparently was on the infectious diseases beat for a...
by AChris
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 08:40 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 09:32 PM PDT
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Just three days after her first on-air appearance, NBCUniversal announced that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel “will not be an NBC News contributor.”
It’s a rare ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I do not listen to BBC news anymore. It is almost impossible to listen Sky News as well, but periodically they let a tiny amount of criticism of this government and its policies to sneak in. So, when the government passes something which is in...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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It’s always a little shock to every avid football boy growing up in America that the complete enterprise is of course nothing but an entertainment show. There are youth leagues, high schools build facilities, universities create a professional...
by paradox
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 05:02 AM PDT
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I almost love this story . Almost. Published by the Washington Post on Monday, the article is the latest in a long, noble tradition of "political journalist goes to random grocery store or diner to ...
by Hunter
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM PDT
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I am going to do something terrible. �I am going to talk about a movie I have not seen, based only on what the director has said and one review that stood out to me. �In my defense, I am not talking ...
by angryea
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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by RubenBolling
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 04:50 AM PDT
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Introduction to my First Proper Diary First time diary writer (generic ideological introduction aside), long-time DKos reader here! Fair warning I am a verbose writer who likes run-on sentences and parenthetical statements and in this diary I wound up...
by AnOceanOfNotions
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 04:00 AM PDT
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*The Republican party really does stand for freedom! Just be aware that they define freedom very differently than you and I do. When the ruling class gets more freedom, the rest of us get less freedom. And if we lose so much freedom that the USA...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:44 PM PDT
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41 years ago today Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time. Uncle Walter saw us through from World War II to the Hostage Crisis. At the end he had this to say:
This is my last broadcast as ...
by jck
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 05:30 PM PST
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Google has created a new suite of AI tools—tools that have reportedly not yet been released to the public, but that are being provided to news outlets as part of the Google News Initiative. According to Adweek, small news outlets are being offered...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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WaPo — Leaders in Congress strike deal to delay government shutdown deadlines Congressional leaders agreed to a funding deal Wednesday that would prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend, extending the expiration dates for federal finances...
by jeremybloom
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 08:01 PM PST
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First, I just want to thank all those who post articles here. I’ve learned a lot and gotten a lot of pleasure from the learning here. Now, the reason for my blog. I watch a lot of TV news (mostly MSNBC, but also others from time to time), and what...
by Obsidia
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 09:58 AM PST
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Is CBS protecting sources or its exposure to something more risky relative to her work at Fox News. Catherine Herridge is widely respected as a journalist, and ethically, she's totally above-board. Utterly outrageous that CBS not only fired her, but...
by annieli
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 07:24 PM PST
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