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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
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 08:04 AM PDT
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�Journalism initiatives in New York City and Philadelphia offer solutions to gun violence and equip formerly incarcerated people with skills to report their own stories.
This article was ...
by Tamar Sarai Davis
on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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In a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Ben Collins, a senior reporter with NBC News, minced no words about the impact online comments against LGBTQ Americans have been having. The latest example is the shooting deaths of five and the injuries...
by Rebekah Sager
on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 09:18 AM PST
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On Wednesday, hidden under the fog of traditional media outlets worrying about Democratic candidate John Fetterman’s post-stroke recovery, while accepting Mehmet Oz’s career of quackery, President Biden’s Department of Justice made a very important...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 11:42 AM PDT
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The world mourned when Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned Palestinian journalist, died on Wednesday. Headlines across the globe highlighted her accomplishments and work as a “journalist for the people.” Despite the widespread coverage, many media outlets...
by Aysha Qamar
on Fri May 13, 2022 at 01:43 PM PDT
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For many people who came of age watching the evening news and reading the morning newspaper ...
by nopermissionneeded1
on Wed Jan 26, 2022 at 04:46 AM PST
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It is easy to blame Republican politicians, Right-Wingers, and Evangelicals for COVID vaccine resistance. It is time to assign blame to reporters who lack critical thinking skills. Blame the reporters too See full episodes here. Listening to the White...
by Egberto Willies
on Wed Jul 28, 2021 at 11:22 AM PDT
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Joe Biden made the necessary joke that proves the stupidity of the reporter's question as he schooled them all on foreign policy.
Biden scolds reporter
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by Egberto Willies
on Thu Jun 17, 2021 at 03:00 AM PDT
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And we need to keep asking. Because while in so many ways Trump is a dismal failure, he’s a black belt at deflecting questions — break into the middle of the question, deny the premise, answer what wasn’t asked, flat-out lie, go on the attack, or just...
by Grouser
on Thu Apr 16, 2020 at 03:07 PM PDT
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Let me state before going any further that I am no medical expert. But like many us, I can read and reason fairly well. Widespread testing of well people for Coronavirus19, in addition to those who are sick, is critically important as it relates to any...
by psychusa
on Thu Apr 02, 2020 at 07:18 AM PDT
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Donnie likes to separate himself from the crowd by Trump-eting that he’s better than anybody at ___, knows more than anybody about ___, the one and only who can ___, best, most, yadda, yadda, yadda. In fact I previously posted here a mind-explodingly...
by Grouser
on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 11:51 AM PDT
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“Let reporters roam free!” What an amazing quote from tweet by Donald Trump, the guy who calls the American press, “The enemy of the people.” The tweet was in support of the protests that have erupted in Iran following acknowledgement that it was their...
by JohnBAlexander
on Sun Jan 12, 2020 at 05:38 PM PST
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Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been stripped away by Donald Trump's team after a dust-up...
by Eric Boehlert
on Thu Sep 05, 2019 at 09:33 AM PDT
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The United States is dropping on an international ranking of freedom of the press, with Reporters Without Borders citing threats to journalists as a key problem. The U.S. fell three spots to number 48 out of 180, a move that took the nation from...
by Laura Clawson
on Fri Apr 19, 2019 at 01:18 PM PDT
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An increasingly cornered Trump, beset on many fronts, lashed out in frustration this week, often to his own detriment.
Trump Confirmed His Intent to Shut Down the Government If He Does Not Get His Wall
On Monday, the U.S. Treasury announced...
by bmethven
on Sat Aug 04, 2018 at 05:09 PM PDT
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I don’t know, when I grew up my momma always told me that if I couldn’t say something nice about someone don’t say anything at all. So far that has kept me from saying anything about our President.
Since the 2016 elections I’ve tried to tell myself...
by RDex
on Thu May 10, 2018 at 04:44 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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Freedom of the press is an essential, load-bearing thread in the American fabric, but under Donald Trump, it’s in ever-increasing danger. Reporters Without Borders released its annual freedom of the press rankings today, and these United States...
by Jessica Sutherland
on Wed Apr 25, 2018 at 10:43 AM PDT
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I’ve been amazed, in the last thirty-six hours or so, at the breathless coverage I’ve seen of the latest strikes on Syria. It’s driving me nuts that every time the media gets hold of footage of a missile being fired from a ship, they suspend all...
by JCHallman
on Sun Apr 15, 2018 at 07:08 AM PDT
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The biggest problem with Sinclair requiring their affiliates to recite propaganda is not the actual propaganda itself — it’s that it’s not clearly identified as political advertising. Here’s what should happen — local management runs a disclaimer...
by westladem
on Sun Apr 08, 2018 at 02:33 PM PDT
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This article from Vox very clearly elucidates what I (and I suspect many others here on this site) have thought about the news coverage in this last election. Well worth a read even if you don't support Hillary because as it points out, this is...
by HiVoter
on Fri Sep 15, 2017 at 12:13 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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