Since this is an especially good day for calling out the names of those to blame, here are a few more, from the leadership of Fox News: Rupert Murdoch. Lachlan Murdoch. Suzanne Scott ... My column, on the pro-Trump media that brought us to this hellscape washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
With a very special shoutout to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, via @BGrueskin and @monacharen
And a positive one to @thebuffalonews@bobmccarthybn: 'What have they wrought? People like Jul Thompson, a right-wing activist who boarded one of the two buses to DC, & later bragged to the hometown paper about being “absolutely justified” in egging on those who scaled the wall'
Where on earth, I wonder — on what popular cable network — could so many people have gotten the idea, day after day, that the election was stolen and their values were being systematically denied?
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As they evacuated, Congressional aides grabbed the boxes, rescuing them from possible harm or vandalism.
"If our capable floor staff hadn't grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob," Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tweeted.
Last week, I asked you to point out some outstanding local journalism of 2020. I mention a few of so many great examples here, as I assess the local-news situation ,at the end of a brutal year, in my new column: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
I saw so much impressive work Thanks to all who made suggestions and sent links. I’m grateful and in awe of what local journalists have accomplished in this hellscape of a year. And grateful for those working to save and/or reinvent it. 🙏
Following an internal investigation, a substantial editors note has been published, acknowledging that segments of ‘Caliphate’ podcast did not meet NYT standards. nytimes.com/2018/09/20/pod…
Shehroze Chaudhry, the podcast-series’ central character, was not a terrorist, as he presented himself, but “a fabulist,” the story concludes as it explores how NYT was duped.
Election Day will be the media’s D-Day. The skill we need most is the one we’ve never quite mastered. .... My new column here (as Trump reportedly plans to declare victory if he’s ‘ahead’) washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
And as @jayrosen_nyu noted earlier, it’s going to be a very good time to serve the truth sandwich.
Read & weep: We knew the coronavirus downturn was bad for local newspapers but here’s the numbers. From an already disastrous level in 2019’s second quarter to same in 2020, ad revenue down (median) 42 percent. Absolutely brutal and devastating.
And yet these local papers have done essential reporting in the virus for their regions. It is a cruel paradox.