The Trump era’s pervasive culture of lying, amplified by MAGA media, made it ‘impossible’ for Senate Republicans to vote their underdeveloped consciences. My column washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
In the column, I recall this moment, just a few months ago:
🙏 @GlennKesslerWP@ddale8 and all the others who did their best against the onslaught. We owe you
BUT: @pbump's analysis today: 'Not only did Trump lose and ridiculously claim he hadn’t, but he is now a twice-impeached president whose actions met with unexpected condemnation from his own party, in a moment when polarization runs deep enough to ensure he would be acquitted.'
Fox News is a hazard to our democracy, and getting more extreme. It’s time to take the fight to the Murdochs. Here’s how. ... My column washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
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'
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.