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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
@froomkin
Editor of Press Watch (https://t.co/DyC5q3subU) ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancing. I afflict comfortable journalists. @froomkin.bsky.social
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Nov 16, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
I have some video highlights from yesterday's marvelous #CJDDemocracySummit that I'd like to share with you. I think they will be worth your time. I am most interested in how the journalism industry is failing to raise the alarm about white Christian authoritarianism. 1/X Spend 4 minutes with @nhannahjones on the need to "grapple with how our profession has failed, sometimes with intention, sometimes because of blind spots, and sometimes through a misperception of our role... to stand for a multiracial democracy": 2/X
Sep 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The CNN segment on Hunter Biden's laptop was not as grotesque as the breathless promos. It was boring, voyeuristic piddle based on @nymag's six-month nothinburger. Here it is:
Jun 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Solid, depressing profile of NYT's incoming editor, Joe Kahn, by WaPo's @jeremymbarr, confirming that nothing's gonna change over there. 1/ Image This is by far the best paragraph tho. 2/ Image
Jan 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The paragraphs gaming out GOP obstruction didn't make it into the final version, but NYT's @jonathanweisman is still itching for a fight and leads by quoting McConnell at face value. nytimes.com/2022/01/27/us/… 1/x @jonathanweisman Who else headlined McConnell's lying smarm as if it were sincere and significant? Breitbart, Townhall, Newsmax, Washington Times, New York Post, the Hill and Axios. 2/x
Mar 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Amazing to hear nothing remotely like a good or realistic idea from these folks.

Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana says: Dems should "do what they should’ve done in the first place and that’s not to try to fix something that wasn’t broken and go back to what is working."
1/ Cruz says "it is the direct consequence of policy decisions by the Biden administration" including "to stop building the wall."
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Aug 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Let's make this a teachable moment!

Social Security isn't just a retirement program, though it's a great one. It's a complex social program. It’s arguably the most successful government program of any government, of all time. /1 Social Security involves massive subsidies from the next generation of retirees to this one, from single workers to married couples, from two-earner couples to one-earner couples, from high-income earners to low.. /2
May 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why do political reporters say Trump is “struggling” to do something when he’s actually not even trying? They do it all the time. See, I.e.: “The administration is struggling to expand the scale of testing to what experts say is necessary to reopen businesses safely...” Another hilariously inapt clause: “White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also backed the administration’s response...”
Apr 11, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Julian #Assange has been charged with conspiracy to commit journalism. The free press has not ducked a bullet here; it’s taken one to the chest. 1/7 Here are the “manners and means of the conspiracy" from the indictment. There are only four of them. 2/7
Jul 17, 2018 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday was a historic day, for all the wrong reasons. But don't bother saving the front page of the NYT, WaPo or WSJ. Their main headlines didn't get close to telling the real story. Several regional papers -- especially in blue states (!) -- didn't hold back. See below. WaPo front page didn't come close to conveying the gravity of the situation
Jun 22, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
10 paragraphs of pure stenography from the NYT on Trump’s cynical use of “angel families” to calumnize the media and demonize immigrants as criminals. Then the tiniest bit of context. This is NOT NORMAL, NYT, please stop treating it that way! nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/… By contrast, this excellent NYT story makes it very clear that Trump has no idea what he’s doing, which he doesn’t nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/…
Jun 3, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The @nytimes knows full well that Trump is being deceptive and misleading in his suggestion that his lawyers' letter was leaked by Mueller.
Consider that this unsourced and yet in no way qualified paragraph is the Times clearly indicating that they were told things directly by Trump's lawyers, but only on condition that then not attribute it to anyone at all.
hyp.is/c2IuomdOEeimsY…
May 30, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Dana @Milbank writes that "Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman." wapo.st/2ITj02x?tid=ss… 1/5 Similarly, @ddale8 has noted that while Trump is a serial liar, sometimes he's just confused or ignorant. 2/5
Jan 24, 2018 • 27 tweets • 2 min read
Help me improve my list of modern elite political journalism's most self-defeating conventions. Reply here or by email: By and large: 1.Letting politicians say things you know aren't true is part of the job