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Managing Editor @GIJN. Army veteran. @columbiajourn grad. Bylines: @Mediaite, @FAIRMediaWatch, @thenation, @TPM. Tweets my own. Also: @reedfrich.bsky.social
Nov 16, 2017 42 tweets 14 min read
On the corporate press's contorted, pathological refusals to simply & directly call out politicians for "lying." My latest for @FAIRmediawatch.
fair.org/home/the-patho… Case in point: The day of the Mueller indictments, WH @PressSec offered up the boldface lie that they nothing to do with the Trump campaign. (She also claimed they showed Russian collusion by Clinton.)