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Trump coverage needs to change and here’s how | Press Watch
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Trump is a con artist and ordinary people are going to get hurt. That’s the all-encompassing story of the next four years.
on Mon, 6AM
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The billionaires are full of bull | Press Watch
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The "lack of trust" in news organizations doesn't stem from bias, it stems from MAGA Republicans turning against reality.
on Dec 19
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How a great nonprofit news organization would cover national politics | Press Watch
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Unlike commercial news organizations, it would be accessible, explanatory, committed to fighting disinformation, and crusading.
on Dec 12
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The commercial news industry is incapable of fulfilling its constitutional duties | Press Watch
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Our most important news organizations operate according to a business model that singularly values affluent customers. And that affects everything they do.
on Dec 11
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Patrick Soon-Shiong’s “button” would be the ruin of the LA Times | Press Watch
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The erratic billionaire evidently wants AI to generate a Trump-friendly version of the news
on Dec 9
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Going off the record with Trump? That’s just kissing his ring. | Press Watch
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There is no sound journalistic reason to go off-the-record with Donald Trump.
on Dec 5
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Searching for the right words to describe Trump’s destructive nominees | Press Watch
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Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard are a wrecking crew.
on Nov 19
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I blame the media | Press Watch
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The American people were insufficiently alarmed and insufficiently informed.
on Nov 8
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What if Trump wins? The media will need to be on a war footing. | Press Watch
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This time around, our newsroom leaders will have no excuse for not being prepared.
on Nov 4
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Are our newsrooms ready for a Category 5 disinformation storm? | Press Watch
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The mainstream media must rise to the challenge and quickly dispel election-related disinformation, because our democracy is at stake.
on Nov 1
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The Washington Post needs its independence from Jeff Bezos | Press Watch
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He should turn it over to a nonprofit. And he needs to do it soon.
on Oct 29
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Betrayed Washington Post readers leave their parting thoughts in 140,000 comments | Press Watch
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"Thanks, Bezos, for caving in to fascism — in advance" -- and other comments from readers leaving the Post on account of Jeff Bezos's action.
on Oct 29
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No more equivocating about Trump's dangerous mental decline. The nation needs to know.
on Oct 24
From presswatchers.org
If Trump wins, blame the New York Times | Press Watch
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America’s paper of record refuses to sound the alarm about the threat Trump poses to democracy
on Oct 22
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MAGA is a virus and the press should be the vaccine | Press Watch
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Journalist should do everything possible to stop its spread, fight it, cure it, and prevent it from recurring.
on Oct 17
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New York Times opens the media floodgates on stories about Trump’s mental unfitness | Press Watch
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Despite its shortcomings, the article’s publication still marks a red-letter day for journalism.
on Oct 8
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Job numbers are through the roof. Where are all the interviews with new workers? | Press Watch
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News coverage of official reports – like the wildly positive jobs report issued Friday morning – lacks human faces.
on Oct 5
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What if the media has the election all wrong? | Press Watch
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What if Kamala Harris is leaving Trump in the dust, while the media stubbornly sticks to the safer narrative that it’s a horserace going down to the wire?
on Sep 27
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Vance’s racist attacks are just 'rabble-rousing' to the New York Times | Press Watch
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The Times normalizes hurling invective at a vulnerable community to fire up a hateful and bigoted base as just 'combative conservatism'
on Sep 20
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We deserve to know Kamala Harris better. Here’s how. | Press Watch
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Questions the press should ask to give the public a better sense of how her mind works.
on Sep 18
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The phrase you’re looking for is "stochastic terrorism" | Press Watch
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Calling certain forms of violent rhetoric stochastic terrorism is essential to holding the perpetrators accountable for the tragic consequences.
on Sep 14
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Trump’s mental capacity is now topic one | Press Watch
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Is he competent to be president? That’s a question journalists should be asking, prominently and relentlessly, until Election Day.
on Sep 13
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'Fact-checking' does a (hopefully fatal) face plant | Press Watch
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Fact Checking
on Sep 7
From presswatchers.org
3 ways the mainstream media can redeem itself before Election Day | Press Watch
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Judge both parties by the same standards, and let the chips fall where they may.
on Sep 3
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Political reporters should report honestly that Trump’s campaign is based on lies | Press Watch
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When one of the two parties is being so deceitful, it’s not right for journalists to treat them alike
on Aug 9
From presswatchers.org
Reporters who have covered Walz give him generally high marks for responsiveness | Press Watch
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Reporters who have covered Walz give him generally high marks for responsiveness
on Aug 6
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The media is complicit in spreading Trump’s racist calumnies | Press Watch
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News reports repeated what he said, often casting the remarks as controversial, but leaving it to the reader or viewer to understand why.
on Aug 1
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Next time Trump says there won’t be a need to vote in 2028, the media should be ready | Press Watch
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If he repeats it without any kind of disclaimer then this time it’s not just safe, it’s obligatory for the press corps to conclude that he means it.
on Jul 30
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How to investigate Kamala Harris without repeating the mistakes of 2016 | Press Watch
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The key is to keep the coverage in proportion and hold Trump to the same standards
on Jul 27
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Don’t treat Trump like he has no agency | Press Watch
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The New York Times casts Trump’s racist and misogynistic response to Kamala Harris as inevitable, rather than as a deliberate choice on his part
on Jul 24
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Trump was winning. Now maybe he’s not. That's the news. | Press Watch
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The mainstream press misses the biggest news: Democracy is no longer doomed.
on Jul 22
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The political media’s fantasy of an “unified” America defies reality | Press Watch
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For a moment there, we were all relieved. We had that in common. But that's a far cry from political unity.
on Jul 19
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CNN fails the nation | Press Watch
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Biden’s performance was inept. But Trump’s incessant lying would have been the other major takeaway from the debate if the moderators had done their jobs.
on Jun 28
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CNN’s facts-optional debate moderation is a gift to the liar | Press Watch
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By declaring that there will little or no live fact-checking, CNN is announcing that it doesn’t give a damn about the difference between truth and lies.
on Jun 25
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Publishers are not supposed to interfere with their newsrooms’ coverage of issues in which they have a personal conflict of interest. Lewis crossed the line.
on Jun 9
From presswatchers.org
Beware the Tory takeover of the Washington Post | Press Watch
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Change is coming to the Post, which might not be entirely a bad thing, although it probably will.
on Jun 5
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‘Trump supporters don’t read the news’ is no excuse for craven political coverage | Press Watch
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The elite media has created a permission structure for low-information voters to throw up their hands and say “whatever”.
on May 29
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Trump choosing not to testify in his own defense should be a banner headline | Press Watch
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His refusal to take the stand is so outrageously hypocritical that even those who have not been paying attention need to take notice.
on May 21
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There are so many issues the public is terribly misinformed about that solid reporting could clear up.
on May 16
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Joe Kahn, after two years in charge of the New York Times newsroom, has learned nothing.
on May 7
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Journalists are blaming the wrong people for violence at college protests | Press Watch
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The protests aren't violent until the cops (or the counter-protesters) arrive
on May 3
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“I think, in your hearts, you know what’s at stake,” Biden says. I think he's right.
on Apr 29
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The media should be celebrating college protesters instead of demonizing them | Press Watch
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Too many reporters have embraced the toxic assumption that any anti-Gaza-war protest is inherently antisemitic.
on Apr 23
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An interview with a newsroom leader who speaks the truth about Donald Trump | Press Watch
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I talk to Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn about his clarion call against dishonest both-sidesing in political journalism.
on Apr 19
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Every report on Trump’s trial requires this basic explanation of the charges | Press Watch
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Reporters use too much shorthand to describe the charges and too casually overuse the term “allegation” when much of what happened is not in question.
on Apr 16
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Campaign Coverage Almost everybody in the mainstream media gave Trump credit for saying something he didn’t actually say, then refused to reconsider
on Apr 9
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The Washington press corps doesn’t have a freaking clue | Press Watch
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Campaign Coverage The New York Times's new political newsletter author thinks the coming election will be fun to cover!
on Apr 4
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The mainstream American political media remains incapable of simply and plainly explaining Trump's vile rhetoric.
on Mar 19
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It’s not just our democracy at stake, it’s our freedom | Press Watch
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Mainstream political journalists aren’t fully grasping the magnitude of the tipping point that a victory by Trump and the movement he leads would entail.
on Mar 15
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Sulzberger's two rules: Don't be alarmist and don't make the partisans happy.
on Mar 8