Back in December of 2016, I attended a panel at the University of Michigan called Covering Trump: The Presidency and The Press in Turbulent Times. In retrospect, the conversation between the journalists on the panel that evening, who represented news entities like the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post, was quaint. […]
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Now this is how you interview a member of the most corrupt administration in U.S. history
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged All Things Considered, conspiracy theories, Dan Froomkin, diplomacy, future of journalism, journalism, Marie Yovanovitch, Mary Louise Kelly, Mike Pompeo, New York Times, Nicholas Burns, NPR, post-fact, Press Watch, Secretary of State, the future of journalism 24 Comments
CNN hires Sarah Isgur, a Republican operative who once swore loyalty to Donald Trump, to oversee coverage of the 2020 campaign
Today it was announced that CNN hired Sarah Isgur, a Republican operative with absolutely no journalistic experience, to serve as political editor in charge of the network’s 2020 election coverage. If Isgur’s name sounds familiar, it might be from the Washington Post story in March of 2018 about how, only after she “kowtowed to Trump,” […]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, authoritarianism, Clinton News Network, CNN, Corey Lewandowski, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, freedom of the press, Jeff Sessions, Jeffrey Lord, loyalty, Media Matters, Michael Caputo, Mitt Romney, Sarah Isgur, slippery slope, Ted Cruz, Vladimir Putin 42 Comments
I know that absolutely nothing will change, but I do take some pleasure in seeing the White House Press Corps stand up to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and call her a liar to her face
When we first found out about that secret July 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives, Donald Trump Jr., as you may recall, came forward with a ridiculous explanation. In a letter written to the New York Times, Donald Trump’s eldest son said that the two parties had met not to […]