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Oui, journalists should report on hacked emails
For journalists, binge-publishing from hacked computers accounts resembles gorging on bargain seafood. The first tasty helpings are so satisfying that many reporters donât notice a sick feeling...
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Trump doesn’t want to be president
Trump doesnât really want to be president. If he did, heâd nominate candidates to the 404 important but vacant administration jobs and get on with the job of governance. He doesnât seem to want...
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Donald Trump gets lift from media wounds
The scandal that has yet to find a name sailed into the doldrums early this week. The lack of new news about Russia interference in the election and the financial gymnastics of Trumpâs advisers was...
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If Donald Trump Jr. sinks, who goes down with him?
WASHINGTON â Donald J. Trump Jr. tied an implicating email chain around his throat this week and jumped off the deep end of the pier. Heâs not dead yet. Nor has a suicide note been found. But his...
View ArticleWhy I’m not mad at the Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker
Even at the happiest newspapers, the job of top editor demands the skills of a lion tamer. All those clashing newsroom egos to referee, endless publisher temper-tantrums to douse, fickle readers to...
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Donald Trump leveled Twitter yesterday with a 100-megaton stink bomb, asserting without a scrap of evidence that if millions of illegal ballots were deducted from the totals, he would have won the...
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Propaganda has a way of making the soberest and most responsible elements in our culture go all wiggy. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius filed a fretful column this week based on his interview...
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Pravda on the checkout line
The 2016 campaign hadn’t even begun when America’s supermarket tabloids picked their guy. “New Poll: Donald Trump’s The One!” the National Enquirer breathlessly announced in February 2015, long before...
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Trump the bully
Writers have fracked the literary canon in search of a character who best resembles Donald Trump. Is he Richard III? Nah, Richard III was witty and Trump isn’t. Is he Willie Stark, the protagonist from...
View ArticleTime to put Rupert Murdoch on notice
When Rupert Murdoch bid on the Wall Street Journal in 2007, his critics unleashed their stores of rhetorical ammo. Murdoch, they hollered, was an apologist for the Chinese regime. He was a political...
View ArticleOui, journalists should report on hacked emails
For journalists, binge-publishing from hacked computers accounts resembles gorging on bargain seafood. The first tasty helpings are so satisfying that many reporters don’t notice a sick feeling rising...
View ArticleTrump doesn’t want to be president
Trump doesn’t really want to be president. If he did, he’d nominate candidates to the 404 important but vacant administration jobs and get on with the job of governance. He doesn’t seem to want to be...
View ArticleDonald Trump gets lift from media wounds
The scandal that has yet to find a name sailed into the doldrums early this week. The lack of new news about Russia interference in the election and the financial gymnastics of Trump’s advisers was...
View ArticleIf Donald Trump Jr. sinks, who goes down with him?
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump Jr. tied an implicating email chain around his throat this week and jumped off the deep end of the pier. He’s not dead yet. Nor has a suicide note been found. But his...
View ArticleWhy I’m not mad at the Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker
Even at the happiest newspapers, the job of top editor demands the skills of a lion tamer. All those clashing newsroom egos to referee, endless publisher temper-tantrums to douse, fickle readers to...
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Donald Jr. and WikiLeaks talk dirty
If we’ve learned anything from months of scandal reporting, the Russians set their sights on two types of people wandering the halls of Trump Tower. There were the self-promoters like Michael Flynn and...
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Bannon puts Jared through the grinder
Former Trump chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon milled his former Oval Office colleague Jared Kushner into a bloody chunk of battle sausage this week and smeared him across the shiny pages of Vanity...
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Who’s winning Trump’s war with the press?
The guy who said, “Never quarrel with a man who buys his ink by the barrel,” didn’t anticipate Donald Trump. Since becoming president, Trump has argued the news media to a stalemate thanks to the power...
View ArticleTrump Got Wolffed
U.S. President Donald Trump could have saved himself a lot of grief if he — or one of his people — had read Michael Wolff’s 2008 book, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert...
View ArticleTrump blistered by Bannon’s inside job
As cunning as a raccoon, author Michael Wolff walked in the front door of the White House early last year and returned with a book, “Fire and Fury,” that cements Donald Trump’s image as a shallow,...
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