Fewer press briefings equals a dumber White House
The White House press corps has fumed the air with incense and prayers, beseeching the gods of journalism to increase the number of Sarah Sanders’ appearances in the James S. Brady Briefing Room. Once...
View ArticleThe incredible shrinking Fox News
The world-sprawling media empire Rupert Murdoch built on the soft foundation of two properties he inherited 66 years ago — the Adelaide News and a radio station in a New South Wales mining town — has...
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Julian Assange might have already won
Has WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange already won his case? British police arrested him on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been living in external exile since 2012. The arrest...
View ArticleWhy New Zealand’s press just put on blinders for its biggest story
New Zealanders needn’t worry about their government censoring the press. On Wednesday, five of the country’s major news outlets proved only too happy to censor themselves. Representatives of Radio New...
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Trump’s fake fight against real news
U.S. President Donald Trump must spend hours and hours of his executive time thinking up new ways to tease and taunt the press. He has stirred hatred for reporters by calling them the “enemy of the...
View ArticleWhy YouTube should stay weird
YouTube can only blame itself for finding itself in a muddy ditch, flipped over, wheels spinning. As Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen tells us in his tidy history of Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube...
View ArticleKim Darroch’s 6 Ways to manipulate Donald Trump
Kim Darroch, until very recently the British ambassador to the United States, was forced to resign Wednesday for leveling with his bosses about U.S. President Donald Trump. In a series of confidential...
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How Trump changed after Charlottesville
Nobody understands the attention economy better than President Donald Trump. Whenever he slips from his coveted position as Topic A in the news, or whenever the news angle of the latest reports...
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Why Trump will survive even this
Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because — as we’ve seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency — he’s too good at deflecting...
View ArticleHow to trick Trump into telling the truth
As Donald Trump approached the 1,000th day of his presidency last week, the Washington Post fact-checking team commemorated the milestone by noting that he had made 13,435 false or misleading...
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