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Six rules for the media on how to cover the 2020 election
Posted on January 22, 2019 Leave a Comment
With the entrance of multiple Democrats into the 2020 presidential contest, and with several others either waiting in the wings or still pondering, the nation’s political reporters have a chance to do a better job than they did in 2016. The question is: Will they? Other journalists are offering advice and warnings. Many acknowledge that […]
Sexist double standard arrives early in 2020 race
Posted on January 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? It’s 22 months until the next presidential election, and already one potential Democratic female candidate is being trashed while one Republican male who’s not even a candidate is being treated like an elder statesman who might challenge Donald Trump. On the last day of 2018, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth […]
We don’t need an anonymous op-ed to tell us Trump is nuts
Posted on September 6, 2018 Leave a Comment
The political world is agog, agape, and aghast about the anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times trashing Donald Trump. The Times essay, described as being written by “a senior official in the Trump administration,” delivers the news of a “resistance” within the White House itself, trying to protect the country from the worst […]
Hey, media: Real news doesn’t always start with Trump tweets
Posted on June 5, 2018 Leave a Comment
The nation’s media made a collective decision after the 2016 election on how to cover Donald Trump’s tweets. Too bad it was the wrong decision. Yes, he’s the president, and the media are obliged to cover what he says and does. They are not, however, obliged to regurgitate in full the growing number of lies […]
The privilege of whining about white male privilege
Posted on April 24, 2018 1 Comment
You’d think we wouldn’t need to say this out loud in 2018, but obviously, we do: White men who are miffed that someone else besides them is in charge need to get over it. Because any slight that any of them has ever felt pales in comparison with what the rest of us have put […]
Trump’s ‘fake news’ awards put him in dictator territory (UPDATE)
Posted on January 15, 2018 Leave a Comment
The undisputed king of fake news has been bragging about holding his own “awards” show: Giving out “THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR.” Too bad a real group beat him to it. Now Donald Trump has been given a new title of his own in one of the “Press Oppressor” categories […]
6 reasons for media’s obsession with Trump voters
Posted on January 1, 2018 1 Comment
Ever since the 2016 presidential campaign and election, some media outlet somewhere in America is publishing, posting, printing, or airing an interview with a Donald Trump supporter. It could be an NPR host calling one of the many Trump voters they must have on speed dial (Googling “NPR Trump voters” gives you story after story […]
Doug Jones’ Alabama Senate victory: Black voters, honesty, and shoe-leather campaigning
Posted on December 13, 2017 1 Comment
When you’re on the winning side in an election, you’re happy. If your candidate lost, you’re casting around for someone to blame. Media love to issue morning-after political analyses, assigning winners and losers. Let’s see if we can’t do the same. Winners Doug Jones. Obviously, the victor in the contest belongs at the top of […]
We need more women in power. In media, government, entertainment…
Posted on December 4, 2017 Leave a Comment
It’s not about sex. It’s all about power. Matt Lauer is out at The Today Show after what NBC called a “review” of sexual misconduct at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. His actions were a “clear violation of our company’s standards,” says an NBC story. Details about Lauer’s behavior — the alleged sexual assault of a […]
Donna Brazile’s 2016 claims are political catnip for media
Posted on November 5, 2017 1 Comment
Donna Brazile, the head of the Democratic National Committee in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign, is making blockbuster charges in her new book that are causing the political media world to gasp. Brazile’s book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, is […]
