Bob Woodward Is Right: The Press Is 'Emotionally Unhinged' About Trump
The legendary newsman calls for more reporting rather than more outrage or puffery.
The legendary newsman calls for more reporting rather than more outrage or puffery.
So far, the world is kind of listening. Q&A with the co-host of The Fifth Column and co-founder of Freethink Media.
Journalists, like other Americans, will have an easier time only when the struggle for control of government stops mattering so much.
Trump vs. the media-good for Trump, and good for the media.
Some conservatives are calling it a political stunt cooked up by Democrats. Democrats blame Trump's rhetoric. Trump blames the media.
No, Beto O'Rourke isn't "shaking up" the Senate race in Texas.
Plus: Rep. Amash moves to limit weapons sales to Saudis while evangelical leaders defend them.
Plus: HHS proposes new drug-ad disclosures.
Plus: libertarian accounts purged from Facebook?
You'll never know for sure what's in someone else's heart. But forgiveness can be as much about what we owe ourselves as what someone else deserves.
Friday A/V Club: Long before "fake news" was a cliché, Alan Abel was both inserting and exposing fakery in the news.
And the guidelines for spying on journalists may be even looser under Trump.
Demands for government oversight hide opportunism amid rhetoric about safety.
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
A little consistency would be nice.
Threatened regulations on "fake news" would be an attack on press freedom
Elizabeth Nolan Brown exposes the flimsy case against the alt-weekly pioneers accused of facilitating sex trafficking through Backpage.com.
It's the beginning of the end, again.
The left doesn't believe racism against white people is possible.
She's pro-Israel, #NeverTrumper who has chronicled (and criticized) the "intellectual Dark Web." Prefabricated ideological boxes need not apply.
"Caused harm to members of several communities"
Many believe the footage will show what sheriffs were doing outside during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
The media sues for video that may show what Broward County Sheriff's deputies were doing during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
...and reminds everyone that sometimes a strip show is just a strip show.
The president's "anonymous source schtick is complete BS," says Charles Gasparino.
Lawmakers resist plan that would likely lead to widespread censorship of online media sharing.
Our terrible federal espionage laws won't let her argue the leak served the public's interest.
Former Senate Intel Committee staffer charged with lying about relationships with reporters covering Carter Page investigation.
EPA head bars reporters from 'unfriendly' media from public meeting on pollution
One reason the national political press has almost always liked the Arizona maverick? He shares their disdain for the conservative media bubble.
Many aren't willing to ignore her ties to torture just because of her sex.
Forget Yanni vs. Laurel. Donald Trump's latest controversy gets at the heart of what divides us.
The leading figures of the "Intellectual Dark Web" are incredibly popular. So why do they still feel so aggrieved?
The CNN host and best-selling novelist comes clean about his politics, why Hillary Clinton lost, and how his training in alternative media gives him a leg up.
For starters, don't describe the audience as incest survivors.
Wolf's White House-focused hostility was a hell of a lot healthier than the smug chumminess that usually prevails at the annual journalist gathering.
Each false "resignation" headline slowly further erodes the credibility of a press that functions both as Trump's opposition and his foil.
Reason editors rate the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump's nuclear politics, the optics of political summits, and the resuscitation of Zora Neale Hurston.
The MSNBC host kind of sucked on gay issues 10 years ago. So did most Democratic moderates.
Do deepfakes really represent "the collapse of reality"?
If you want to avoid conflict among hostile groups, decentralize power-preferably to individuals.
You don't need (and definitely do not want) the government to serve as a lie detector.
5 editorials call for the federal government to thwart Sinclair's expansion efforts in wake of creepy promo video; meanwhile you can count the number of anti-FOSTA eds on one finger
The freakout over the Sinclair Broadcast Group.