Tag: But Her Emails
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Our News Media STILL Can’t Handle Donald Trump
I’ve no doubt that KRISTEN WELKER, newly appointed host of NBC’s creaky, tired, old MEET THE PRESS, is good at something. Journalism however ain’t it. Even when she was just a regular member of NBC News’ reporting corps, Kristen regularly demonstrated that she was a mediocre little girl trying to fill a skilled, grown woman’s…
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Our News Media Is A False Equivalence Factory
America’s news media is lost. Last night epitomized that fact. Joe Biden delivered a remarkable State Of The Union Address including the part where he swatted down repeated Republican heckling. Fact: both sides don’t do that – heckle a POTUS while they’re delivering the SOTU. Both sides don’t shout out “You lie!” during it. But,…
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You Can’t View Extraordinary Times Through An Ordinary Lens
I keep trying to put my finger on this strange feeling I get every time I turn on cable news. It’s like the news media – even as they report the biggest story ever – fail to grasp how big the story is. A patch of grass fascinates them. Too bad it’s in the middle…
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Not Every Issue Has Two Sides – Like The Question “Should American Democracy End?”
The “Both Sides Do It” brand of journalism – cynical all the way down to its mitochondria – gives all sides to a story equal weight because it refuses to judge anything, prizing “neutrality” above even the Truth. Pick a conflict between two people, two groups, two nations and both sides, BSDI journalism says, have…
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Every Time A Journalist Fails To Call “Corruption” What It Is, They Normalize Corruption A Little Bit More
Here’s a question for every single American journalist — or journalist who’s working the American beat: how much corruption does it take for you to witness personally before you will call that thing “corrupt” professionally? Maybe I’m asking the wrong question… Do American journalists even recognize corruption as corruption anymore? That’s a terrifying thought —…
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The Terrible Truth Is: Donald Trump Knows Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
Let me be clear first: with one profound exception, Donald J Trump doesn’t “know” anything! His bloated, orange treason-head is utterly devoid of coherent thought beyond how to keep filling his greedy maw. All that cobwebby space between Trump’s ears and beneath that awful haircut is filled nearly to bursting with one piece of absolute…
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Republicans Love Grievance Kabuki
Selling good ideas that people want isn’t nearly has hard as selling terrible ideas that no one except a privileged few would want. The majority of Americans have zero interest in what the Republican Party wants to sell them because the majority of Americans don’t want to live in the distant past — somewhere around…
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America Is Literally Sick To Death With Republican Corruption
The most frustrating aspect of watching cable news is when the cable news people ascribe normal, political motives to whatever the Republicans are doing — whether it’s standing with insurrectionists, openly restricting other Americans’ voting rights or committing treason (which is what Trumpism is). For Republicans, the new normal is whatever new low Trump has…