Frank Bruni, in a powerful essay for The New York Times, wonders if the media has learned from its mistakes of 2016.
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Did the Networks Get Played by Trump’s Address? Either Way, They Failed.
Jon Allsop, writing for Columbia Journalism Review, takes a close (and critical) look at the networks’ decision to carry President Donald J. Trump’s Oval Office address.
Conservative Media Turns on Trump for Going Wobbly on the Wall
Jason Schwartz at Politico looks at the turning of the conservative-media tide that may have led to the current shutdown of the federal government.
Sarah Sanders Declines to Condemn Trump’s Attacks on Female Journalists
President Donald Trump has made numerous derisive comments about female reporters, but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders won’t say whether he crossed the line.
Defending the president during a talk hosted by POLITICO, Sanders said on Tuesday that male reporters had been equally targeted by Trump’s vitriol and derision during press briefings.
Why PolitiFact Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Lie’—Except Once a Year
You might expect a website that fact-checks American politics to use the word “lie” a lot. But at PolitiFact, we don’t.
We use the word lie once a year, when we consider a year’s worth of fact-checking and pick one falsehood that we consider the most egregious. We call it the Lie of the Year, and we’ve named one every December since 2009. This year’s Lie of the Year was the online smears against the Parkland students.
Syrian Journalist Denied Visa to Speak at University of Pennsylvania Under U.S. Travel Ban
Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim was scheduled to speak at Penn this semester after being named this year’s “Writer at Risk.” However, because of the Trump administration’s travel ban, she has been barred from entering the country.
Erhaim was invited to Penn last summer as part of a new annual program…
The Importance of Avoiding Mueller Speculation
Last week, reporters were on tenterhooks as Robert Mueller prepared to show his hand again. Impending court deadlines promised potentially explosive new information on three characters central to his investigation—Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort. The Flynn filing dropped on Tuesday but its heavy redactions made it feel anticlimactic, and so the waiting game continued.
'I Can't Breathe.' Jamal Khashoggi's Last Words Disclosed in Transcript, Source Says
"I can't breathe." These were the final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country's consulate in Istanbul, according to a source briefed on the investigation into the killing of the Washington Post columnist.
NYT EDITORIAL: The War on Truth Spreads
A free and unfettered news media has long been anathema to authoritarian rulers, but even George Orwell might not have anticipated that some of the most unscrupulous assaults on press freedoms would one day be perpetrated by democratically elected governments.