After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to demo...
Through the pandemic lockdown, I shared an evening ritual with a friend: a quick over-the-phone debrief about the episode of Jeopardy! we had both just watched, at slightly different times.
Did either...
Journalism has never been the most admired of professions, and in recent years the rap on its practitioners has only gotten worse.
Gallup puts trust in the American news media at about 40 per cent nat...
Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump was an object of media fascination. He could never actually become presiden...
With so much news slamming us at every moment, it’s hard to see any of it as having enduring value. Who can even remember what happened last week?
But not everything is ephemeral. Some journalism rea...
“Lock her up,” thundered the crowds. The bumper stickers went: “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly” with those adjectives, in order, over the Republican elephant symbol, the Democratic donkey symbol — and a ...
How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to the 2016 presidential election? Let me count the ways.
Journalists relied too much on what opinion polls were saying and often presented a ...
Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced resignation.
In between the two events wer...
Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow.
“Gobsmacked” was how one Youngstown reader described her horrified reaction to the surprise announcement,...
The day of the New Orleans Saints’ home opener in 2013, fans arrived at the Superdome to find a special edition of The Advocate draped over every seat.
The newspaper’s main story was about Saints safe...
