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“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 photograph of Hillary Clinton.
She’s sick, she’s a...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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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 skewed interpretation of their meaning. That fed t...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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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 were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of...
DATE: Jul 29, 2019
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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, just days before, that the city’s 150-year-old da...
DATE: Jul 09, 2019
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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 safety and cult hero Steve Gleason, who has motor neur...
DATE: May 09, 2019
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Roy Moore’s spokeswoman had a nasty name for reporters covering the Alabama Senate race: “The lynch-mob media.”
Stephen Bannon, the President’s deposed Svengali, slammed them as the “opposition party”.
And Moore’s wife — among many others — used the ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2017
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In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day brings a new low. I don’t mean Roy Moore’s campaign for the United States Senate, although that certainly has been at the centre, lately, of the broader crusade.
No, I mean the insidious dr...
DATE: Nov 29, 2017
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I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.
Like the word “inappropriate”, which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, the ESPN commentator, one of which described Donald Trump as a white supremacist.
Soon after...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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Does Donald Trump believe in the well-established role of the press in American democracy? It certainly doesn’t look that way. In recent months, his staff has roughed up a reporter and thrown another one out of a press event, and he has insulted jour...
DATE: Jun 15, 2016
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