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Countdown: One week left to douse the ‘five-alarm’ fire
People send me headlines and news alerts that drive them crazy.
It’s no doubt because I’ve written here, often, about the failures of the mainstream media, in fully making Americans aware of the dangerous moment we’re living in. One of the...
The incredible disappearing press secretary —and two telling headlines
First, as you probably know, I’ve been tracking how well Big Journalism has served its public-interest role in the run-up to the extremely important midterm elections. After all, American democracy is on the line, as I’ve argued here and he...
The midterms are almost here, and the early media grades are in
I’ll get to my grades for five midterm-elections stories in a moment, but first two bits of recommended reading, one on the thirty years of Fox News that have done so much damage to this country, and the second on a bungled story and insuff...
A biting critique of the New York Times that may change what you read
Let’s start with the second part.
I’ve just finished reading Evan Gershkovich’s insightful and moving memoir of his days in a Russian prison after he (a Wall Street Journal reporter in Moscow) was arrested and jailed on trumped-up and fals...
How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom
A couple of weeks ago, I promised the readers of American Crisis that I’d be pressing for better media coverage of the midterm elections.
What I meant by that (and many of you agreed) is journalism that is focused on the consequences, not...
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I’m a pro-democracy media critic, an author and an occasional glass-ceiling breaker. You might know me as the former public editor of the New York Times.
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