Outside the Beltway

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

They went all-in on the Big Lie and we now have the receipts that they knew what they were doing.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

Why was it released to the public?

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

Another reason so many get their information from biased outlets.

An example of why its a good idea to wait for data before making policy decisions.

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

A perennial outrage.

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

I don’t think that means what he thinks it means.

Plus misleading reporting.

Knowing what FNC is likely saying without watching FNC.

Did you even notice?

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

It would be nice if politicians and cable news outlets were more responsible.

Covering the coverage.

Even the 2020 election deniers are conceding close elections in the midterms.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

The social platform beloved of the intellectual class is about to undergo radical change.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

Planned staff layoffs concern those who fear a free-for-all.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

An example of rationalization.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

The veteran newsman is gone at 84.

Jim VandeHei and company have put out a new style guide.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

A song and some passing thoughts on supermarket tabloids.

The fading tabloid still has significant influence.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

The President delivered a rousing stump speech from Independence Hall.

Truth Social is not doing all that well.

From a WaPo piece on the FSB and Ukraine.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

Columnists write bad columns apologizing for bad columns.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.