Outside the Beltway

Can the media fairly parse the statements of those running against President ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

It looks like fewer people are tuning in for the second Democratic debate.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

Wednesday’s Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn’t exactly a ratings blockbuster.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

Anchoring of CBS Evening News is not what it used to be.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a District Court ruling that President Trump cannot block Twitter users from accessing his account.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

Stephanie Grisham, presently a top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, has been named the new White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving office at the end of the month.

America’s Newspaper of Record has decided the backlash isn’t worth it.

It’s been three months since the White House held a press briefing. Meanwhile, the President continues his unhinged attacks on the media.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

Strong public records laws, not an excess of weirdness, has driven a sad meme.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

President Trump isn’t pleased that a news network that has generally been his own personal propaganda network is reaching out to Democrats.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.

A year and a half into the #MeToo era, we’re still debating who gets to have a career.

A depressing day in the world of sports journalism.

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

Before we draw broad conclusions of the reporting on the report, don’t we need to see the report?

A weird takedown from within the #Resistance.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A new report demonstrates that the relationship between Fox News Channel and the Trump Administration is much closer and more pervasive than previously believed.

Grammar and spelling errors abound at all but a handful of news sites.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

The end of racism may have been prematurely declared.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

The publisher of the National Enquirer is learning that it may have been a mistake to go to war against Jeff Bezos.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

Many people are wondering how CNN knew to be at Roger Stone’s house in Florida this morning. It turns out that it was good old-fashioned reporting.

In both cases, appeals to emotion are not diminished by disregard for accuracy.

The longer video and deeper investigation of the incident reveals a very different story.