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Objective Journalism in an Objectively Uneven Contest

What if one of the candidates is Hitler?

Politics as Sport

The game is the game.

The Senate Dress Code

Much ado about nothing?

Should The Press Pick a Side?

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

Trump Meets The Press

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

Does Comedy Have to be Based on Truth?

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

President Donald J. Trump participates in a FOX News Channel virtual town hall entitled America Together: Returning to Work, with co-moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum live from the Lincoln Memorial Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) President Donald J. Trump participates in a FOX News Channel virtual town hall entitled America Together: Returning to Work, with co-moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum live from the Lincoln Memorial Sunday, May 3, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Why America’s News Networks Are So Bad

It’s Nixon’s fault?

When Does Politics Stop Being Politics?

When we do it, it’s negotiation. When they do it, it’s hostage taking—and terrorism.

Journalistic Ethics and Mangled Quotes

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

Tucker Carlson’s Depressing Realization

The fired propagandist has had an epiphany about bullshit.

The Ever-Shifting Media Landscape

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

Fox News Settles Suit, Will Carry on As Before

A $787.5 million flesh wound.

Biden to Reshape Joint Chiefs

He’s likely to make heads explode.

Getting Paid for Internet Content

Who should pay whom for what?

NPR Downsizing to Survive

A significant cut to staff and programming to stay afloat.

Reporter Fired for Calling DeSantis Propaganda ‘Propaganda’

Truth is not an absolute defense against termination.

Rod Dreher Canceled

Things finally got too weird for his benefactor.

Harvard Extension Fraud

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Ivy Ressentiment

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

OTB at 20

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Matt Yglesias’ Return to His Roots

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

Blake Hounshell, 1978-2023

A brilliant journalist is gone at 44.

Bernard Kalb, 1922-2023

The longtime journalist is gone at 100.

On Polling and Media Narratives

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Partisan News Easier to Read!

Another reason so many get their information from biased outlets.

Barbara Walters, 1929-2022

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

Richard Shelby and the Old Senate

“You can’t be against everything.”

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Follow Up On Yesterday’s Santos Column

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

The Deterioration and Death of Old Media

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

AP Fires Reporter For Reporting

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

Manchin’s Reward

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

The Media is Biased Against Us!

Journalists openly root for a good story.

A Spotify for News

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Can Reporters Have Friends?

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

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The Declining Market for News

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

Bernard Shaw, 1940-2022

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

Fear of a White Scholar

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

CNN’s Centrist Gambit

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

The Media Rage Machine

Shockingly, when the most-watched news outlet is built on divisiveness, the country becomes divided.

Social Justice the New Religion?

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Medal of Valor ceremony, Monday, May 16, 2022, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Medal of Valor ceremony, Monday, May 16, 2022, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

The News is Bad for Biden

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

Democracy Dies in Dumbness

Paywalls are not our problem.

Who’s Running the Washington Post, Anyway?

Apparently, whoever has the most Twitter followers.

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The Graph Of The Day

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

Plagiarized News Reports

Another journalist has been fired for a cardinal sin.

Lived Experience in Art and Journalism

What are the limits of representation?

Merriman Smith ‘Canceled’ Posthumously

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.