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Pressing Issues Jonathan Reiss Jun 28, 2022

What Is the Point of Sunday Political “News” Shows?

Jonathan Reiss Jun 28, 2022

Shows like "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation" once featured informative discussions with a combination of pundits and experts. Now they've swapped experts for both-sideist banter and political theater. And it's destroying the national conversation

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Jun 14, 2022

Journalists Know Better Than to Publish Copaganda

Allison Hantschel Jun 14, 2022

The news out of Uvalde is worse with each passing day—and just the latest example of legacy media's failure to be critical of law enforcement.

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel May 10, 2022

Oh, So Now Media Men Want to Talk About ‘Roe’

Allison Hantschel May 10, 2022

Cis-male pundits have entered the chat on abortion, and pushed out the women who have been on the front lines of the fight from the conversation.

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Pressing Issues Parker Molloy Apr 13, 2022

Opinion Journalism Is Broken

Parker Molloy Apr 13, 2022

The goal of newspapers is to inform the public. But increasingly, they are publishing opinion pieces as fact, misleading and confusing readers, and undermining their own agenda—and quite possibly, our democracy.

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Apr 12, 2022

Why Aren’t Biden’s Victories Winning Him Any Points?

Allison Hantschel Apr 12, 2022

Thanks to this administration, our job numbers are booming, international diplomacy is being restored, and we have our first Black woman Supreme Court justice. And yet the D.C. press corps portrays Biden as a worse president than his criminal predecessor.

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Mar 8, 2022

Legacy Media’s Useless Mea Culpas

Allison Hantschel Mar 8, 2022

Does the New York Times’ executive editor Dean Baquet really expect us to believe that he didn’t realize white Trump supporters are racist?

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Feb 8, 2022

Legacy Media Has a Trump Fetish

Allison Hantschel Feb 8, 2022

If democracy dies in darkness, then why are the Washington Post and New York Times so intent on hastening its demise with their myopic focus on white GOP voters?

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Jan 11, 2022

White Media Men Are At It Again

Allison Hantschel Jan 11, 2022

The Elite White Boys Club is launching yet another well-funded news organization, while independent journalism, led by women and people of color, struggles to survive.

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Dec 14, 2021

Venture Capitalists Are Killing the News Industry

Allison Hantschel Dec 14, 2021

When investors pour millions of dollars into media ventures but have zero interest in journalism, it hastens the demise of our democracy.