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Allison Hantschel Dec 10, 2024

This month's column in @damemagazine is about running 20 stories about Hunter Biden's pardon, and maybe a third of one about how Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian spy: https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/10/corporate-media-is-obeying-in-advance/

Corporate Media Is Obeying in Advance - Dame Magazine

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax evasion crimes for which no non-famous person would ever be prosecuted, every newsroom in America treated it like Christmas morning had come at Super Bowl halftime during Mardi Gras. Editors and producers at newspapers and television networks produced the kind of round-the-clock coverage more appropriate

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Allison Hantschel Nov 19, 2024

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about the way the press has pivoted from "we need to hang on Kamala's every word for signs of a 'gaffe'" to "Donald Trump will kill us all if you don't subscribe immediately." https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/19/democracy-is-dying-in-broad-daylight/

Democracy Is Dying in Broad Daylight - Dame Magazine

The day after former-President Donald Trump defeated Vice-President Kamala Harris, America’s national media began asking tough questions about how Trump planned to immediately deport millions of immigrants, a key campaign promise. How exactly would Trump institute high tariffs on foreign goods without cratering the U.S. economy? Would his stated goal of “firing woke generals” be

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Allison Hantschel Oct 25, 2024

I wrote about the disaster waiting to happen at the Washington Post months ago, and now it's happening: https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/06/18/the-new-washington-post-leadership-is-a-disaster-for-democracy/

The New Washington Post Leadership Is a Disaster for Democracy - Dame Magazine

In the weeks leading up to a presidential election, the quality of a media outlet’s coverage can swing an entire country from calm prosperity to complete chaos. It sounds hyperbolic, but political races, especially at the state level, are often determined by a few thousand votes, and those votes can make the difference between a

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Allison Hantschel Oct 17, 2024

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The Media & Democracy Project Oct 17, 2024

Journalists Make Choices!

Third panel of guidelines: Protect Americans from disinformation!

Demand that newsrooms improve their election coverage!

#Disinformation
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Allison Hantschel Oct 15, 2024

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about the cowardly decision to memory-hole Jan. 6 and pretend this is a normal election: https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/10/15/legacy-media-has-memory-holed-january-6/

Legacy Media Has Memory-Holed January 6 - Dame Magazine

Some tragic, terrible days in American history are remembered as such in perpetuity. Consider the commemorations of 9/11, which never downplay the seriousness of the attacks or the suffering of those who experienced them. Remembrances of Pearl Harbor call to mind the sacrifices of those who served at the time. Vivid stories of battles and

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Allison Hantschel Sep 18, 2024

I have some words for the pundits lecturing Kamala Harris on how to campaign in @damemagazine this month: https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/09/17/the-pundits-think-they-know-whats-best-for-harris-walz/

The Pundits Think They Know What’s Best for Harris-Walz - Dame Magazine

Vice-President Kamala Harris has been given marching orders by the pundits of our major newspapers, the armchair Democratic advisors to past presidents sitting on TV panels, the scholars of campaigns past. Vice-President Kamala Harris must move to the center. She must appeal to right-wing voters. She must convince people she cares about their problems. She

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Allison Hantschel Aug 13, 2024

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about the terrible, horrible, no-good coverage of Harris's campaign. https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/08/13/media-trump-bias/

Might As Well Face It, the Press Is Addicted to Trump - Dame Magazine

Vice-President Kamala Harris was the Democratic presidential candidate for about 30 seconds before the nation’s political media started falling on its keys covering her campaign. Editors and producers amplified Republican complaints about her supposed lack of foreign policy experience, her racial and ethnic heritage, her gender, and … her laugh. CNN reports: [Former President Donald]

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Allison Hantschel Aug 5, 2024

Flipboard News Desk Aug 5, 2024

Special prosecutors say they plan to charge a Kansas police chief with obstruction of justice in connection to a raid on a town newspaper last year. In a report, prosecutors say the Marion police conducted a mismanaged investigation that led them to “erroneous conclusions” that the paper’s owner and a reporter committed identity theft and computer crimes, sparking a national debate about press freedoms. Read more from the Associated Press.

https://flip.it/JCrPRp

#Police #Kansas #Press #Journalism #Misconduct #KansasCity

Former Kansas police chief to be charged following newspaper raid

Two special prosecutors say they plan to file an obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town’s newspaper, and that the newspaper’s staff committed no crimes. It wasn’t clear from the prosecutors’ lengthy report whether they planned to charge former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody with a felony or a misdemeanor. Either is possible. They also hadn’t filed their criminal case as of Monday, and that could take days because they were working with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. They detailed events before, during and after the Aug. 11, 2023, raid on the Marion County Record and the home of its publisher, Eric Meyer.

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Allison Hantschel Jul 16, 2024

This month in @damemagazine I wrote about the overwhelming treatment of Trump as a normal person doing person things, and how insidious it is: https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/07/16/trump-will-never-be-a-normal-presidential-candidate/

Trump Will Never Be a Normal Presidential Candidate - Dame Magazine

In the wake of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, the usual media suspects fell all over themselves to praise Trump’s political acumen in not dying, and quote anonymous Democrats declaring the election over and Trump victorious. Nothing that happens to Trump can be anything but great

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Allison Hantschel Mar 19, 2024

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For years, #reproductivejustice activists have been warning that the GOP’s “fetal personhood” bills would endanger access to birth control and fertility treatment—especially IVF. Why hasn't the media taken them to task? @Athenae for us today.

#abortionrights #media #IndependentJournalism

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/03/19/bad-journalism-is-giving-life-to-the-fetal-personhood-lie/

Bad Journalism Is Giving Life to the “Fetal Personhood” Lie - Dame Magazine

It took ten years for me to have a baby, and at no point in that time did I think: You know what would make this grueling, expensive, uncomfortable process even better? The federal government’s involvement. During my thrice-daily injections of hormones, my daily blood draws, and twice-weekly ultrasounds, not once did I want my

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