Dean Wright
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Veteran journalist with Reuters, AP, MSNBC.com, many newspapers. Former global ethics and standards editor at Reuters. Consultant and journalism instructor.
An earlier arrest of a president--for speeding...in a carriage. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/nyregion/ulysses-grant-trump-arrest.html
Dan GillmorWhat can/should Big Journalism do? For starters:
-- Fox "News" and its employees should be kicked out of any press organization or association in which they hold official status or membership.
-- News organizations that care about journalistic integrity should announce publicly that they will not hire from Fox.
Treating Fox as a legitimate news organization should have ended long ago. Better late than never, but if the craft won't do the right thing now, it never will.
Smart thread from Jay Rosen. https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109898085649286576
Jay RosenThough it is styled as one, Fox is not a news organization. And it's not opinion, either. It is something else: Power formation by means of resentment news.
But the formula doesn't always work. The crowd seethes back when the machine miscalculates, generating its own kind of power.
Reactionary is the right term for it. 13/
Did you watch the "Kevin McCarthy's tormentors" this week?
I did. During which I kept thinking of this piece published in the Washington Post in 2012 by Norm Ornstein and Tom Mann.
It's difficult to describe how utterly establishment Mann and Ornstein were at the time. One was at Brookings, the other at American Enterprise Institute.
They saw what was happening: The GOP's attack on all institutions. The press didn't want to know. Now it does.
The most corrupt president in American history, despite a law requiring IRS audits of sitting presidents, apparently ordered the IRS not to audit him while he held office. This was revealed when Trump's tax returns were released a few days ago, but Big Journalism has almost totally moved on. Here's one reporter who thinks maybe this -- and so much more in Trump's sleazy dealings -- is a problem. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-03/trump-s-tax-returns-reveal-murky-global-business-deals
david robertsY'all, all the content on my Substack is free to everyone, because I want it to be useful to as many people as possible. My paid subscribers pay because they can & because they think it's valuable & because they want me to keep doing it.
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Words are important. Journalists should be careful describing any of the House GOP members as "moderates". More than half voted to overturn the 2020 election after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6,
DeanObeidallahDem House Leader Hakeem Jeffries last night: "House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, the Constitution over the cult, democracy over demagogues, economic opportunity over extremism, freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred...quality of life issues over QAnon, reason over racism, substance over slander, triumph over tyranny, understanding over ugliness, voting rights over voter suppression..." This pissed off GOP!