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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)

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Editor of Press Watch (presswatchers.org) ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.

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John Schwartz's avatar John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social
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Linda Greenhouse is a national treasure: "The opinion reads as an untamed excursion through Justice Alito’s id, with passages that are close to unhinged." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Imagine paying someone to write these columns -- like, real money! -- on the assumption that there's an audience out there that not only *wants* to hear these pearls of wisdom but absolutely *needs* to hear them for the good of the nation. It's baffling.

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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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Biden’s performance was stumbling and inept. But Trump’s incessant lying, refusal to answer direct questions, and general lunacy would have been the other major takeaway from the debate if the moderators had done their jobs. presswatchers.org/2024/06/cnn-...

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Brooke Pierce's avatar Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social
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CNN should be embarrassed by their performance last night. Listening to Trump's firehose of lies and then merely saying 'Thank you, Mr. Trump' each time he told them. Not doing even a little bit of fact checking made them look pathetic.

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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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The signal failure of the American media during the modern era has been the refusal to hold Donald Trump accountable for his behavior–and, in particular, his endless lies. That has never been more obvious than it was Thursday night. presswatchers.org/2024/06/cnn-...

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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As Pride Month comes to an end, here's a moving package of reminiscences from thirty people, from their early thirties to their early nineties, asked by the NYT Style Magazine to share their memories of being queer, an artist, and thirty years old. I wrote the intro. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I strongly believe that the Trump era ushered in a truly horrific era of general ethical backsliding and nihilism in the US across all fronts, one that we still can’t even entirely wrap our brains around. (And Trump’s grotesquely evil approach to Covid made it even worse).

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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This is not what they ruled; they ruled than an injunction can stay in place while the case proceed through the lower courts. This headlines makes it sound like the Court vindicated the right to an emergency abortion; they did not.

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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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Two years later, the mainstream media is still failing to grasp how much Dobbs was a massive win for misogyny and theocracy. From 2022: presswatchers.org/2022/06/mass...

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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This is why I've soured on "fact-checking." It's the job of media outlets to report the truth. Establishing a new media outlet and not hardening it against infiltration by people who want to use it to lie outrageously and at scale is just creating a new vector to disseminate lies.

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"The Washington Post is now, officially, a piece of crap, owned by a billionaire, run by British millionaires, people without any integrity," writes Gene Weingarten. open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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it is very funny that this piece is a detailed examination of glenn youngkin’s (not particularly hard to predict) failure as governor that pivots, halfway, into arguing that he is still a rare political talent. well, if true, he wouldn’t be a lame duck with a year and some change left in his term!

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Wow I had assumed he fired the managing editor working on this story and tried to pressure a separate outlet away from covering this story because he's entirely innocent

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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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Yes! Exactly!

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Paul Krugman's avatar Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Remember all those 2022 predictions that getting inflation down would require years of very high unemployment? Here’s where we are now (using the Cleveland Fed nowcast for May)

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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hilzoy's avatar hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social
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Imagine how low the statistic would be if you included officers whose victims were to scared to report them, officers no one was willing to prosecute; officers like the one described below, who is now considering applying for another job in law enforcement. 😬

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“We in the media have failed by becoming inured to Trump’s verbal incontinence — not just the rapid-fire lies and revenge-seeking threats, but also the frightening glimpses into a mind that is, evidently, unwell,” writes Eugene Robinson
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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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Want to see MSM gaslighting normalization at work? The @nytimes's horrific On Politics newsletter doesn't say Trump unintelligibly ranted like a maniac, it says he "digressed about the dangers of shark attacks." Watch it yourself. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/u...

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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)'s avatar Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org) @froomkin.bsky.social
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Here's a statement from Edward Wasserman, former Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on Will Lewis, the publisher of the Washington Post:

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"Trump has normalized retribution as a proper scope of presidential action and the use of political power. Terror becomes the perverted populist funhouse mirror of patriotism." (And the media has enabled this.)

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This thing from Will Lewis is not a "conciliatory" memo, as per NYT story. He's basically saying: I will engage in some performative listening and you will understand me better. There is no apology, no actual humility. Just a desire to move on. No dice.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/b...

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The allegation is that Will Lewis threw low-level people under the bus and destroyed evidence in the phone-hacking scandal in order “to keep his boss out of an orange jumpsuit.” So far, there is verisimilitude, not confirmation. Eager for more reporting! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/w...

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The Post, although it forbids reporters from accepting even small gifts from sources, has no official policy on the much larger conflicts of interest that involve its owner – or, now, its publisher. presswatchers.org/2024/06/will...

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Also in this story: Steve Bannon loves the incoming WaPo editor, Robert Winnett, who led an increasingly far-right paper in the UK. Bannon told the Guardian that Winnett was “a great pick to make the fucking thing more relevant and readable”.

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“The claim about Lewis prompted some Post journalists to consider whether it was time to make a direct plea about their concerns to the owner, Jeff Bezos, according to a source familiar with internal discussions.” www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

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JZS's avatar JZS @jzsamm.bsky.social
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If cartoon villain Bezos cared about his newsroom's credibility, he wouldn't have hired a Murdoch minion in the first place. I wonder if the WaPo terms of sale to him are available anywhere. He started corrupting WaPo almost exactly 10 years after he bought it.

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Are you with me?

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David Folkenflik says Will Lewis has "launched a broadside on values held dear at the Post and elsewhere of the idea of a firewall insulating the newsroom from pressure from those that it covers, including those who run its business side.” www.npr.org/2024/06/07/n...

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