Readers deserve to know who assigned, edited, and wrote the headline for political news stories. The should show themselves, instead of operating in anonymity – unaccountable, and also uncelebrated.
He is counting on mainstream journalists, once again, being so desperate to cast themselves as “impartial” that they will normalize what is effectively 21st-century American fascism.
CNN’s latest big move is a huge victory for Fox. By firing Brian Stelter, CNN’s new management has rid Fox – temporarily, I hope – of one of its chief scourges.
Journalists should be making absolutely clear that Republican candidates for key state and federal offices are fully prepared to steal any future election that doesn’t go their way – making the conspiracy theory they spread about 2020 actually come true in 2024.
Looking back on the past four weeks of my tweets, one of the themes that emerges is that covering Trump was all a game for our top political journalists, who were competing for short-term attention when they should have been crusading for the truth.
Even after our top political reporters started using the right word to describe Trump's lies, they didn’t explain why he was lying. That was a huge mistake, with major repercussions today.
For a lot of us, the news makes us feel sick to our stomachs, screaming mad, and terrified for our country’s future as a functioning democracy. Who will speak for us?
There’s currently no widely acceptable way for the rich, white and cis to directly express their desire to maintain their position of control and power and superiority over others. So all the emotional intensity – and money – behind that worldview gets poured into this insane bucket of anti-wokeism.
What Hutchinson clearly indicated is that Trump intended to storm into the House chamber at the head of the mob and demand that Congress declare him the winner. They call that dictatorship.
