What does WaPo call retrograde bullies and bigots spewing the kind of hatred that had been increasingly confined to the dark corners of society before the Trump era? "Emboldended shoppers."
Republicans want chaos because they know the media – and, as a result, the public -- will blame President Biden, both in the short term and in the long.
When a news organization has exclusive access to secrets that are effectively still secret, they have an obligation to publish them judiciously and maintain the secrecy of those that deserve it.
There is a huge distinction between a public-spirited leak and a self-serving, nihilistic theft of classified documents. Reporters should be making it.
The issue is not whether there is some factual basis in there somewhere, but that Trump and congressional Republicans are raging against Blacks and Jews.
The false but dominant media narrative is that this is a tough decision for the prosecutor that should be made with a view toward the political implications.
The true number of military personnel injured in Iraq is in the hundreds of thousands -- maybe even more than half a million -- if you just go a bit beyond the Pentagon's narrowly-tailored definition of "wounded in action". But no one ever bothered to keep count.
There were some incredibly obvious lessons to be learned from the media's failure in the run-up to war in Iraq. For the record, here are a few of them.
Now is the time to publicly and definitively explain journalism's core values and how Fox does not share them, and to never again allow anyone – the public, the pollsters, the funders, the political parties – to confuse the two.
The Washington Post opinion section is dull, addled, and inconsequential. It doesn’t come in for remotely as much criticism as the New York Times's -- but that’s because nobody cares about it enough to criticize it.
