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Fact-checking needs to make way for reality-testing and gaslighting-fighting
Explainers

Fact-checking needs to make way for reality-testing and gaslighting-fighting

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Horse race
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Focus on tactics over substance takes all the meaning out of politics

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A chart from the Shorenstein Center report "In the Shadow of Kerner: Fifty Years Later, Newsroom Diversity and Equity Stall".
Covering Race

Newsrooms are struggling to cover race

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An actual section of the leaked full transcript of a Wall Street Journal interview of Trump in 2017, which included then-editor-in-chief Gerard Baker.
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Too many political journalists are too damned timid

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That thing that just happened didn’t just happen in a vacuum
Context

That thing that just happened didn’t just happen in a vacuum

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The old labels don’t properly capture today’s political divisions
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The old labels don’t properly capture today’s political divisions

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A scene from "All the President's Men"
Anonymous Sources

Anonymity for sources shouldn’t come cheap

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Political journalists are doing voter interviews all wrong
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Political journalists are doing voter interviews all wrong

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NYT story about Trump and Warren both being "populists"
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False equivalence fuels political journalism’s race to the bottom

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