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The press needs to push back as Trump careens into war with Iran
Journalists have a unique role in the runup to war
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Dan Froomkin
11
‘How many people were arrested?’ is a lousy way to cover protests
Protests are big news now. I'm calling for better reporting on them.
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Dan Froomkin
14
Journalists are aiding and abetting Trump’s incitement in LA
The “crisis in LA” is entirely created by Trump, and the coverage should reflect that
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Dan Froomkin
15

May 2025

Mainstream media inches closer to addressing Trump’s racism
Still too many euphemisms and anodyne headlines, but it’s a start
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Dan Froomkin
53
The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news
Mainstream journalists are depriving their audiences of crucial context
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Dan Froomkin
92
We need a way to aggregate what Donald Trump is doing to this country
I'm calling for an army of volunteers to build a massive wiki that enumerates the things that are broken and will need fixing
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Dan Froomkin
30

April 2025

Trump’s ludicrous tattoo tirade ought to raise a lot of questions
It’s Trump in a microcosm – terribly, insistently wrong -- and a great case study for journalists to explore
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Dan Froomkin
42
The pushback Trump should have gotten from Time
Journalists should confront Trump with the truth and see how he reacts
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Dan Froomkin
17
The Trump regime should be covered as a criminal enterprise
It’s not a one-off when he does something flatly illegal. It’s his M.O.
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Dan Froomkin
11
Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk
Stenography, in this case, badly misleads the public
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Dan Froomkin
17

March 2025

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