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Trump coverage needs to change and here’s how

The billionaires are full of bull

How a great nonprofit news organization would cover national politics

The commercial news industry is incapable of fulfilling its constitutional duties

Patrick Soon-Shiong’s “button” would be the ruin of the LA Times

Going off the record with Trump? That’s just kissing his ring.

Searching for the right words to describe Trump’s destructive nominees

I blame the media

What if Trump wins?

Are our newsrooms ready for a Category 5 disinformation storm?

The Washington Post needs its independence from Jeff Bezos

'Thanks, Bezos, for caving in to fascism -- in advance'

A sickening moral collapse at the Washington Post

Time for a 'Cronkite moment'

If Trump wins, blame the New York Times

MAGA is a virus and the press should be the vaccine

New York Times opens the media floodgates on stories about Trump’s mental unfitness

Job numbers are through the roof. Where are all the interviews with new workers?

What if the media has the election all wrong?

Vance’s racist attacks are just 'rabble-rousing' to the New York Times

We deserve to know Kamala Harris better. Here’s how.

Trump’s mental capacity is now topic one

3 ways the mainstream media can redeem itself before Election Day

'Fact-checking' does a (hopefully fatal) face plant

Political reporters should report honestly that Trump’s campaign is based on lies

Reporters who have covered Walz give him generally high marks for responsiveness

The media is complicit in spreading Trump’s racist calumnies

Next time Trump says there won’t be a need to vote in 2028, the media should be ready

How to investigate Kamala Harris without repeating the mistakes of 2016

Don’t treat Trump like he has no agency

Trump was winning. Now maybe he’s not. That's the news.

The political media’s fantasy of an “unified” America defies reality

CNN fails the nation

CNN’s facts-optional debate moderation is a gift to the liar

Maya Pines Froomkin, 1928-2024

Will Lewis must go

Beware the Tory takeover of the Washington Post

‘Trump supporters don’t read the news’ is no excuse for craven political coverage

Trump choosing not to testify in his own defense should be a banner headline

Show me the happy faces of the Biden economy — and other urgent story assignments for the MSM

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it

Journalists are blaming the wrong people for violence at college protests

Biden implores journalists to ‘rise up to the seriousness of the moment’

The media should be celebrating college protesters instead of demonizing them

Every report on Trump’s trial requires this basic explanation of the charges

Credulous journalists misreport Trump’s abortion comments, refuse to correct themselves

The Washington press corps doesn’t have a freaking clue

‘Critics say’ is an insufficient way to contextualize Trump’s false, offensive, and antisemitic calumny against Democratic Jews

It’s not just our democracy at stake, it’s our freedom

Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.

21 story assignments about Trump’s authoritarian threat

Every new Trump endorsement is a story of profound moral collapse

The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial

When is a huge news story not a huge news story?

Why are billionaire newspaper owners so damn cheap?

Is the media marching us to war (again)?

Peter Baker splits the difference again?

The duty to intervene: What news organizations need to do in 2024

My proposed additions to the New York Times style guide to improve its political coverage

Reporters should ask Republicans if they renounce political violence

A Jan. 6 conspiracy theory that hasn’t been disproven

How much of Trump’s support is due to racism?