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Press Watch () and Heads Up news (). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. I afflict comfortable journalists.

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1Sep 19, '24Maggie Haberman tells NPR that there is an "industry" dedicated to "attacking the media" from the left for its Trump coverage, which is "undermining faith" in journalism. There is 82.3×2.2M10k2.3k387
2Jan 26, '24Why are the major news outlets ignoring Abbott's rebellion? There's nothing or next to nothing by NYT, AP, WaPo, . I found one article in the Guardian:57.6×1.6M3.3k1.2k125
3Jul 9, '24They actually chose to run the story in the print edition even after the WH denial, under a slightly caveated headline: "Parkinson’s Expert Visited White House 8 Times in 8 Months,50.2×1.4M1.9k49462
4Sep 11, '24NPR correctly concludes: “The spotlight should now be on Trump’s incoherence and general lack of any serious grasp on policy.”31.1×844k33k7.8k429
5Sep 15, '23In these clips, Trump utters about 30 different lies, and there's zero pushback from Kristen Welker, who instead calls him "fired up" and "defiant" – and "the president." This is, 21.5×584k7.6k2.1k96
6Apr 24, '24The New York Times needs an intervention.20.6×558k5.4k75286
7Aug 29, '24CNN gets it. WaPo is weak. NYT is a joke. CNN: "Army rebukes Trump campaign for incident at Arlington National Cemetery" WAPO: "Army defends cemetery staffer who was ‘pushed aside’17.8×482k2.5k57580
8Sep 9, '24"If you believe that your name has been improperly removed from the list of registered voters, please file an online complaint with the Civil Rights Division, or call us at 1-800-214.9×404k6.5k5.3k426
9Jun 12, '23I have often written about the puzzling and disturbing habit of NYT reporters featuring GOP ringers as regular voters (out of laziness or corruption, I dunno). guess what? 1/314.8×401k2k529110
10Sep 2, '22Now updated with truth-telling from @JohnJHarwood, which was followed moments later by his departure from CNN.13.7×018k5.2k795
11Mar 5, '24The NYT spends all day searching for bad news about Biden "and then they reserve a space nearly every day above the fold on the front page for whatever grain of grim shit the Biden12.3×333k3.7k1.2k156
12Jul 28, '20Barr's disrespect for non-white questioners is so blatant it should be a main element of the news coverage.12.2×021k4k90
13Nov 6, '24AND WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?11.9×323k3.4k47751
14Sep 24, '23I'd like to see a Sunday show devoted to the misinformation of the week: Take whatever lie is doing the most damage, debunk it, and explain the motives of those spreading it. And t11.4×310k1.7k42728
15Feb 22, '21Some journalist really needs to collar Manchin and ask him how he justifies opposing Tanden when he voted for Sessions, Barr, Grennell, Pompeo, Kavanaugh. He presumably thinks she 10.2×016k3.7k53
16Nov 8, '24Not the Onion! The Atlantic!9.9×268k2.5k363102
17Apr 19, '24"I think we in the media are making a big mistake in either ignoring Fox News or treating it like it is a media outlet. It isn’t. It is a news-making entity that is basically a pro9.8×266k2.3k833108
18Sep 24, '24Brutal, must-read column by @drewmagary about how the New York Times is boosting Trump's candidacy by refusing to report the truth: That Harris is destroying him.9.8×265k6.9k2.5k429
19May 16, '24This story is literally nowhere on the Washington Post or NY Times home pages. Nowhere. (Lead story in WSJ.)9.0×244k2.9k1.2k94
20Jul 4, '23Alternate headline: "Trump Judge Bars FBI From Warning Social Media Sites About Sex Abuse and Terrorism"9.0×244k1.9k76433
21Jul 11, '24Los Angeles Times editorial: "Trump is the only man in the presidential race manifestly unworthy of holding a position of power, and has no business ever returning to the White Hou8.5×231k9.5k3.2k128
22Jul 2, '23"Who are you trying to help?" is a great question. Journalists should ask it more often.8.3×226k1.7k36640
23Jun 16, '22Good to see ABC News not playing down the historical significance of today's hearing. @jonkarl says "I have to say that last hour of this hearing is as powerful, as intense, as sea8.1×015k2.3k55
24Jan 23, '25First documented raid where ICE detained everyone, including citizens (and a veteran). The mayor is understandably outraged. It begins.8.0×216k4.3k1k308
25Nov 6, '24The mainstream media never gave Biden credit for anything. Tell me that wasn’t a major factor.7.9×213k3k47543
26Sep 9, '24This is a brilliant editorial from the Philadelphia Inquirer, full of essential questions for Trump at tomorrow's debate. @ABCPolitics @DavidMuir @LinseyDavis please take notes!7.7×208k3.2k1.5k218
27Oct 3, '20Presidential physician Sean Conley is an osteopath who has repeatedly covered up for Trump before, and prescribed him hydroxychloroquine. We need to hear from independent, Walter R7.2×011k2.7k27
28Sep 2, '22Now further updated: A knowledgeable source tells me @JohnJHarwood was informed last month that today would be his last day, even though he was on a long-term contract. "He used on7.1×010k2.7k358
29Aug 14, '20Mailboxes being disappeared from blue parts of red state:6.9×05.6k4.6k154
30Jun 4, '23His very name became shorthand for a toxic false equivalence narcotizing the nation into indifference. Good riddance.6.9×187k1.6k26814
31Oct 3, '23Hey WaPo, why are you still writing “alleged” when the judge has already ruled that it was fraud?6.9×187k5.4k1k10
32Jul 18, '24Best thing I've read about the RNC: "Here in Milwaukee, the political pundits finally saw the thing they’ve been pleading for — unity — and what that really looks like. It looks a 6.6×180k2.5k87683
33Sep 7, '24This remarkable historic moment was buried on page A4 in the Washington Post.6.6×180k3.7k1.4k81
34Jul 9, '24NYT still front-paging a story on Biden and Parkinson’s based solely on innuendo and now thoroughly debunked by the White House.6.6×178k2.1k47730
35May 14, '24The @AP FTW! "It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker turning his Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundation6.4×173k2.1k97084
36Jul 11, '24WaPo finally gives Biden credit for "goldilocks economy" but only in the context that he's squandering it.6.2×167k1.8k35445
37Jul 30, '20Jaw-dropping and sickening: According to @KatherineEban @VanityFair, the White House DID actually come up with a decent national testing plan -- until it was killed for political r5.7×05.2k3.2k339
38Sep 30, '20This is big. The @nytimes goes there: "the most direct threat to the electoral process now comes from the president of the United States himself."5.7×06.9k3k123
39Dec 4, '21“My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy…Too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs, betw5.5×07.3k2.4k177
40Jul 30, '24WELL DONE NYT!5.2×141k1.7k42935
41Jun 15, '22Researchers combed through 45 million tweets that sowed doubt on the 2020 election. Here are the "top spreaders":5.1×03.5k1.8k426
42Jun 23, '22This pardon talk is a good reminder that in the days right after 1/6, everybody realized how illegal this whole thing was. Then the shocking -- and shockingly successful -- GOP PR 4.8×08.7k1.4k37
43Jan 28, '17New memo establishes Steve Bannon as member of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, typically off limits to political hacks4.8×02.4k3.5k0
44May 16, '22I hope political reporters will have enough guts to do stories like this over and over again until the stench of that repulsive theory is gone.4.7×06.8k2k62
45Nov 18, '23A truly despicable horserace story from WaPo, likening Biden's accurate statements about Trump with Trump's insane lies, and saying they're "taking shots at each other".4.4×120k1.5k36333
46Jun 27, '19CNN’s fact-checking team apparently somewhat dumbstruck by the lack of lies. So far: one “check” and it’s basically true.4.4×05.8k1.9k42
47Dec 8, '20Seriously what is the point in having reporters attend these things if not one stands up and says "NO YOU DIDN'T. STOP LYING. WHY ARE YOU LYING?"4.1×06.9k95236
48Oct 27, '22Why has no news organization run a major story saying "Republicans Have No Plausible Plan to Reduce Inflation". I mean seriously.3.9×05k1.9k13
49Mar 7, '22OMG she's an intern for the right-wing group that did the bogus poll that she cited. And notice the NYT sent a photographer down to illustrate her piece. So who set this up? @nytop3.8×06.1k1.2k172
50Nov 24, '20From the WH: "On Monday, November 30 starting at 7:00AM EST the Office of the First Lady will host a preview of the 2020 holiday décor at the White House.... The First Lady will no3.7×04.7k65126
51Jan 27, '22And “misinformation” is in quote marks why?3.7×07k67921
52Sep 17, '20The fact that every household in the US almost got 5 masks in the mail in April, until the WH killed it, ought to be a screamer headline everywhere. What other story hits home like3.4×04.5k1.7k38
53Jan 16, '22I just keep coming back to this: The Republican Party has gone stark-raving brown-shirt crazy but is still expected to win back Congress next year and political journalists are goi3.0×04.3k1.2k79
54Mar 4, '22Polls show the public thinks the U.S. lost jobs last year, when in fact it posted record-breaking job growth. Economic reporters should be ashamed.2.9×03.6k1.4k87
55Jul 2, '24There is cause for panic and I’m not seeing that properly reflected in the corporate media.2.9×78k1.5k29421
56Mar 4, '20From @RollingStone: how @soledadobrien became one of mainstream media’s most fiery critics. Or, as she puts it, “I’m in the service of telling people, ‘This is just bullshit. This 2.8×04.8k772120
57May 15, '20Truckers outside WH are protesting low freight rates, not pro Trump. Organizer: “This is our distress call to our commander in chief to address the problems we are facing. He has c2.7×02.9k1.4k42
58Sep 11, '24This headline does not accurately convey what happened last night, and everyone at the Washington Post should be embarrassed.2.6×72k1.9k30332
59Dec 3, '21It’s not a political party. McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms2.6×03.6k87459
60Apr 11, '19OK, major news organization reporters: You’ve had enough time to digest the unsealed Assange indictment to realize what a ridiculous stretch it is, how it relates to the noblest of2.5×03.5k1.2k8
61Apr 29, '22White House reporters are bored and frustrated: “For years covering the White House was a kind of golden ticket in the media. Then came the Biden administration.” 1/22.4×01.9k466211
62Jul 12, '22At some point in the last six years, our top newsroom leaders basically threw up their hands and gave up on calling out the crazy. They didn’t flinch as it got crazier and crazier 2.4×03.7k85930
63Oct 25, '20Topeka, Kansas, Capital-Journal, one of the very, very few newspapers that endorsed Trump in 2016, endorses Biden: "In these difficult times, after four years of chaos and confusio2.2×03.5k83119
64May 14, '22Writing this story deadpan, with paragraph after paragraph of unrefuted lies and lunacy, is criminally bad journalism.2.2×03.6k62356
65Jul 21, '17"he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns."2.0×02.1k9960
66Jan 22, '20CBS just hired Reince Priebus as a political analyst. In his first CBS interview in November, Priebus flat-out lied to @NorahODonnell and @MajorCBS --so baldly that CBS corrected h1.9×01.9k92112
67Sep 30, '21Meanwhile, every single Republican senator just voted to curtail assistance to Afghan refugees.1.9×02k97634
68May 14, '22When the No. 3 House Republican calls Democrats "pedo grifters" this is a front-page-worthy sign of the party's severe mental illness. NYT doesn't even mention it. WaPo writes "her1.9×02.7k69737
69Jan 23, '22Think about this. Respected party elder Newt Gingrich says that when Republicans regain Congress, they will weaponize oversight to go after their Democratic colleagues and get them1.8×02.5k68443
70Jun 18, '20Sotomayor dissents in part, says it wasn't just arbitrary and capricious but also wrong: "I would not so readily dismiss the allegation that an executive decision disproportionatel1.8×02.8k74618
71Apr 6, '22Absolutely crushed to learn that Eric Boehlert has died. His work had never been more essential. I grieve.1.8×03.7k3309
72Jun 2, '20Arrested for speech. Plain as day.1.7×01.9k95062
73Jul 17, '20Holy crap, Trump let loose the Border Patrol's thugs on Portland residents and @thenation's @kenklippenstein has the talking points to prove it!1.7×01.6k1k66
74Mar 7, '22The only thing newsworthy about Grassley saying that Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation shouldn't be rushed is that he didn't spontaneously explode from hypocrisy.1.7×02.7k6108
75Feb 9, '22Shocker! WaPo actually interviews "blue" suburban moms mobilizing to counter right-wing extremism at school board meetings.1.6×02.6k45552
76Apr 11, '19Julian #Assange has been charged with conspiracy to commit journalism. The free press has not ducked a bullet here; it’s taken one to the chest. 1/71.5×02k78725
77Mar 9, '22There is a powerful, important story the public needs to hear about how Big Oil is making windfall profits from high gas prices. Why aren't journalists telling it? Big Oil is charg1.5×02.1k63432
78Jul 3, '22Young women are the most pro reproductive freedom of any demographic, so cue this absolute bullshit disinformation from the NYT1.5×02.4k35246
79Nov 9, '22Our elite political reporters were partial to a Republican narrative because it insulated them from accusations of being liberal, which is their worst nightmare.1.5×02.4k44826
80Apr 9, '22WaPo holds Democrats to totally reasonable standards. (From today's front page.)1.4×02.4k31914
81May 27, '20Great stuff, including: "From Ms. Cooper’s lips, the president’s sentences become plywood bridges he’s trying to nail together, one shaky plank at a time, over a vertiginous Looney1.4×02.6k33029
82Feb 1, '19Disappointed in how normalizing NYT’s coverage of Trump interview was this morning. He was talking complete megalomaniacal gibberish, they make it sound like he was answering their1.3×01.9k5077
83Aug 26, '22Ron DeSantis is a fascist. The evidence is overwhelming. So maybe journalists should start explaining that to people instead of writing about his electability?1.3×01.7k59638
84Mar 5, '22A stunning example of how @nytimes political reporters literally don’t care whether what the GOP says is true, or fair. All they care about is whether it works or not. Written by a1.3×01.9k45731
85May 9, '20Seriously, this is Hunger Games shit here: ample testing and tracing for the ruling class; the rest of us are “warriors” who fight and die for the scraps.1.3×01.7k61312
86May 18, '20Do not report that Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine because he believes it helps. You CAN report that Trump SAYS he is taking it and that he frequently engages in magical thinkin1.2×02k4057
87Jun 19, '22Honestly I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more utterly bankrupt article than this in my life. “his continued stream of falsehoods highlights some of the complexities of pursuing any c1.2×01.8k36641
88Nov 2, '20NYT neglects to mention that farmer complaining about welfare state has received $446,163 in federal farm subsidies in the past 15 years:1.2×01.6k53322
89Mar 7, '22Is there any other way for a college student to break into the NYT op-ed pages than to write woke-panic claptrap like this? Complete with citation to bogus far-right-funded poll. A1.2×02k21654
90Mar 3, '20Ordering Elizabeth Warren to shut up is not a good look for @thenation.1.1×01.8k2898
91Dec 4, '18Nails it: Trump’s Moscow Deal Is Exactly What the Framers Worried About by @AshaRangappa_ via @politicomag1.1×01.5k46916
92Jun 4, '20Here’s the thing: The New York Times is an extraordinary institution full of amazing people doing incredible things every day, led by a handful of pompous poltroons who basically s1.1×01.7k3109
93May 4, '20The problem with headlines about “The Trump administration” is that there is no Trump administration. There’s Trump (changing minute by minute). There’s a haze of wildly triangulat1.1×01.7k38210
94Jul 6, '20Overt display of WHAT? JUST SAY IT.1.0×01.9k2546
95Jun 11, '21LEMON: You think we are dangerously close or are we already there? SWALWELL: Well, we had a president who abused his power, Don. Went after his political enemies. Sent a violent mo1.0×01.7k38515
96Nov 17, '21I'm pretty sure Politico never polled on whether Trump was "mentally fit." (Which he was not.) They appear to be doing GOP push polls now. Super.1.0×01.5k2989
97Jan 14, '22You know it’s not just Biden’s hopes, right, WaPo?1.0×01.7k24012
98Mar 30, '22This is headline-ese for "We dug really hard and basically got nothing, allow us to tell you all about it."0.9×01.5k28626
99Jan 23, '22So, so much wrong with this NYT story. If you're going to interview a dozen insurrectionists, try to figure out why they are so fucked up. Don't just quote their inanities. This is0.9×01.5k24416
100Jan 11, '22"Even Strom Thurmond came to support voting rights," Biden says. But not even one current Republican will buck Trump. This is a very good point.0.8×01.6k2168

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