After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s...
After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire th...
Through the pandemic lockdown, I shared an evening ritual with a friend: a quick over-the-phone debrief about the episode of Jeopardy! we had both just watched,...
Through the pandemic lockdown, I shared an evening ritual wi...
Journalism has never been the most admired of professions, and in recent years the rap on its practitioners has only gotten worse.
Gallup puts trust in the Amer...
Journalism has never been the most admired of professions, a...
Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential candidacy, Donald Trump was an object of media fascination....
Long before he glided down that golden escalator at Trump To...
With so much news slamming us at every moment, it’s hard to see any of it as having enduring value. Who can even remember what happened last week?
But not ever...
With so much news slamming us at every moment, it’s hard to...
“Lock her up,” thundered the crowds. The bumper stickers went: “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly” with those adjectives, in order, over the Republican elephant symbo...
“Lock her up,” thundered the crowds. The bumper stickers wen...
How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to the 2016 presidential election? Let me count the ways.
Journalists relied too much on what opinion ...
How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to...
Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced re...
Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican ne...
Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow.
“Gobsmacked” was how one Youngstown reader described her horrifie...
Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community...
The day of the New Orleans Saints’ home opener in 2013, fans arrived at the Superdome to find a special edition of The Advocate draped over every seat.
The news...
The day of the New Orleans Saints’ home opener in 2013, fans...
It never should have taken a photo of Colbie Holderness’s bruised eye to get Rob Porter out of the White House.
He shouldn’t have been there as a top aide to Pr...
It never should have taken a photo of Colbie Holderness’s br...
Roy Moore’s spokeswoman had a nasty name for reporters covering the Alabama Senate race: “The lynch-mob media.”
Stephen Bannon, the President’s deposed Svengali...
Roy Moore’s spokeswoman had a nasty name for reporters cover...
In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day brings a new low. I don’t mean Roy Moore’s campaign for the United States Senate, although that cer...
In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day...
I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.
Like the word “inappropriate”, which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, th...
I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.
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Does Donald Trump believe in the well-established role of the press in American democracy? It certainly doesn’t look that way. In recent months, his staff has r...
Does Donald Trump believe in the well-established role of th...
