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In the final days before the election, the Democratic Party aired a national ad accusing “Bush cronies,” Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove, and “shills for big business” of “stealing our democracy.” The spot depicted an old woman getting mugged. The image, though, was hackneyed, and the message simplistic. It was almost impossible to explain to the public
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
this point, it is impossible to say which of the Times’s reports and hopeful predictions about the Nazis was the most disturbing. What can be said is that already by 1935, a clear pattern had emerged in the New York Times’s reporting on Nazi Germany. While reports from the 1920s might have taken a “split-the-difference” approach to Hitler, by the 1
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
Yet while the Times sits on news of the FBI investigation into the Clinton charity, it finds it much more newsworthy that Trump’s charity paid $20,000 for a portrait of Trump. And the Times jumps on the news when New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman, a Clinton supporter, opens an aptly timed investigation into the Trump Foundation. In
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Phony empiricism in the service of being totally wrong is one of those grand American traditions, like tailgating or real estate speculation. Its perpetrators get to double their column inches, the first time in elaborate tautological error, the second time in grotesquely self-serving repentance Perversely, in admitting to being total id
... See moreBut Hannah-Jones’s Project, whether she realizes it or not, sits on pseudo-intellectual clouds; its raison d’être, which is to render a substantial moral judgment on American history, is therefore hopelessly compromised.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
The political nature of the selective outrage was obvious. The “tell” is how American Bridge and its allies easily overlooked Democrats embroiled in similar plagiarism scandals.