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Editor of Press Watch () ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancing. I afflict comfortable journalists. @froomkin .bsky.social

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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Barr's disrespect for non-white questioners is so blatant it should be a main element of the news coverage.
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2 years
Now updated with truth-telling from @JohnJHarwood , which was followed moments later by his departure from CNN.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
NEW from me: Was Biden right? Or was Biden wrong? The national media won’t say
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
Some 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 is worse than they were, or that Biden has less right to pick his staff than Trump did.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Good 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 searing, as disturbing as any hour of congressional hearing I have ever witnessed."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Presidential 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 Reed doctors, or this means nothing.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Now 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 one of this last live shots to send a message," the source told me. .
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Now updated with truth-telling from @JohnJHarwood , which was followed moments later by his departure from CNN.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
This 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 pushback began,
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
8 months
In 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, actually, worse than the CNN town hall in terms of normalizing a maniac.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
“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, between fact and fiction. It’s time to take a stand.” Amen, ⁦ @Milbank ⁩!
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
And “misinformation” is in quote marks why?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
I 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.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
Seriously 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?"
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Aaron Rupar
3 years
"Well, we're gonna have to see who the next administration is ... hopefully the next administration will be the Trump administration ... we were rewarded with a victory" -- Trump is still lying about his election loss
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
OMG 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? @nytopinion , we deserve to know.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Is 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. And hello, this is UVA we're talking about, I call bs.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
5 years
CNN’s fact-checking team apparently somewhat dumbstruck by the lack of lies. So far: one “check” and it’s basically true.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
7 months
Hey WaPo, why are you still writing “alleged” when the judge has already ruled that it was fraud?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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The New York Times needs an intervention.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Why has no news organization run a major story saying "Republicans Have No Plausible Plan to Reduce Inflation". I mean seriously.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Jaw-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 reasons, among them that the virus was then ravaging blue states
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
From @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 is just not true.’” I’m a fan.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
From 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 not be in attendance. "
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
I 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 going yeah, OK, instead of going WHAT THE FUCK??? AAAAH!
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
The 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 like that?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Who killed the Postal Service's plan to send 650 million masks to Americans during the early part of the pandemic? Because they killed a lot of people, too. (And thank you @weareoversight for unearthing this.)
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
At 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 and crazier. The Jan. 6 committee is now showing us what a terrible mistake that was.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
It’s not a political party. McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Absolutely crushed to learn that Eric Boehlert has died. His work had never been more essential. I grieve.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 months
The 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 Biden hunters have managed to come up with," writes @LucianKTruscott
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Polls 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.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Researchers combed through 45 million tweets that sowed doubt on the 2020 election. Here are the "top spreaders":
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Topeka, 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 confusion, the United States needs a steady hand."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 months
Why 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:
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
5 years
OK, 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 of his leaks, and how it’s chilling to journalism. Please say so.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Truckers 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 called us heroes — his heroes need his help now.”
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
When 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 "her tweet drew criticism for the insinuation that she may be appealing to promoters of disinformation."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Sotomayor 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 disproportionately harms the same racial group that the President branded as less desirable mere months earlier."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
The 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.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Think 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 them thrown in jail. That's what a fascist party does. Get it?
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Ron Filipkowski
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Newt Gingrich said this morning that people serving on the J6 Committee are going to go to jail if Republicans take over Congress after the next election.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Young women are the most pro reproductive freedom of any demographic, so cue this absolute bullshit disinformation from the NYT
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Our elite political reporters were partial to a Republican narrative because it insulated them from accusations of being liberal, which is their worst nightmare.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
WaPo holds Democrats to totally reasonable standards. (From today's front page.)
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Great 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 Looney Tunes canyon"
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
7 years
New memo establishes Steve Bannon as member of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, typically off limits to political hacks
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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"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 propaganda machine," says the fearless editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
7 years
"he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax returns."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
There 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 charging outrageous prices because they can, not because it's any more expensive to produce. 1/2
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
CBS 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 him. Awesome hire.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Is 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. And hello, this is UVA we're talking about, I call bs.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Do 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 thinking rather than attempt to actually govern.
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David Waldman - @KagroX.bsky.social
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Trump is not taking hydroxychloroquine. This has been another episode of How to Read a Trump Comment.™
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
5 years
Disappointed 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 their questions.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
11 months
I 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? 1/3
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
A 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 alums of Politico and Hotline, respectively.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
White 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.” 1/2
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Overt display of WHAT? JUST SAY IT.
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Maggie Haberman
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The president's attack on Bubba Wallace and his defense of the confederate flag were an overt display aimed at his white base of supporters, after a weekend during which he stuck to the script at his official events and broadly described "history"
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Ordering Elizabeth Warren to shut up is not a good look for @thenation .
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"Warren must recognize that at this point in the race, any criticism by her of Sanders or his record only benefits their common enemies. Solidarity is a virtue that must be practiced as well as preached."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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Honestly 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 criminal case against him”????? This thinking would have exonerated Hitler.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Here’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 sabotage the entire enterprise
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Arrested for speech. Plain as day.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Ron DeSantis is a fascist. The evidence is overwhelming. So maybe journalists should start explaining that to people instead of writing about his electability?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
You know it’s not just Biden’s hopes, right, WaPo?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Seriously, 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.
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Greg Sargent
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Kayleigh McEnany gave away the game today. She told reporters that the White House is operating safely, *because it has testing and tracing.* But Trump won't create the robust federal testing regime that would allow the rest of us to have that. New piece:
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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I'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 then make it available all week.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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I want to see a CNN that identifies what the public misunderstands the most, then throws everything it's got at helping the public understand it better.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
5 years
Julian #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. 1/7
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
The 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 triangulating lickspittles. And there’s the career folks, struggling to do their jobs.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
10 months
"Who are you trying to help?" is a great question. Journalists should ask it more often.
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Acyn
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Buttigieg on DeSantis video: I'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled up shirtless body builders..
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
LEMON: 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 mob to try to kill his political enemies to overturn an election. So, yes, we're already there.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
"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.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
5 years
Nails it: Trump’s Moscow Deal Is Exactly What the Framers Worried About by @AshaRangappa_ via @politicomag
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
This is headline-ese for "We dug really hard and basically got nothing, allow us to tell you all about it."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Holy crap, Trump let loose the Border Patrol's thugs on Portland residents and @thenation 's @kenklippenstein has the talking points to prove it!
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
NYT neglects to mention that farmer complaining about welfare state has received $446,163 in federal farm subsidies in the past 15 years:
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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NYT flies into Nebraska to interview the most sympathetic Trump-supporter they could find, and disgustingly euphemizes obvious retrograde white nationalism as "sense of Trumpian kinship".
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
So, 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 is the NYT equivalent of a freak show at the circus. 1/x
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
I'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.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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A 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".
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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Top story on NBC Nightly News: Hunter Biden. Second story: Trump on Hunter Biden. Effing nightmare.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
8 months
Trump tells Welker "You mean because I challenge an election, they want to put me in jail?" and there's no sign of pushback either in person or in the story. Gah. Massive journalistic failure.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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As one WaPo commenter put it: "I am sick and tired of articles that seem to absolve the Republicans of their own idiocy and then blame the Democrats for not protecting us from the harm caused by Republicans."
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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They’re not “conservative”, they’re extremist. And they are doing great damage to real people, not “flexing their strength“. This is like a game to the Washington Post.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
7 years
WH statement on firing Yates. I think this was written by Trump himself. It’s that childish.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
This is a godawful @AP take in every way. No, the news about the 10-year-old didn't ignite a "media conflagration"; right wingers and their enablers who attacked it did. And no, the little girl was not "suddenly thrown into a political fight." Gah.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
That is a stunningly pejorative and condescending word: inarticulate. Did WaPo ever call Trump that? Or Dubya? Because they were often incomprehensible.
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Tyler Pager
2 years
Biden's line tonight saying Putin "cannot remain in power" was NOT planned and a surprise to U.S. officials, per people familiar. Still, officials say no change in policy. Instead, the line was an example of Biden's sometimes inarticulate rhetoric.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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The one day there actually should be a Hunter Biden story on the NYT homepage: bupkus.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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Biden "thinks that the press has failed to take full stock of Trump’s menace. 'It’s like you’ve all become numbed by it.'"
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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You couldn't ask for a clearer example of why reporters shouldn't trust the police. But they just can't stop themselves.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
1 year
This, from Ashley Parker (who blocks me) is what's wrong with American political journalism. I would like to see WaPo management publicly renounce this:
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
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This should be a screaming headline along with a straightforward explanation of how vaccines work. It would be a double public service. So why not, NYT? WAPO? AP?
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Barbara Comstock
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Trump said in Richmond, that he will take all federal funds away from public schools that require vaccines. Like most states, Virginia requires MMR vaccine, chickenpox vaccine, polio, etc. So Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
If Americans by a 2-1 margin or more say they are willing to pay more for gas if that's what it takes to sanction Russia, then why, when it happens, does the media treat it like the end of the world?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
More toxic hyperbole about gas prices -- now on NBC's Nightly News. It's deceitful and hysterical to feature a crazy outlier like this.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
This WaPo article by @ToluseO reads like a dam broke in the newsroom and all the things reporters have been wanting to write about Trump spilled out. IT'S FABULOUS. It's full of truths, no bothesidesism, nothing mealy-mouthed about it. MORE PLEASE!
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
1 year
NYT, which completely MISSED THIS STORY IN THEIR BACK YARD when it mattered, now taking credit. Beautiful.
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Maggie Haberman
1 year
Here is the piece by @migold and @gr_ashford that started the long saga of George Santos, the congressman who's being taken into custody this morning for wire fraud and money laundering
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Thought exercise: If the national media had been accurately describing Trump -- as a pathologically lying narcissistic proto-fascist con-man -- from the get-go, would any of this have happened?
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
This is not normal behavior so perhaps it shouldn't be covered as if it were.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
4 years
Staff @abcnews should demand withdrawal of David Wright’s suspension. His cardinal sin was being honest about how his bosses “don't see an upside in doing the job we're supposed to do, which is speak truth to power and hold people to account.” WATCH THIS:
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
3 years
WHO WROTE THIS HEADLINE AND SUBHEAD?? They’re not just unspeakably and inappropriately snide and ideological, they don’t remotely reflect the story as written. Was this the work of a rogue, or a senior editor? Either way the reporters are owed an apology.
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 months
"if President Joe Biden were losing 40 percent of Democratic primary voters, the media reaction would be a cascade of exploding takes so hot and bright, they could birth a new galaxy" writes @RadioFreeTom
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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
2 years
Put the name of the anti-voting pro-disease-spreading political party in the main headline, you cowards.
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