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Dan Froomkin

The elite media sees impeachment as a problem — for Democrats

By Dan Froomkin

Mar 1, 2019

The elite media sees impeachment as a problem — for Democrats

Mar 1, 2019

Dan Froomkin

The Link Is the Message: It’s Time to Reverse the Polarity of the Internet for News

What made sense 20 years ago doesn’t make sense now. Facebook and Google should be paying for our headlines.

Feb 4, 2019

The Link Is the Message: It’s Time to Reverse the Polarity of the Internet for News

Feb 4, 2019

Dan Froomkin

When Trump blows hard, the daily news coverage is way too soft

Books and op-eds have lately been helping the public more fully grasp just how dysfunctional, deceitful and amoral the Trump White House…

Sep 12, 2018

When Trump blows hard, the daily news coverage is way too soft

Sep 12, 2018

Dan Froomkin

The Purloined Letter Solves the Case of the Mysterious ‘Resistance’

Exhibit A in support of Trump insiders’ efforts to “control his impulses and prevent disasters” is the letter Gary Cohn stole off his desk.

Sep 7, 2018

The Purloined Letter Solves the Case of the Mysterious ‘Resistance’

Sep 7, 2018

Dan Froomkin

How the Los Angeles Times could beat the New York Times in Washington: By covering politics with a…

The once-mighty Los Angeles Times Washington bureau is a shade of its former self. A total of 15 reporters and editors toil where not so…

Jul 16, 2018

How the Los Angeles Times could beat the New York Times in Washington: By covering politics with a…

Jul 16, 2018

Dan Froomkin

Obama Wanted to ‘Look Forward, Not Backward’ on Torture, But He Failed to Look Either Way

Here is some of what I wrote for the Huffington Post almost 7 years ago, about how Obama’s inexplicable (to me) refusal to hold Bush-era…

Mar 13, 2018

Obama Wanted to ‘Look Forward, Not Backward’ on Torture, But He Failed to Look Either Way

Mar 13, 2018

Dan Froomkin

Two Pinnochios for an MIT study on Fake News

My reaction to this study published in Science: It earned simply massive media coverage.Here are the authors.

Mar 9, 2018

Two Pinnochios for an MIT study on Fake News

Mar 9, 2018

Dan Froomkin

No, the New York Times isn’t giving Trump fans too much attention.

Today’s New York Times story “Most Americans Want Legal Status for ‘Dreamers.’ These People Don’t.” is being appropriately mocked on social…

Jan 25, 2018

No, the New York Times isn’t giving Trump fans too much attention.

Jan 25, 2018

Dan Froomkin

Donald Trump Is Telling Us He’s Guilty as Hell

A thought exercise:

Aug 4, 2017

Donald Trump Is Telling Us He’s Guilty as Hell

Aug 4, 2017

Dan Froomkin

Talking to survivors of the SS St. Louis

Back in 1989, when I was a reporter for the Miami Herald, I interviewed many of the 27 survivors of the SS St. Louis. They said their story…

Jan 28, 2017

Jan 28, 2017

Dan Froomkin

Dan Froomkin

Editor of Press Watch, at presswatchers.org. Online news pioneer at the Washington Post, Huffington Post, the Intercept.

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