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Congratulations, America. Victory Against Infowars!

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Dear Morning Joe (the sequel):

This morning, Joe Scarborough spent almost 20 minutes defending himself against the latest accusation of coziness with Donald Trump after Twitter maestro Sopan Deb (ex CBS, next NYT) accused him of partying with Donald Trump on New Year’s Eve. In fact, Scarborough was at Mar…

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A Postmortem for Journalism

Journalism must grapple with its responsibility in this election, its failure to inform and educate the public, and its culpability in helping to create and feed the phenomenon that has now taken over our nation. Then we can consider whether and how it could be rebuilt. I am not…

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Empathetic Journalism for the Right

I’ve said — to the horror of surprisingly few journalists I know — that the mere fact of Donald…

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How Trump’s mere existence delegitimizes Clinton’s candidacy and presidency — and what we must do about that

I can hear it now, starting on Nov. 9:

Hillary Clinton isn’t really the President. She got elected only because she ran…

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News Judgment

Note the volume of Google news searches here, which reflects the volume of news coverage. Two of these stories are documented scandals; one is not.

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‘Change’ is bullshit

I ended up voting for Barack Obama, but while he was in a race against Hillary Clinton his campaign slogan drove me to…

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Further Specimens of Old Journalism

I’m gratified (and relieved) by the reaction to my profession of partisanship in this election and sorry conclusions about the state of journalism, receiving a surprising number of approving tweets from news folk I respect.