Category: Media Matters - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Media Matters
Media Matters
by | Feb 25, 2024

What the pluck? Is that still a question? Or, is it now a matter of who gets to do the plucking? An insidious ensemble is strumming American heartstrings. Dictatorial DJs are calling the tunes of public emotion. They only bring…

by | Jan 20, 2024

For sixty years, the Supreme Court has required “public figures” to prove that a media outlet acted with “actual malice”— that is, intent to publish false information or reckless disregard for publishing it — in order to recover damages for…

by | Jan 20, 2024

WASHINGTON — When The Associated Press called Monday’s Iowa caucus for Donald Trump around 5:30 p.m. Pacific — a half-hour into the voting and before many Iowa Republicans had cast their ballots — it must have felt like a slap…

by | Dec 16, 2023

When considering political violence and its validity, matters of degree, intent, and scope are of vital importance. As we celebrate the Boston Tea Party, it’s worth delineating why the Bostonians’ actions have merit while many other forms of destructive protest…

by | Nov 26, 2023

If one has read only the New York Times in the past week, it would be easy to think the most high-profile antisemite in America is Republican billionaire Elon Musk.  I counted 11 articles from the paper since Nov. 15…

by | Nov 22, 2023

For a couple of days, it looked as though Martha Stewart, of all people, had given up on Thanksgiving. She announced her surrender on a television talk show (naturally), saying: “I gave up Thanksgiving. I canceled … nine guests canceled…

by | Nov 13, 2023

I just finished reading Thomas Mallon’s fine historical novel Fellow Travelers and now look forward to seeing the Showtime mini-series that it inspired. Against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, these works concern the Lavender Scare: Gay Americans in the federal government were targeted as…

by | Oct 22, 2023

We have brilliant conservative heroines in the media and journalism, and thus in politics (the most germane herein is the “stick-your-neck- out” political subset); this begs the question: are we paying enough attention to them? I highlight below three women…

by | Sep 27, 2023

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by | Aug 23, 2023
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